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Slain Marine’s family plans to refile lawsuit against Alec Baldwin
Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum was killed at age 20 during the 2021 suicide attack in Kabul.
A Wyoming farewell for Marine killed in Afghanistan bombing
Dozens of U.S. fellow Marines attended a memorial for Rylee McCollum, one of 13 U.S. servicemen killed in a suicide bombing as they guarded a gate at a chaotic Kabul, Afghanistan airport.
Daughter born to widow of Marine killed in Afghanistan bombing
An 8-pound, 10-ounce Levi Rylee Rose McCollum arrived on Monday.
By Philip Athey
Wyoming troop deaths 20 years apart bookend Afghanistan war
Edmunds and McCollum were both killed on their first deployments. In between, almost 2,500 U.S. troops died in the Afghanistan war.
By Thomas Peipert
Defense top line ‘will probably go up’: Key Dems see GOP boost as path to a deal
“The people who want to spend more than the Biden number have built a lot of support, and yes, I think that is a potential bipartisan pathway,” says House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith. “I don’t support it, I don’t think that’s where we should go, but at the end of the day, I have one vote.”
By Joe Gould
Proposal to guarantee minimum-wage salaries for all troops fizzles
House leadership promised to look into the idea of at least $15 an hour in base pay for every service member.
House appropriators advance $706 billion defense spending bill
The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $706 billion defense spending bill for fiscal 2022 over the objections of panel Republicans.
By Joe Gould
Lawmakers champion China deterrence fund, but not Biden’s version
Fifteen House lawmakers are calling on appropriators to fully fund a $4.7 billion request for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative amid criticism President Joe Biden’s new defense budget submission has missed the mark.
By Joe Gould
Pentagon budget will shake up ‘legacy’ systems. Lawmakers are shaking back.
Top Pentagon officials are asking Congress to let them use the upcoming budget to shed unneeded weapons in order to invest in forward-looking technologies now. It wasn't an easy conversation.
By Joe Gould
Bernie Sanders unveils resolution to stop $735M arms sale to Israel
The senator has introduced a resolution that would, if passed, block the pending sale of $735 million in arms to Israel amid its widening fight with Hamas.
By Joe Gould