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Troops on the border: ‘We have to adapt every night to every scenario’

For New Hampshire National Guard members deployed to the Texas border, securing 1 1/2 miles along the Rio Grande is logistically, emotionally hard.

By Annmarie Timmins, New Hampshire Bulletin

3 weeks ago

New Hampshire National Guard encounters new challenges at Texas border

Backed by $850,000 in state funding, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu deployed 15 National Guard members to assist Texas' border security mission.

By Annmarie Timmins, New Hampshire Bulletin

4 weeks ago

13 Marines charged with offenses related to alleged human smuggling operations

The charges involved include failure to obey an order, drunkenness, endangerment offenses, larceny, perjury and general article or Article 134.

5 years ago

About a mile of new wall built each day along Mexico border, Pentagon says

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded about $2.5 billion in projects in April and May to build 129 miles of the border wall in New Mexico, Arizona and California.

By Military Times staff

5 years ago

Defense spending bill hits border wall in Senate

Senate Democrats blocked Republican plans to advance an appropriations package including $693 billion in defense spending.

By Leo Shane III and Joe Gould

5 years ago

The Pentagon is canceling three border wall projects because the costs went up

Three sections of wall in Arizona are out for now.

By Meghann Myers

5 years ago

This week in Congress: Budget deadline looms

Defense and Capitol Hill hearings for the week of Sept. 16, 2019.

By Leo Shane III

5 years ago

Senate Dems lose border wall skirmish as defense spending bill advances

Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced its $693 billion defense spending bill to the Senate floor and scuttled a Democratic measure to bar Pentagon funds from being diverted to President Donald Trump’s border wall.

5 years ago

450 miles of Pentagon-funded border wall by next year? In Arizona, it starts

On a dirt road past rows of date trees, just feet from a dry section of Colorado River, a small construction crew is putting up a towering border wall that the government hopes will reduce — for good — the flow of immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

5 years ago

Border wall showdown looms over Senate’s Pentagon spending bill

Senate Republican plans to quickly pass spending bills over the next few weeks seemed to hit a rough patch Tuesday as Democrats pushed to rebuke President Donald Trump’s diversion of military construction funding to the border wall.

5 years ago

To set up ‘safe zone,’ US wades into muddled Syria politics

U.S. flags fluttered on the back of coalition armored vehicles as they whizzed past tiny hamlets in northeastern Syria. Once part of the sprawling territories controlled by the Islamic State group, the areas are now under threat of an attack from Turkey, which considers these villages’ liberators, the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish-led forces, to be terrorists.

5 years ago

Trump drains US spending in Europe to pay for wall with Mexico

The White House is being criticized for a plan to move Pentagon spending meant to deter Russia to the U.S.-Mexico border wall project.

By Joe Gould, Sebastian Sprenger and Valerie Insinna

5 years ago