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Pentagon stages first ‘Top Drone’ school for operators to hone skills
Industry and military drone operators flew tethered and untethered first-person drones through a course designed to test endurance and maneuverability.
US promises up to $60M for anti-extremist force in Africa
The U.S. pledged up to $60 million Monday to help a 5,000-soldier African force get going on fighting extremists in western Africa’s vast Sahel region, but Washington remains cool to putting U.N. resources into the nearly $500 million-a-year effort as Sahel countries look to the world body for financing.
After 16 years, congressional debate on military force authorizations remains stalled
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis testified before senators Monday that a new force authorization in the war on terror would be welcome, but isn't needed.
Senators to press Tillerson and Mattis on new war authority
President Donald Trump’s national security brain trust faces Congress on the need for a new war authorization as the deadly ambush in Niger is igniting a push among many lawmakers to update the legal parameters for combat operations overseas.
This week in Congress: Mattis and the AUMF debate
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of October 30, 2017.
Schumer: It’s time for Congress to re-examine war authorizations
The Senate’s top Democrat says he favors a re-examination of the country’s war authorization amid controversy surrounding the deaths of four U.S. troops in Niger.
By Joe Gould
Tillerson seeks Arab help in US effort to isolate Iran
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took the Trump administration’s case for isolating and containing Iran in the Middle East and beyond to two Gulf Arab nations on Sunday.
North Korea says 'a nuclear war may break out any moment'
North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula “has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment.”
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press
Interview: Rep. Mike Turner's take on what's to blame for a track record of failure in Army programs
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee and a former mayor of Dayton, offers his take on the future of Army IT networks, space wars, and the real threat from budget standoffs.
By Joe Gould
Trump's jibe deepens feud with Tillerson; he was joking?
President Donald Trump challenged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to “compare IQ tests,” delivering a sharp-edged ribbing that threw a bright spotlight on his seemingly shaky relationship with his top diplomat. The White House insisted the president was only joking.
By Jonathan Lemire, The Associated Press
White House seeks to move past Trump/Tillerson friction
The Trump administration sought Thursday to move past the brouhaha over Rex Tillerson’s reported insult of his boss, making clear President Donald Trump alone sets the nation’s agenda that his advisers must execute.
By Bradley Klapper, The Associated Press