by Kelsey Baker | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON– House lawmakers agreed Thursday that they want to limit the many US military actions underway across the world. But there’s little consensus on how to reform the laws that have authorized all of those military operations. “War should not be on autopilot,”...
by Phillip Powell | Sep 28, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress and top experts disagreed yesterday about whether the Biden administration has been complying with the Trump-era law to withhold economic assistance from the Palestinian Authority. The 2018 Taylor Force Act ended economic aid for...
by Catherine Buchaniec | May 2, 2022 | Featured, National Security
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — At a pretrial hearing in the case against the accused mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, a former Army interrogator — nicknamed the “King of Torture” — said he subjected a prisoner held at Bagram prison in...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured, National Security
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 27 (UPI) — Defense lawyers who represent the accused mastermind behind the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole sought Wednesday to limit testimony from federal agents who interviewed an alternative suspected organizer of the attack. The...
by Julia Shapero | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Washington Sen. Patty Murray is helping lead efforts to restrict arms sales to countries accused of human rights violations after years of congress facing weakened control over weapons sales. Murray recently reintroduced the Values in Arms Export Act, a...
by Catherine Buchaniec | Mar 18, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Brunswick, called on the Senate this week to pass comprehensive legislation expanding health care access for U.S. service members and veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while deployed at overseas military bases....
