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Mexico's president has begun exploring plans to sidestep congress to hand formal control of the National Guard to the army

A bipartisan group of lawmakers filed legislation to create a Military Housing Readiness Council to monitor housing quality.

WASHINGTON — Democrats in both chambers are vowing to resist GOP attempts to halt Defense Department training aimed at countering extremist groups’ attempts to influence service members.

Democrats are vowing to resist GOP attempts to halt Defense Department training aimed at countering extremist groups.

WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee has called on the Defense Department to halt its programs to prevent and root out extremism in the ranks.

The Senate Armed Services Committee has called on the Defense Department to halt programs to prevent and root out extremism in the ranks.

Defense Department appropriations legislation for the current fiscal year funded more than $58 billion worth of military projects that the administration did not request, according to a first-of-its-kind Pentagon report.

Additions made by Congress to the Defense Department's budget included money for disaster response, the war in Ukraine, ships and more.

WASHINGTON — The House takes up its annual National Defense Authorization Act this week, and the most consequential amendments may or may not be the ones that generate the most rhetorical heat.

The most consequential amendments on the defense policy bill may or may not be the ones that draw the most rhetorical heat.

A Virgin Orbit rocket carrying seven US Defense Department satellites was launched from a special Boeing 747 flying off the Southern California coast and streaked toward space Friday night. The modified jumbo jet took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in the Mojave Desert and released the rocket over…