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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani stressed on Friday the importance of his country’s ties with the United States. Iraq is seeking balanced ties with its regional and international environment in a way that preserves national sovereignty, he said as he welcomed a US Congress delegation headed by Senator Mark…

LOS ANGELES — Rep. Ken Calvert, the longest-serving Republican member of California’s congressional delegation, won reelection in Riverside County despite being drawn into a less favorable district during the decennial reconfiguring of congressional maps.

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

"Excellent," said comedian and campaigner Jon Stewart after the House passed the bill in a 342-88 vote.

Servicemembers who contracted any of 23 conditions after serving in combat zones would be eligible for health care and disability benefits.

The issue of burn pits was given more airtime than voting rights, gun violence and abortion in Biden’s SOTU address. Two days later, the House passed sweeping burn pits legislation. Rachel Sharp hears from veterans, lawmakers and advocates about whether America’s sick and dying soldiers are finally being heard

Congress appears likely to pass legislation that would make millions more veterans eligible for disability and health care benefits.

GOP leaders seem unlikely to abandon nods to the conspiracy theory even though it was cited by the alleged perpetrator of a racist mass murder

House Democrats teed up final passage of the biggest expansion of veterans benefits in decades for vets exposed to toxic substances.