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WASHINGTON – Just before lawmakers headed home for the holidays, they passed a 3.8% pay raise for all military service members. The wage increase, effective Jan. 1, 2026, was one of several key ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul cast the measure in unusually personal terms, saying she had felt “the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.” By Grace Ashford Reporting from ...

The Senate on Wednesday passed a major policy bill authorizing $900.6 billion in discretionary spending for the Pentagon. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) The Senate on Wednesday passed a major policy bill ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is on the verge of full federal recognition after the Senate on Dec. 17 approved a $900 billion defense policy bill, titled the National Defense Authorization Act.

The version passed by the House would cut $1.6 billion in climate-related spending and another $40 million in DEI efforts. This week, the Senate is set to take up the $900 billion National Defense ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, our Nation was conceived in liberty, our freedom was wrested from the hands of tyranny, and our people courageously united as one Nation under God, committed to the ...

WASHINGTON — The House voted to pass a sweeping defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes $900 billion in military programs, including a pay raise for troops and an overhaul of how the Department ...

The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act Wednesday, punting the yearly legislation that governs Pentagon spending to the Senate. The vote was 312 to 112, with 18 Republicans and 94 ...

Lawmakers aim to send the bill, which authorizes $8 billion more than the White House requested, to the president’s desk by the end of the year. By Megan Mineiro Reporting from Washington The House is ...

Bill Nye: Cornell University alum, Boeing engineer, comedian, and, yes, the center of the breakout series Bill Nye the Science Guy. The children's educational series, first airing in 1993, became one ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was instrumental in engineering the psychoactive hemp ban in the recent spending bill to reopen the government. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty ...