By Debbie Gregory. As the September 30th deadline to fund the federal government approaches and Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are locked in a stalemate over a budget agreement to keep the government open, the White House and Senate Democratic leadership signaled that they would be open to a short-term spending bill to avoid […]
By Debbie Gregory. On September 18th, California Governor Jerry Brown announced the appointment of the new secretary of the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet). Colonel Vito Imbasciani, a 69-year-old Los Angeles urologic surgeon and Kaiser Permanente executive, is poised to fill the position left vacant by the previous acting secretary, Debbie Endsley. Endsley was […]
By Debbie Gregory. If confirmed by the Senate, the first openly gay US Army secretary, Eric Fanning, could help lead America’s corps of fighting men and women into uncharted territory, on many fronts. President Obama is nominating Eric K. Fanning, a close civilian adviser to Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter, to be the secretary of […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Iran nuclear deal will leave Tehran as a growing power and require the United States to increase its spending on the military, according to four House Republicans Rep. Mac Thornberry, Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) all House Armed Services Committee members, expressed this […]
By Debbie Gregory. When the Air Force sought to honor Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone for his heroic actions in stopping a terrorist gunman on a French train this summer, the options were limited. Since the incident occurred in the French countryside, far from any declared combat zones, Stone was not eligible for traditional valor […]
By Debbie Gregory. One might not expect the Pentagon to have a branch office. But the Silicon Valley area of California is now home to just that. The Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental, or DIUx for short, has begun operations near Moffett Federal Airfield’s WWII-era airship hangars. The DIUx director, George Duchak, is joined by Rear Adm. […]
By Debbie Gregory. USA Discounters’ ads used to say, “Bad Credit? Slow Credit? No Credit? No Problem!” The company sought out service members and their families, placing their stores in close proximity to military bases. But the easy lending had a flip side. Customers who fell behind in their payment then had to deal with […]
By Debbie Gregory. Chinese companies and individuals who have benefited from their government’s cybertheft of valuable U.S. trade secrets made be feeling a financial pinch, as the White House prepares economic sanctions. Suspicions that Chinese hackers were behind a series of data breaches in the United States have been an irritant in relations between the […]
By Debbie Gregory. The U.S. has warned China that covert agents tasked with hunting down alleged Chinese fugitives across the globe are not welcome in America. The Obama administration has delivered a warning to Beijing about the presence of Chinese government agents operating secretly in the United States to return home immediately. U.S. diplomats previously […]
By Debbie Gregory. Hackers released compromising details on thousands of military personnel who were users of the adultery website AshleyMadison.com. The registered email addresses, names, addresses and phone numbers and financial information submitted by users of the website that promotes marital affairs, were part of a recent data dump by hackers who stole the sensitive […]
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