The following piece was originally published in The Hill by John Shkor, Steven Lepper and William Baumgartner. Read the original article here. President Trump has…
The American Watch Dog
Every few years, Congress makes decisions about military spending that shape the future of American national security — decisions made by elected officials who answer directly to voters. The U.S. Army's next-generation tiltrotor aircraft, the MV-75 Cheyenne II, sits at the center of one of the most significant — and expensive — defense investments in recent memory, and whether it gets built on schedule depends heavily on whether Congress can pass a budget.
American politics runs on a tidy script: white evangelicals vote red, Catholics split down the middle, and immigration is one of the sharpest wedges between…
For millions of American families, the pinch at the pump and the sticker shock at the grocery store checkout have become all too familiar — and the latest federal data confirms it is not letting up.
What began as a single arrest at a Tempe, Arizona high school has grown into one of the most serious school-based voyeurism cases in recent memory. Investigators have now identified dozens of victims and added nearly 100 new criminal charges against a former school employee.
When missiles strike a city's power grid, the first headlines count casualties and report blackouts — but the quieter crisis unfolds in hospital corridors, dialysis chairs, and homes where someone depends on a ventilator to breathe through the night. That is the reality unfolding in Ukraine right now, as Russia continues to hammer civilian energy infrastructure for the third consecutive night, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power and pushing an already strained healthcare system toward the breaking point.
For military families, healthcare access is never just about proximity to a hospital — it depends on satellites, communications infrastructure, and the trained personnel who keep those systems running. A major shift in how the Army builds and retains its space workforce could have lasting consequences for the health security and family stability of hundreds of thousands of service members and their dependents.
A $53 pair of Levi's at a Fred Meyer in Wasilla, Alaska, may seem like an unlikely starting point for understanding the stakes of this fall's Senate elections — but it captures something essential about the political moment.
For decades, a quiet Army program gave newly minted soldiers a chance to go home — and in exchange, the military asked them to help spread the word about service. Now, that arrangement is on the chopping block, raising questions about how the Army connects with communities across the country and what it costs when those connections fall short.
Most cancers in the United States are caught too late — partly because millions of Americans have no routine screening option available to them at all. A newly published study suggests a single blood test could change that, scanning the body for signs of multiple cancers at the same time.
At 40 degrees below zero, almost everything fails — batteries go dead, fuel lines freeze, and even the most sophisticated military technology can grind to a halt. For the families of soldiers stationed in Alaska with the U.S. Army's 11th Airborne Division, that extreme reality is not a temporary deployment hardship — it's daily life, and it shapes everything from how soldiers train to how they find their footing far from home.
A day at one of Georgia's most popular theme parks turned deadly when an incident on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia left one person dead and four others injured. Incidents like this raise urgent questions about amusement park safety standards and what riders and families should know before stepping into a theme park.
Most people picture fireflies lighting up warm summer evenings in the South or Midwest — not the Sonoran Desert. But a new report from the Nature Conservancy confirms that Arizona is home to multiple firefly species, and knowing exactly where and when to look can make all the difference.