If the Senate Appropriations Committee has its way, Pakistan’s military assistance package will be docked $33 million— $1 million for every year the doctor who assisted the U.S. in tracking down Osama bin Laden sits in a Pakistani jail.
In a highly unusual move, the Army's commanding general at Fort Bliss publicly retracted blunt comments about suicide that drew criticism for appearing to deride troops struggling with serious mental problems.
Improving school lunches and nutrition education are a key way to get Americans healthy enough to join the military, and a badly divided Congress might be amenable to cooperating on this one issue, obesity policy experts said said Wednesday.
President Obama offered a robust defense of his foreign policy on Wednesday, using an address to the graduating class of the U.S. Air Force Academy to tout the accomplishments of his first term and pledge to use a second to build “another great American century.”
Official Washington is one of the last redoubts of the thumb-tapping BlackBerry user. The new Digital Government Strategy, released on Wednesday, contains hints that the BlackBerry is on the way out as federal government’s leading mobile device.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell had some tough words for Mitt Romney’s foreign policy positions on Wednesday, saying that calling Russia the U.S.’s No. 1 geopolitical foe was wrong.
A Pakistani doctor who assisted the U.S. in tracking down Osama bin Laden has been convicted for high treason by a Pakistani court and sentenced to 33 years in prison, the Associated Press reports.
Millions of Egyptians are voting in the country's first democratic election since the ouster of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak a year and a half ago, the Associated Press reports.