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Military

Rep. Andy Kim, David Richter and Martin Weber
Politics & Policy

Kim, Richter and Weber spar over veterans’ care in South Jersey candidate forum

The forum focused on issues, not personality. But all the candidates chimed in on how to best take care of veterans.

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
Politics & Policy

Murphy signs law exempting combat pay from N.J. income tax

Federal law already exempts combat pay from income tax, but the N.J. law means pay residents earn while in combat zones won’t be subject to the state’s income tax as well.

6 years ago

Member state flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020, in New York. Security measures have been downscaled outside the United Nations ahead of this year’s General Assembly. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the globe, the annual meeting of member states has been scaled back, with the majority of delegates addressing the assembly from remote locations. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Politics & Policy

On 75th anniversary of UN, its chief appeals for peace

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an appeal to preserve the longest period in modern history without a military confrontation between the world’s most powerful nations.

6 years ago

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley (second from left) and others listen as President Trump speaks during a meeting with senior military leaders on Oct. 7, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump’s attacks put military In ‘presidential campaign minefield’

Eliot Cohen, a military expert at Johns Hopkins, could not recall such a character attack on top military leaders by a commander in chief.

6 years ago

Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, right, accompanied by officials, inspects the damage caused by German bombs in London's East End, Sept. 9, 1940, during the Blitz.  (AP Photo/British Official Photo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Churchill and the Blitz: “The Splendid and the Vile”

Author Erik Larson on Winston Churchill's leadership through the Blitz, the nine months of German nighttime bombing raids that killed tens of thousands of British people.

Air Date: September 7, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:59
President Trump vociferously denied a report by The Atlantic that he has privately denigrated people who serve in the U.S. military. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump faces fallout from report he calls military ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’

The Military Times this week said a poll of service members in late July and early August showed support slipping for Trump.

6 years ago

Petty Officer 3rd Class Mason Sanders and Petty Officer 2nd Class Carliene Lyon work to free a sea turtle tangled in a fishing trap line while Fireman Jason Breckner assists, August 13, 2020, near Cape May, New Jersey. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Seaman Grimaud Kouwenaar)
Down the Shore
Community

With sharks nearby, Coast Guard crew rescues entangled sea turtle off N.J.

Coast Guard members saved a distressed sea turtle from a certain fate Thursday off the coast of Cape May.

6 years ago

Letter carriers load mail trucks for deliveries at a U.S. Postal Service facility
Politics & Policy

Lawmakers: Postal changes delay mail-order medicine for vets

Policy changes to slow delivery at the U.S. Postal Service are taking a toll on military veterans, who are reporting much longer wait times to receive mail-order prescriptions

6 years ago

(U.S. Army)
Down the Shore
Community

Rumbles and booms: Military training ongoing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst

Military units are conducting training maneuvers on the base, according to the Toms River Office of Emergency Management.

6 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Does the President have authority to send troops to U.S. cities not asking for aid?

President Trump sent federal law enforcement to Portland to respond to racial justice protests and is now threatening to send troops to U.S. cities who are not asking for aid.

Air Date: July 22, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
A young man wears a Confederate flag while walking with friends in Marion, VA Friday afternoon. (AP Photo/Andre Teague, Bristol Herald Courier)
Politics & Policy

Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump’s wrath

After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon on Friday will ban displays of the Confederate flag on military installations.

6 years ago

In this Aug. 27, 2017 file photo, a U.S. Marine takes part during a training session for Afghan army commandos in Shorab military camp in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Russian bounties for US troops in Afghanistan

How should the U.S. respond to reports that Russia paid bounties to Taliban militants to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan?

Air Date: July 1, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
President Donald Trump
Politics & Policy

AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019

The assessment was included in at least one of President Donald Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the time, according to the officials.

6 years ago

U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers trained in Afghanistan in 2009. Members of Congress want answers about alleged Russian bounties paid to target American troops.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Congress unites to demand answers from Trump on Russian bounties in Afghanistan

The game of Who Knew What When is an old one in Washington which is further complicated now by Trump's longstanding antipathy with the intelligence community.

6 years ago

The Louisiana Monument raises up near the rebel encampment on Seminary Ridge on the Gettysburg battlefield, July 1, 2013, the 150th anniversary of the first day of the historic 1863 battle. (Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com)
Community
PA Post

National Park Service: Confederate monuments at Gettysburg an ‘important part of the cultural landscape,’ will not be removed

The statement describes the Confederate monuments as representing an “important, if controversial, chapter in our nation’s history.”

6 years ago

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