Author: Reporter

When the Supreme Court issued its abortion ruling last June overturning Roe v. Wade, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said “our work is far from done.” He did not say what might come next. A year later later, McCarthy is the speaker, Republicans are in the majority and the blanks are beginning to be filled in. In a flurry of little-noticed legislative action, GOP lawmakers are pushing abortion policy changes, trying to build on the work of activists whose strategy successfully elevated their fight to the nation’s highest court. In one government funding bill after another, Republicans are incorporating...

Female soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment, and other gender-related challenges in male dominated Army special operations units, according to a report on September 4, eight years after the Pentagon opened all combat jobs to women. U.S. Army Special Operations Command, in a lengthy study, reported a wide range of “overtly sexist” comments from male soldiers, including a broad aversion to females serving in commando units. The comments, it said, are “not outliers” but represent a common sentiment that women don’t belong on special operations teams. “The idea that women are equally as physically, mentally and emotionally capable to perform...

President Joe Biden closed a visit to Vietnam on September 11 by spotlighting new business deals and partnerships between the two countries and paying respects at a memorial honoring his late friend and colleague Senator John McCain, who endured a lengthy imprisonment in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. Biden met with Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính, who also accompanied Biden to a quick drop by at a meeting of business leaders. Biden also sat down with President Võ Văn Thưởng, who hosted the U.S. president for a formal state luncheon. The two sides are looking to strengthen their partnership...

Top defense officials are accusing Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville of jeopardizing America’s national security with his hold on roughly 300 military promotions, raising the stakes in a clash over abortion policy that shows no signs of easing. Tuberville brushed off the criticism. “We’re going to be in a holding pattern for a long time,” he said, if the Pentagon refuses to end its policy of paying for travel when a service member goes out of state to get an abortion or other reproductive care. It is a disruptively harmful standoff with rippling effects across the country, placing the lives...