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A U.S. Army commander whose brigade recently deployed home from Iraq said the U.S. is winning there from a military standpoint, but victory depends on whether the international community can help rebuild devastated areas.

Stanford University conservative leader John Rice-Cameron slammed ObamaCare and political censorship at a conference for conservative high school students on Monday evening.

The Senate on Monday evening confirmed Robert Wilkie as the next secretary of Veterans Affairs in a largely bipartisan 86-9 vote.

Two House Republican chairmen called for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications on Carter Page to be unredacted.

Americans are in a war with China — just not one involving bombs, Jim Phillips, Chairman and CEO of NanoMech said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Rebecca Mansour and guest co-host Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government. 

The Pentagon announced Friday it is providing $200 million to Ukraine to strengthen its military, which is locked in low-grade war with Russia. The funds will go to additional training, equipment, and advisory efforts.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told members of Congress this week that the recent NATO summit was “one of the most productive” he has ever attended.

Ranking member House Intelligence Committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) raised a motion to subpoena the interpreter who attended President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, during a hearing on Thursday.

FBI agent Peter Strzok’s text to FBI lawyer Lisa Page hours after FBI Director James Comey was fired that said they needed to “open the case we’ve been waiting on” now that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was in charge was related to the Trump-Russia investigation, according to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan is refuting reports that its top commander said the U.S. is ready to engage in direct talks with the Taliban.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) defended President Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday amid intense backlash from Democrats and Republicans.

President Trump on Monday met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a formal bilateral meeting for the first time during his presidency, despite high political risk.

President Donald Trump called on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday to hand over its server to the FBI to prove Russia hacked into it.

President Trump brought up the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, both leaders acknowledged during a press conference.

NATO member and partner-nations have fought side-by-side with U.S. forces in Afghanistan for 17 years, after Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. in 2001. But in recent years, the alliance has struggled to meet its troop commitments.

The U.S. Army is standing up the Army Futures Command in Austin, the capital Texas, in its first major reorganization in more than forty years, Army leaders announced on Friday.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday called NBC News’ report that the Pentagon was in “damage-control” mode to reassure NATO allies after President Trump’s visit “fiction.”

Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) told disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok during a hearing with the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees that he should be awarded a Purple Heart, an award reserved for those in the armed services wounded in combat.

House Democrats demanded that former Chief White House Strategist Stephen K. Bannon be subpoenaed to testify before Congress, in an attempt to obstruct Republican efforts to get answers from FBI agent Peter Strzok during a joint hearing on Thursday. 

Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson might have lied under oath to Senate and House investigators when he said he never communicated with the FBI about the dossier that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee hired him to produce. 

Bob Goodlatte warned former FBI lawyer Lisa Page that lawmakers would “use all tools” at their disposal to obtain her testimony.

Former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work slammed Google employees at a recent defense conference, saying their refusal to work with the Pentagon but still work with China is creating an “enormous moral hazard to themselves.”

Taiwanese officials announced the contribution of $1 million and 20 sets of de-mining equipment to the U.S.-led global coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream abruptly canceled plans to host a live show on the steps of the Supreme Court Monday night, fearing for her safety. 

Army Cpl. Joseph Maciel from South Gate, California, was killed over the weekend in southern Afghanistan by an Afghan soldier in an apparent “green-on-blue” attack as he was protecting his fellow soldiers. 

Investigators have found additional communications between FBI official Peter Strzok and his lover, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, that show his team was rushing in the fall of 2016 to find evidence of collusion by then-candidate Donald Trump.

The Pentagon said Friday that contrary to what an Associated Press report has suggested, there are no new changes to a program for immigrants to gain U.S. citizenship through military service.

President Trump on Thursday at campaign rally in Montana for Republican Senate candidate Matt Rosendale said he would tell NATO members on Monday, “You gotta start paying your bills.” 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly tapping “additional Justice Department resources” for help with new legal battles, which will increase the costs of the more than $17 million investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Marine Corps veteran Kirstie Ennis’s helicopter crashed in Afghanistan in 2012, leaving her with an above-the-knee amputation, a broken neck, and facial reconstruction. Since then, she added competitive snowboarder and mountain climber to her accomplishments, and recently, she added pin-up model.

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released a report of findings it announced back in May that supported the Intelligence Community Assessment released by the Obama administration in January 2017 that Russia meddled in the 2016 elections to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Monday referred ten current and former U.S. officials to the House Judiciary and Oversight & Government Reform Committees’ joint task force, as it investigates potential DOJ and FBI wrongdoing related to the Trump-Russia probe. 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign website does not readily mention the Democratic Socialists of America. But the socialist organization played a major role in fueling her victory in last week’s Democratic primary in New York.

The House on Thursday passed a resolution demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn over all Justice Department and FBI documents requested by members of Congress investigating the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation by July 7. 

The House is preparing to vote this Thursday on a resolution demanding that the Justice Department hand over requested documents related to the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation, according to Politico.

The House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution on Tuesday demanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein turn over all requested documents regarding the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia investigation in seven days, or else face potential impeachment or contempt.