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With the military's leadership in crisis, a new defense minister adopted a recommendation to remove prosecutorial authority for sexual misconduct cases from the armed forces. OTTAWA -- The Canadian military [...]

Military veterans trying to defend the Capitol on Jan. 6 were taunted by veterans in the pro-Trump mob who were storming it. Both felt they were doing their patriotic duty [...]

The nation's military has a history of downplaying white nationalism and right-wing activism, but the siege of the Capitol has created a new urgency for dealing with them. WASHINGTON -- [...]

About 340 National Guard troops are expected to deploy in support of local law enforcement before demonstrations against the election results. WASHINGTON -- The leader of the Proud Boys, a [...]

Six days after being removed by the police from a veterans hospital in Washington, the man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. WASHINGTON -- The internal watchdog for the Department [...]

The U.S. mission in Afghanistan is now described as training, advising and assisting Afghan troops. But American forces are still patrolling areas that are as deadly as they were in [...]

Women in the military say the horrific killing of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen has swept the nation, galvanizing even civilians to the cause. WASHINGTON -- As the #MeToo movement gained [...]

''If it does come out as true, obviously the heartache would be terrible,'' said Erik Hendriks, whose son was killed while on patrol in Afghanistan. WASHINGTON -- Erik Hendriks has [...]

The mysterious firing of the department's deputy secretary was the latest incident to shake the agency as it embarks on ambitious changes to health care. WASHINGTON -- As President Trump [...]

A spokeswoman for the Department of Veterans Affairs said it had already taken action on many of the recommendations in the report by the inspector general. WASHINGTON -- Officials in [...]

WASHINGTON -- A senior policy adviser on female veterans issues for the House said she was assaulted last week at the V.A. Medical Center in Washington by a man who [...]

WASHINGTON -- A Republican senator's revelations of her sexual assault while serving in the Air Force is likely to renew debate over how to best get justice for victims, an [...]

WASHINGTON -- She paused to maintain her composure as she spoke. She recalled the attacks, and how her reports of them were handled. The despair, she said, almost made her [...]

WASHINGTON -- The new Democratic leadership of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee said Friday that it would investigate the influence exerted by three members of President Trump's Florida beach club [...]

WASHINGTON -- Foreshadowing a likely partisan battle next year, Robert L. Wilkie, the secretary of Veterans Affairs, faced sharp questioning from Democrats on Wednesday over how the department will carry [...]

WASHINGTON -- Even before the next Congress convenes, Republicans are joining Democrats in a vigorous examination of failings by the Department of Veterans Affairs, a rare area of bipartisan oversight [...]

WASHINGTON -- As the majority whip in the House, Representative Steve Scalise is known among his Republican colleagues as a pleasant, persistent force, who gently checks back to see whether [...]

WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress from both parties escalated calls on Tuesday for former F.B.I. director James B. Comey to appear before them after reports that President Trump had asked [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's abrupt dismissal of the F.B.I. director roiled Washington on Wednesday and deepened the sense of crisis swirling around the White House. Republican leaders came to the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Before President Trump was even sworn into office, congressional Republicans made a pledge: They would be a check on executive power, they said, often making the independence of [...]

* The United States fired 59 Tomahawk missiles on Thursday at an airfield in Syria from which officials said a chemical weapons attack originated this week. * Russian forces, which [...]

WASHINGTON -- As attack dogs go, Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, is more labradoodle than Doberman, his partisanship disguised by a thick fur of intense preparation, modulated locution [...]

WASHINGTON -- She is a female trailblazer in a Senate where women remain a minority, a formal and wealthy institutionalist from one of the nation's most liberal states whose partisanship […]

WASHINGTON -- The stunning resignation of Michael T. Flynn as White House national security adviser has emboldened congressional Democrats to demand a broader investigation into President Trump's ties to Russia [...]

WASHINGTON -- The top two Republicans in Congress said on Monday that they supported investigations into possible Russian cyberattacks to influence the American election, setting up a potential confrontation with [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats concede they have little leverage to stop Donald J. Trump's cabinet nominees. But that will not discourage them from trying to make life as uncomfortable as [...]

As part of its final bit of business before the election, Congress is set to vote to override President Obama's veto of a bill allowing families of those killed in [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is delaying a planned veto of a bill that would allow the families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any [...]

WASHINGTON -- The House on Friday approved a bill to allow families of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the [...]

Celebrities often land on Capitol Hill to testify about world atrocities, advocate medical research or defend the rights of musicians. Now, the chefs are coming to press for new food [...]

WASHINGTON -- A bill opposed by the Obama administration that would expose Saudi Arabia to legal jeopardy for any role in the Sept. 11 attacks appeared to gain momentum on [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Flint water crisis fanned partisan tensions on Wednesday in both the Senate and the House, where members of an oversight committee grilled federal and state officials about [...]

WASHINGTON -- The recent mass shootings from California to Paris stoked fierce debate Thursday between Republicans who argued that the killings should intensify the focus on Islamist terrorism and Democrats [...]

WASHINGTON -- A day after Republicans on a congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, sharply questioned former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for more than eight [...]

WASHINGTON -- From the moment he rolled into town with the Tea Party wave in 2011, Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina began to distinguish himself from the 86 other [...]

WASHINGTON -- Months of tense and at times frustrating negotiations over the effectiveness and fairness of locking up nonviolent offenders for mandatory prison terms gave way to simple handshakes on [...]

WASHINGTON -- For Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, the issue of abortion rights has always been ancillary to her unwavering faith and deep approbation for generations of popes. ''I [...]

WASHINGTON -- The vow by ardently conservative Republicans to reject any spending bill that does not cut off federal funds for Planned Parenthood is their latest attempt to force through [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER WASHINGTON -- For several years, a handful of lawmakers in Congress have tried to scale back tough sentencing laws that have bloated federal prisons and the cost [...]

Byline: JENNIFER STEINHAUER WASHINGTON -- For several years, a handful of lawmakers in Congress have tried to scale back tough sentencing laws that have bloated federal prisons and the cost [...]

WASHINGTON -- Maureen McDonnell, the wife of former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia, who along with her husband was found guilty last year of trading favors in return for loans, [...]

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The question before Pennsylvanians is this: Is Kathleen G. Kane, the first woman to be elected as the state's attorney general, the victim of angry men who [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTo be clear, late-night votes might be a bit of a problem for Joseph Morrissey, the newly sworn-in Virginia House delegate who must report to his jail cell about [...]

WASHINGTON -- An incident Monday in which one passenger was killed and scores were hurt when smoke filled a Washington Metro car during a chaotic rush hour commute has raised [...]

The University of Virginia, after receiving guidance from the local police, on Monday reinstated the fraternity at the center of a Rolling Stone magazine article that detailed gang rape allegations [...]

BALTIMORE -- Two days after Christmas, Thomas Palermo took advantage of a rare moment of free time to do what he loved most: ride his bike up a busy road [...]

RICHMOND, Va. -- Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia who was convicted in September on corruption charges, was sentenced to 24 months in prison on Tuesday in one of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The University of Virginia heads into an extraordinary meeting of its governing board on Tuesday struggling to find its footing, after a reported frat house gang [...]

WASHINGTON -- The man charged with the abduction of a University of Virginia student missing since mid-September has been indicted in the abduction, sexual assault and attempted capital murder of [...]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The urgent fliers pinned to trees and electric poles disrupt the calm in this quaint college town. They include two photos of a missing young woman, one [...]