Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, elected Wednesday as speaker of the House, brings a defense-focused background to the role as a member of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. In ...

The Defense Information Systems Agency building complex at Fort Meade, Md., Jan. 2, 2013. (DoD photo by Thomas L. Burton/Released) The Defense Information Systems Agency has transitioned the team that ...

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order transferring responsibility for conducting background checks from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to the Defense Department. The order ...

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When Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s Republican leader from Kentucky, suggested that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had “a special empathy for criminals,” he was not speaking as though that was a good ...

For three immigration judges, the day took a similar turn. Kyra Lilien, who was hired in 2023, was presiding in a courtroom in Concord, Calif., in July when she paused the hearing of an immigrant ...