Congressman Richard Hudson, R, NC-09, along with fellow Republican congressmen Pat Fallon, TX, and Jimmy Panetta, CA, are seeking answers from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about what the Department of Defense is doing about the recent rise in incidents of foreign nationals attempting to infiltrate US military installations or spy on military personnel across the country.
After the dust settled on the 2022 midterm primaries, one of the noteworthy victories was of Army Special Forces veteran Pat Harrigan in the 14th Congressional District. And with a better-than-usual year for Republicans, this Democrat-leaning district may be coming into play. “2022 is shaping up to be a red-wave election, with the generic congressional...
We’re winning in Afghanistan. That was the mantra, what they told us. Never entirely true. Some of it, maybe. Many of us in the U.S. were admittedly oblivious to the realities that Taliban fighters still maintained strongholds in the mountains, that ferocious attacks on allied military bases and outposts continued. Suicide bombings, car bombings. Winning? ...
I met Leanne Powell on a searing hot June day in 2016, as I was writing “Still & Barrel.” She popped out of a newer-model Camaro — I can’t remember the color — dressed all in black. She wore a long skirt and a T-shirt with a lone white-on-black image and letters that read, simply,...
The recent anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks reminds us of the victims, our military serving in war zones, and the American tradition of religious freedom.
RALEIGH — The Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission has completed its review of a Pentagon proposal to close or realign military facilities in the United States. While the commission rejected the Pentagon’s recommendations in some high-profile cases, the changes had little effect on North Carolina.
• Bob Woodward: Bush at War; Simon & Schuster; 400 pp; 2002; $28. I remember Sept. 12, 2001 and the days that followed. The hours and seconds were lost to a constant distraction, a sense of shock, mourning, and confusion that followed me everywhere.
The U.S. war on terrorism was roundly decried Tuesday by the speakers at a North Carolina State University roundtable discussion on the war. The discussion was sponsored by the N.C. State Women's Center, the Academic Study of Religion Club and Engineers Without Borders.
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