Judge Grants Jewish Sailor Temporary Reprieve After Navy Orders Him to Shave Beard

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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily postponed orders a deployed sailor was facing to shave his beard — an order he says infringes on his religious rights. Electrician’s Mate (Nuclear) 3rd Class Edmund Di Liscia, a Hasidic Jew aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, was counseled Thursday and ordered to shave his beard by Friday. …

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Changes to bill bans guns in state buildings, Capitol Square

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Virginia legislators recently accepted the governor’s substitute to a bill banning firearms on and near Capitol Square, as well as in state buildings. Lawmakers voted last year to ban firearms from the state Capitol. Senate Bill 1381, introduced by Sen. Adam P. Ebbin, D-Alexandria, will make it a Class 1 misdemeanor …

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VA dumps plans to stop students from adding non-degree classes to keep GI Bill benefits

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Veterans Affairs officials are backtracking on plans to bar student veterans from “rounding out” their degree programs with non-required courses to maintain their GI Bill benefits, saying they’ll look for other ways to ensure the system isn’t being abused. Department leaders had planned to end the practice this August, a move that could have cost …

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Bill would give US vets of 1966 Spain bomb accident benefits

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. veterans who were exposed to radiation while responding to a 1966 hydrogen bomb accident in Spain would be made eligible for disability benefits that have been denied to them for decades by the Department of Veterans Affairs, under legislation introduced in Congress on Thursday. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. …

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Fort Jackson Suspends Drill Instructor Involved in Alleged Assault of Black Man

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Army officials at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, have suspended a drill instructor who was arrested Wednesday after a viral video allegedly showed him assaulting a Black man in his neighborhood. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department charged Sgt. 1st Class Jonathan Pentland with third-degree assault, then transferred the 42-year-old to Fort Jackson authorities late Wednesday evening. …

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