Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has set a goal to transform the Corps from a heavy land army into an agile naval expeditionary force, focusing on adversaries like China. That vision got a little more real last week with the publication of a detailed new training manual mapping out … View original article
China is stepping up provocative activities targeting regional American allies in Asia in recent days, with an escalating number of military flights around Taiwan and the massing of more than 200 fishing ships near a disputed Philippines reef. China also raised tensions with Japan, announcing last week that Tokyo must … View original article
NEW YORK (AP) – A prayer bench used by the Rev. Mychal Judge, a Fire Department chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, was driven to the New York area on Sunday to join the collection of the Sept. 11 Memorial and … View original article
Homeland Security has issued new rules requiring every affirmative-asylum decision to undergo a supervisor’s review, in a move the department described as “quality assurance” but which one former staffer said was an attempt to browbeat officers into approving more cases. The memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services revokes a … View original article
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Federal authorities say that more than $1 million worth of cocaine has been hauled of a cargo ship that was anchored in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Maryland. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that the seizure was made Wednesday during a … View original article
