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80 years after D-Day, a World War II veteran is getting married near beaches where US troops landed
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a 20-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces corporal shortly after D-Day. ...
Biden signs a package of spending bills passed by Congress just hours before a shutdown deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a $460 billion package of spending bills approved by the Senate in time to avoid a shutdown of many key federal agencies. The legislation's success gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024...
Congress passes first package of spending bills just hours before shutdown deadline for key agencies
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Friday approved a $460 billion package of spending bills in time to meet a midnight deadline for avoiding a shutdown of many key federal agencies, a vote that gets lawmakers about halfway home in wrapping up their appropriations work for the 2024 budget year. ...
Spending bill would ease access to guns for some veterans declared mentally incapable
WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans whom the government declares incapable of managing their own affairs would have easier access to firearms under spending legislation expected to be signed by President Joe Biden in the coming days — a reversal of current law that Republicans, and even some Democrats,...
President Biden to make 'unity agenda' appeal to Congress in State of the Union
WASHINGTON (AP) — Much of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union on Thursday night will focus on comparing his vision for America with that of the Republican Party, setting up an election-year contrast that Biden hopes will pay dividends in November. But he'll also focus on...
House passes $460 billion package of spending bills. Senate expected to act before shutdown deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a $460 billion package of spending bills Wednesday that would keep money flowing to key federal agencies through the remainder of the budget year. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. ...
V-J Day 'Kiss' photo stays on display as VA head reverses department memo that would've banned it
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs secretary has reversed a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph of a Navy sailor kissing a woman he did not know on the streets of New York at the end of World War II. Secretary...
Kentucky Senate passes bill to allow local districts to hire armed 'guardians' in schools
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bill meant to bolster school safety by allowing school districts to hire retired law officers or military veterans to work as armed guardians won passage in the Kentucky Senate on Tuesday. The measure is the latest attempt by Kentucky lawmakers to augment...
Democrats make play for veteran and military support as Trump homes in on GOP nomination
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Highway signs welcome drivers entering North Carolina to “the nation's most military friendly state,” and veterans here know they're being courted. But in a state where camouflage-colored appeals have become commonplace, recent efforts by progressive groups to cut into...
Editorial Roundup: Nebraska
Lincoln Journal Star. February 29, 2024. Editorial: Veterans’ court expansion good for system and Nebraska Nebraska appears to be on its way to joining a national movement to expand veterans’ access to problem-solving courts that would give judges the option to...