Chairman of the Senate Judiciary CommitteeDick Durbin(Democrat, Ill.) is calling on Secretary of DefenseLloyd AustinReconsider the decision to revoke plea deals made with 9/11 conspiratorsKhalid Sheikh Mohammedand his two accomplices.

In his letter to Austin, Durbin said “the best path to justice would have been a fair trial” in the 9/11 cases, adding that the families of those killed and injured in the terrorist attacks “have waited more than two decades for justice, and the trial has not even begun.”ed” …

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) stepped up his attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) military record, alleging that Vice President Harris’ running mate misrepresented his own military record during a campaign event on Thursday. “Tim Walz said he bore arms in a war. He never went to war,” Vance said while campaigning with several Republican congressmen in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. “Tim Walz said he was a…

A new study from Brown University’s Costs of War Project finds that the Department of Defense is likely underestimating the number of sexual assaults in the military, and the number is far higher than official estimates. The researchers looked at Department of Defense data from 2001, when the US invaded Afghanistan, through 2023, and found that the levels are two to four times higher than the Department of Defense estimates. In 2021, the Department of Defense estimates that there were 35,900 sexual assaults.