Recommendations from a panel of lawmakers tasked with improving the quality of life for troops include a 15% pay raise for junior enlisted service members, no more referrals for physical therapy, optometry, women’s health and other specialties, and a basic allowance for housing that covers 100% of estimated costs.
When Tim Sheehy completed Navy SEAL training in 2009 and shipped off to Iraq, the elite fighting force was not a household name. That all changed in 2011, when a SEAL team conducted the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a shift that took Sheehy, now the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana, by surprise.
O.J. Simpson, the football star and Hollywood actor acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend in a trial that mesmerized the public and exposed divisions on race and policing in America, has died. He was 76.
How did Southern California wind up so … Southern? Well, the Butterfield stagecoach routes ran from Texas through Arizona and New Mexico into L.A., and people heading west brought enslaved Black men and women with them, to the gold fields and, after the gold played out, throughout the state.
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