A fundraising email from Michigan's Republican Senate candidate told supporters he saw bin Laden's dead body himself. Rogers was 7,000 miles away, and in 2011 he publicly argued about whether to release the photographs — because a photograph is what he had seen.
Two organizations that help service members file as conscientious objectors say applications have spiked since the Iran war began — one is handling them at six times its normal rate, the highest in 25 years. Congress has never voted to authorize the war.
In the only debate before South Carolina's August 25 runoff, Graham asked the moderator to repeat a question about Taiwan and the South China Sea, then said: 'I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not that informed on national security.'
Pete Hegseth headlined 'Operation Top Nunn: Salute to the Troops' at the Iowa State Fair and asked Iowans to reelect Nunn. The Pentagon's own February 2026 guidance bars Senate-confirmed officials from speaking at a political fundraiser or advocating for a candidate.
123 House Republicans voted for the PACT Act. Franklin was one of the 88 who didn't — and one of only five Florida Republicans. Six months later he took a seat on the Veterans' Affairs Committee. Today he helps write the VA's budget.
A federal judge ruled on August 5 that Veterans Guardian ran an illegal, predatory business against disabled veterans. Bergman's bill would legalize that business in all 50 states — and the company's CEO and COO each maxed out to his campaign twelve weeks before he introduced it.
Jackson is running to chair the House Armed Services Committee. A Pentagon investigation found he made sexual comments about a female subordinate, drank on presidential trips, and screamed at the staff who worked for him. The Navy demoted him for it.
Five people who served with Rep. Cory Mills in Iraq — including the two men his award paperwork says he saved — told NOTUS he wasn't involved. One called it a fabrication. Eight days before his primary, a rival veteran put it to his face.
Murphy sits on the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and represents Camp Lejeune. On CNN in March 2025 he defended the VA workforce cuts and promised "short-term pain." By September the VA had shed nearly 30,000 people.