Tag: Military legal affairs
Minorities underrepresented in service academy nominations
Minority students are significantly underrepresented when it comes to getting nominations from members of Congress to attend the nation's military service academies, according to...
Army under fire from Congress over Fort Hood response
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday with how slowly improvements are being made to criminal investigation at Fort Hood, Texas, where rates of violent...
Watching the watchers: who’s at the helm of EU’s Frontex?
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s border and coast guard agency Frontex, the pride of the 27-nation bloc’s vast effort to keep watch over its...
Children packed into Border Patrol tent for days on end
HOUSTON — Hundreds of immigrant children and teenagers have been detained at a Border Patrol tent facility in packed conditions, with some sleeping on...
Man who hid wife’s body in freezer sentenced for her killing
SAN DIEGO — A former U.S. Navy man whom prosecutors said killed his estranged wife and hid her body in a freezer for nearly...
Ex-Coast Guard officer seeks review of terrorism sentence
RICHMOND, Va. — A former Coast Guard lieutenant accused by prosecutors of plotting to kill members of Congress to advance a white nationalist agenda...
At Air Force One base, intruder given up by ‘mouse ears’
WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual breach of security last month at the air base that operates the Air Force One presidential aircraft, an...
Thailand probes Facebook’s removal of army-linked accounts
BANGKOK — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha says he has assigned the Royal Thai Army to investigate after Facebook Inc. removed 185 accounts and...
Germany: 5 Tajiks charged with membership in IS group
BERLIN — German prosecutors said Monday they have charged five Tajik men with being members of the Islamic State group, accusing them of participating...
German soldier in alleged far-right plot facing May trial
BERLIN — A German court said Tuesday that a military officer indicted on allegations that he plotted to kill prominent politicians and blame the...