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(ABC News) - Osama bin Laden, hunted as the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, has been killed, President Obama announced tonight. The president called the killing of bin Laden the "most significant achievement to date" in the effort to defeat al Qaeda. Bin Laden was located at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, which was monitored and when the time was determined ... (more)

(Military Times) - When eight female airmen at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan were tapped for a mission last month, they had no idea they would be stirring the debate about women in combat. On March 30, the day before Women’s History Month ended, the members of the 389th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron and 455th Air Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron became the first women on record to ... (more)

(Politico) - Spouses of service members are badly stressed from years of long deployments — so stressed that some have taken their own lives. Children who’ve had a parent away at war for almost their entire conscious lives are leaving home to go off to college. And the troops themselves continue to struggle with substance abuse, post-traumatic stress, and devastating physical and mental wounds. ... (more)

(FoxNews) - WASHINGTON – A U.S senator says hundreds of defense companies that defrauded the U.S. military between 2007 and 2009 still received $285 billion in contracts from the Pentagon during the same period. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday called the figures "shocking" and urged the Defense Department to take more aggressive steps to ensure taxpayer dollars aren't wasted at a time when th... (more)

(CNBC) - A Reservist in a New War, Against Foreclosure. While Sgt. James B. Hurley was away at war, he lost a heartbreaking battle at home. In violation of a law intended to protect active military personnel from creditors, agents of Deutsche Bank foreclosed on his small Michigan house, forcing Sergeant Hurley’s wife, Brandie, and her two young children to move out and find shelter elsewhere. ... (more)

(Tea Party Vets) - While participating in training maneuvers at Camp Pendleton, Lance Corporal Fidel Granado was involved in a rollover accident in his Jeep after the vehicle he was following threw up dust, blocking his vision. Because there was no visible injury to either Granado or the Jeep, he was immediately sent back into training the training exercise. Later, while deployed overseas, G... (more)

(Washington Times) - The Constitution frequently gets lip service in Congress, but House Republicans next year will make sure it gets a lot more than that - the new rules the incoming majority party proposed this week call for a full reading of the country's founding document on the floor of the House on Jan. 6. The goal, backers said, is to underscore the limited-government rules the Founders ... (more)

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(Stripes) - For the second time in two years, Congress has approved a major overhaul of GI Bill benefits, this time simplifying the formula for college tuition payments and awarding housing stipends to students attending classes online. The measure, which passed the House in a 409 to 3 vote Thursday afternoon, would also allow more veterans to use the post-9/11 GI Bill to pay for vocational sch... (more)

(NewsMax) - US Forces Helping Mexico in Battle Against Drug Cartels. WASHINGTON – The United States is supplying intelligence and crucial training to elite units of Mexican marines who are engaged in an operation against drug cartels, The Washington Post reported. Citing unnamed diplomats and law enforcement officials, the newspaper said the effort includes more information-sharing and training... (more)

Perry Suggests U.S. Should Consider Sending Military to Mexico Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was just elected the new head of the Republican Governor's Association, said this week that President Obama should consider sending the military into Mexico to help fight the drug war. During an interview on MSNBC on Thursday, Perry, a potential presidential 2012 presidential candidate, said the U.S. mu... (more)

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(Politics.Blogs) - The head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said his department is prepared to sue states over military voters' rights even after Tuesday's mid-term elections if necessary, and he took sharp aim at Illinois Republicans whom he accused of seeking privileges that are "quite literally unprecedented in our nation's history." "People who are serving our nation shoul... (more)