CARLISLE BARRACKS, Pennsylvania, June 29 -- The U.S. Army War College issued the following news: By Col. Richard Butler For many casual observers, the U.S. Army has little to say in how a future war in the Indo-Pacific will play out, especially regarding China. The image most have is blue: blue skies and blue water--a job for the navy the air force. China's main objective--retaking Taiwan--would seem to back this up, necessitating some sort of amphibious assault that could end up on the beache  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 28 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: As airline passengers have begun to take to the skies for this summer travel period, the surge in passenger volume at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) in the early hours of the morning has started to exceed the capacity of the security checkpoints, particularly during the hours of 4 to 7 a.m. Mondays through Fridays. T  more

WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on June 27, 2024: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded a new task order contract to Aptim Federal Services, LLC, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, under the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning, and Removal (DD&R) program to perform DD&R at the Kesselring Site and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, in West Milton and Niskayuna, Ne  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 28, 2024: A federal grand jury in the District of Maryland returned an indictment yesterday charging a Pennsylvania man for defrauding the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) of approximately $16 million in federal grant funds. According to court documents, Hoau-Yan Wang, 67, was a tenured medical professor at a public university's medical school, as well as a paid advisor and consultant to a p  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 28 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is prepared for the highest passenger volumes the agency has seen at airport security checkpoints nationwide during this summer's travel season, including at Philadelphia International Airport. Since mid-May, TSA has seen multiple days break into the top 10 busiest days in the agency's 22-yea  more