AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-financial-markets-ap-top-news-mark-esper-nuclear-weapons-0b91f654d44baaeee55d626a7b58f279Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-financial-markets-ap-top-news-mark-esper-nuclear-weapons-0b91f654d44baaeee55d626a7b58f279Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s $3 trillion effort to rescue the economy from the coronavirus crisis is stirring worry at the Pentagon. Bulging federal deficits may force a reversal of years of big defense spending gains and threaten prized projects like the rebuilding of the...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-financial-markets-ap-top-news-mark-esper-nuclear-weapons-0b91f654d44baaeee55d626a7b58f279Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-financial-markets-ap-top-news-mark-esper-nuclear-weapons-0b91f654d44baaeee55d626a7b58f279Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s $3 trillion effort to rescue the economy from the coronavirus crisis is stirring worry at the Pentagon. Bulging federal deficits may force a reversal of years of big defense spending gains and threaten prized projects like the rebuilding of the...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-navy-politics-c5a9bb159bbf34532783c9dd55ce0c89Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-navy-politics-c5a9bb159bbf34532783c9dd55ce0c89Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the crew of the coronavirus-infected USS Theodore Roosevelt died Monday of complications related to the disease, 11 days after the aircraft carrier’s captain was fired for pressing his concern that the Navy had done too little to safeguard his crew. The sailor was the first active-duty military member to...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-navy-politics-c5a9bb159bbf34532783c9dd55ce0c89Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-navy-politics-c5a9bb159bbf34532783c9dd55ce0c89Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the crew of the coronavirus-infected USS Theodore Roosevelt died Monday of complications related to the disease, 11 days after the aircraft carrier’s captain was fired for pressing his concern that the Navy had done too little to safeguard his crew. The sailor was the first active-duty military member to...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/joint-chiefs-of-staff-raymond-t-odierno-middle-east-iraq-army-7dc54d83e3a72a33643d9cf8655c8d38Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/joint-chiefs-of-staff-raymond-t-odierno-middle-east-iraq-army-7dc54d83e3a72a33643d9cf8655c8d38Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — Raymond T. Odierno, a retired Army general who commanded American and coalition forces in Iraq at the height of the war and capped a 39-year career by serving as the Army’s chief of staff, has died, his family said Saturday. He was 67.“The general died after a brave battle with cancer;...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/joint-chiefs-of-staff-raymond-t-odierno-middle-east-iraq-army-7dc54d83e3a72a33643d9cf8655c8d38Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/joint-chiefs-of-staff-raymond-t-odierno-middle-east-iraq-army-7dc54d83e3a72a33643d9cf8655c8d38Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — Raymond T. Odierno, a retired Army general who commanded American and coalition forces in Iraq at the height of the war and capped a 39-year career by serving as the Army’s chief of staff, has died, his family said Saturday. He was 67.“The general died after a brave battle with cancer;...WW…

close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: BRUSSELS - At its start, America’s war in Afghanistan was about retribution for 9-11. Then it was about shoring up a weak government and its weak army so that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida could never again threaten the United States.Now it’s about over. With bin Laden long since dead and the United States not suffering another major attack, President Joe Biden is...…close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: BRUSSELS - At its start, America’s war in Afghanistan was about retribution for 9-11. Then it was about shoring up a weak government and its weak army so that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida could never again threaten the United States.Now it’s about over. With bin Laden long since dead and the United States not suffering another major attack, President Joe Biden is...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyRelated topicsABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday discussed with his Philippine counterpart China’s recent positioning of “militia vessels” near the Philippines in the South China Sea.Austin spoke by phone with Philippine Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana while Austin...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyRelated topicsABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday discussed with his Philippine counterpart China’s recent positioning of “militia vessels” near the Philippines in the South China Sea.Austin spoke by phone with Philippine Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana while Austin...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyRelated topicsABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday discussed with his Philippine counterpart China’s recent positioning of “militia vessels” near the Philippines in the South China Sea.Austin spoke by phone with Philippine Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana while Austin...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/john-kirby-south-china-sea-lloyd-austin-philippines-china-f113af1b858cabdb2ac369fd503ab16bClick to copyRelated topicsABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday discussed with his Philippine counterpart China’s recent positioning of “militia vessels” near the Philippines in the South China Sea.Austin spoke by phone with Philippine Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana while Austin...WW…

close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: WASHINGTON - Without coming right out and saying it, President Joe Biden seems ready to let lapse a May 1 deadline for completing a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Orderly withdrawals take time, and Biden is running out of it.Biden has inched so close to the deadline that his indecision amounts almost to a decision to put off, at least for a number of...…close This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. To orderpresentation-ready copies of Toronto Star content for distributionto colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire aboutpermissions/licensing, please go to: WASHINGTON - Without coming right out and saying it, President Joe Biden seems ready to let lapse a May 1 deadline for completing a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Orderly withdrawals take time, and Biden is running out of it.Biden has inched so close to the deadline that his indecision amounts almost to a decision to put off, at least for a number of...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — The American military is warning that China is probably accelerating its timetable for capturing control of Taiwan, the island democracy that has been for decades and is widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially catastrophic U.S.-China war.The worry about Taiwan comes as China wields new strength from years of...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — The American military is warning that China is probably accelerating its timetable for capturing control of Taiwan, the island democracy that has been for decades and is widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially catastrophic U.S.-China war.The worry about Taiwan comes as China wields new strength from years of...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — The American military is warning that China is probably accelerating its timetable for capturing control of Taiwan, the island democracy that has been for decades and is widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially catastrophic U.S.-China war.The worry about Taiwan comes as China wields new strength from years of...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/us-military-risk-china-move-against-taiwan-788c254952dc47de78745b8e2a5c3000Click to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — The American military is warning that China is probably accelerating its timetable for capturing control of Taiwan, the island democracy that has been for decades and is widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially catastrophic U.S.-China war.The worry about Taiwan comes as China wields new strength from years of...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/taliban-russia-ap-top-news-mark-esper-afghanistan-92d0cd32b4db25ac768dfbb75890f3ccClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/taliban-russia-ap-top-news-mark-esper-afghanistan-92d0cd32b4db25ac768dfbb75890f3ccClick to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — Top Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday that reports of Russia offering Taliban militants bounties for killing Americans were not corroborated by defense intelligence agencies, but said they are looking into it and the U.S. will respond if necessary.Defense Secretary Mark Esper said his military...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/taliban-russia-ap-top-news-mark-esper-afghanistan-92d0cd32b4db25ac768dfbb75890f3ccClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/taliban-russia-ap-top-news-mark-esper-afghanistan-92d0cd32b4db25ac768dfbb75890f3ccClick to copyRelated topicsWASHINGTON (AP) — Top Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday that reports of Russia offering Taliban militants bounties for killing Americans were not corroborated by defense intelligence agencies, but said they are looking into it and the U.S. will respond if necessary.Defense Secretary Mark Esper said his military...WW…