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An annual benefit that has raised $117 million for injured veterans and their families since 2007 will mark its 20th anniversary this fall in New York. Bruce Springsteen is returning to a lineup that also features comedian Jon Stewart. Stand Up for Heroes is scheduled for Nov. 9 at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, produced by the Bob Woodruff Foundation in partnership with the New York Comedy Festival. Along with Springsteen, the musical acts include The Resilient and Alex Warren, while the comedy lineup features Stewart, Hasan Minhaj, and Josh Johnson of “The Daily Show.” Tickets are on sale…

Andy Parker is one of the better known figures in the gun control movement in Virginia. His daughter Alison, a TV reporter in Roanoke, was shot and killed along with videographer Adam Ward by a former colleague during a live segment on the local news back in 2015.  Ever since, Parker has devoted much of his time and energy pushing for more restrictive gun laws. I don’t really blame Parker for doing so, though I don’t know what policy would have stopped his daughter’s killer from acquiring a gun given that he had never been…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday launching the process of establishing a U.S. Space Academy, a new federal institution that could educate future Space Force Guardians alongside NASA engineers, scientists and other federal space professionals. Trump announced the academy Aug. 28 during a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, comparing it with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the Naval Academy in Annapolis and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. But Trump did not create another military service academy outright. His order establishes a presidential commission with 120 days to recommend how the academy…

The Navy has announced new bonus schemes of up to $100,000 to keep specialized senior officers in the service. The Navy, in an administrative message posted on Wednesday, said chief warrant officers with between four and 16 years of commissioned service as SEALs and crewmen aboard special warfare combatant-craft should apply for the scheme, which began on Aug. 7. These roles are also known as 7151 and 7171 designations, with less than 1% of sailors holding these positions. “CWOs will receive the bonus in a lump sum payment, effective from the date of contract execution,” the Navy administrative message said.…

When violence is a problem in a community, it’s common for a mayor to call for gun control. This is especially true in anti-gun states like Vermont. Burlington is such a place, and the mayor there is such a mayor. There’s been a problem, and it does look like a problem from the outside. No question in my mind.But one resident has a problem with the mayor’s rhetoric. Reality suggests it’s not a gun issue.Burlington’s latest outbreak of violence should prompt a broader discussion about the city’s public safety system, not simply another debate over…

On the fifth anniversary of the Taliban’s capture of Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, shared publicly for the first time, alongside Army Reserve Lt. Col. Marvin “Lee” Chase, the full account of a rescue that unfolded — from Gonzalez’s perspective — almost entirely over the phone, in the middle of the night, from a hotel room in Madrid. A Vacation Interrupted Gonzalez was on his August 2021 congressional recess in Spain when a constituent from his south Texas district called to say another constituent’s husband, an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel in Afghanistan, needed help rescuing a…

The National Rifle Association is declaring victory in a federal lawsuit challenging New Mexico’s 7-day waiting period on firearm transfers after a federal judge entered his order permanently enjoining the statute from being enforced against the plaintiffs.  In a statement, NRA-ILA Executive Director John Commerford hailed the decision. A right delayed is a right denied, and the court correctly held that forcing law-abiding citizens to wait after passing a background check cannot be squared with the Second Amendment. Under New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the NRA’s landmark 2022 case, waiting period laws…