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A lab technician working a bottle containing for COVID-19 vaccine testing at Chula Vaccine Research Center, run by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, May 25, 2020. Thai health officials said that scientists in Thailand have had promising results in testing a COVID-19 vaccine candidate on mice, and have begun testing on monkeys.

17 vaccines mandated by the US military before COVID-19 shots

Mike Brest · August 10, 2021 4:59 pm

On Tuesday, the city council of Washington, D.C., voted to name a street in front of the Russian Embassy after Boris Nemtsov, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was killed in 2015. (Kent Wang / Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

Biden must heed Russia’s latest threat to US forces in Syria

Tom Rogan · August 10, 2021 4:33 pm

National Security

Pentagon moves to require members of US military to be vaccinated

Kaelan Deese · August 9, 2021 5:14 pm

An Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter takes off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Alaska’s growing strategic importance

Jamie McIntyre · August 6, 2021 3:00 am

Suspect allegedly involved in violence outside Pentagon faced charges in Georgia and wanted to join Marines

Kaelan Deese · August 4, 2021 7:07 pm

Afghanistan's flag hoisted before the President House flaps in the wind in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will make his first state visit in coming days to neighboring Pakistan, long blamed by his predecessor for harboring militants, in hopes of finding a way to revive peace talks with the Taliban.

National Security

Turkey slams US plan for Afghan refugees to travel to intermediary countries

Mike Brest · August 4, 2021 6:58 pm

The Pentagon is seen in Virginia.

Pentagon police identify officer killed in line of duty during attack

Mike Brest · August 4, 2021 2:59 pm

Police officer and suspect killed in violence outside Pentagon

Mike Brest, Jake Dima · August 3, 2021 3:11 pm

Frank Siller preparing for his 537 memorial walk

Brother of Sept. 11 firefighter to walk over 500 miles in 20th anniversary tribute

Jeremy Beaman · July 31, 2021 1:45 pm

Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego Sunday, July 12, 2020, in San Diego after an explosion and fire Sunday on board the ship at Naval Base San Diego.

Navy sailor charged for fire that wrecked USS Bonhomme Richard

Mike Brest · July 29, 2021 10:37 pm

The Pentagon is seen in Virginia.

Defense Department reissues mask mandate for COVID-19 hot spots

Mike Brest · July 28, 2021 9:36 pm

This image provided by NASA Data from six orbits of the Suomi-NPP spacecraft on April 9, 2015 have been assembled into this perspective composite of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans. Tropical Cyclone Joalane is seen over the Indian Ocean. The image was created by the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Beltway Confidential

Climate change’s threat multiplier

ryen-reid · July 28, 2021 12:00 pm