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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will face a grilling from Congressional Republicans on Thursday over his secretative hospital stay in early January.

Democratic and Republican senators alike expressed their skepticism of the way the Biden administration is handling the Houthi attacks.

The Pentagon is weighing whether to tap into the last remaining source of funding it has for military aid to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia even without guarantees that those funds will be replenished by Congress, multiple defense officials told CNN.

Evgueni Maloletka/AP/File In this July 2022 photo, Ukrainian military personnel prepare to fire on Russian positions from a US-supplied M777 howitzer in the

The U.S. Department of Defense is considering making use of around $4 billion remaining in the presidential drawdown authority (PDA) funds to deliver critical military aid to Ukraine, CNN reported on Feb. 28, citing U.S. defense officials.

The department is weighing options to keep arms flowing to ammunition-starved Ukraine, but there's no replacement for the aid package stalled in Congress.

By Natasha Bertrand and Oren Liebermann, CNN

The Defense Department still has around $4 billion in presidential drawdown authority funds available for Ukraine, which allows the Pentagon to draw from its own stockpiles to send military equipment to Kyiv.

WASHINGTON: A US military service member has died, after setting himself on fire in an apparent act of protest against the war in Gaza, outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington on Sunday (Feb 2

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