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While we’re pretty meh on U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton’s presidential aspirations, he has a great idea with his call to service announced Sunday.
The Iraq War combat veteran’s plan proposes giving education or job training benefits, based on years of service, to the 33.4 million Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 who step up to serve. Someone who serves three years would have 100% tuition paid at an in-state school. For job training, those benefits would be $14,000 for one year; $19,000 for two years; or $24,000 for three years.
The Lynn Post Office will be rededicated on Friday to the city’s former mayor and postmater, Thomas P. Costin Jr., the U.S. Postal Service announced.
When he was elected in 1956 at age 29, Costin was the youngest serving mayor in Lynn’s history. Costin headed a registration drive for then-candidate John F. Kennedy in 1958, according to a Globe article at the time. After he was elected, President Kennedy appointed Costin to Postmaster of Lynn in 1961.
The Trump Administration is turning up the heat on Iran, broadcasting a new plan to send as many as 120,000 U.S. forces to the Middle East to counter purported “identified, credible threats” from Iran.
But in the world of the Pentagon, there are plans you present to politicians, and then there are real plans. And three U.S. military officials involved in planning and overseeing military forces in the region tell TIME that no actual, executable plan, or anything like it, exists for a large-scale troop deployment to the Gulf.
Originally published in the Washington Examiner.
Let’s stop kidding ourselves: Americans are using cannabis, and many of them are veterans.
According to the American Legion, more than 1 in 5 veterans currently use cannabis. A vast majority of veteran households (93%) support medical cannabis research, and a large majority want the government to offer it as federally legal medical treatment.
Seth Moulton, the Massachusetts congressman who’s best known for trying to topple Nancy Pelosi after the 2018 midterms, is insisting that voters are over that, and that the pair of Bostonians who just greeted him are atypical. We’re sitting in a loud sandwich shop near the statehouse, and a woman has just stopped by our table to wish him luck in his long-shot presidential run, while the man at her side looks more skeptical, because, he tells Moulton, “I like Nancy Pelosi!” Moulton, of course, is not running a presidential campaign about the Speaker of the House.
WASHINGTON — The intelligence that caused the White House to escalate its warnings about a threat from Iran came from photographs of missiles on small boats in the Persian Gulf that were put on board by Iranian paramilitary forces, three American officials said.
Overhead imagery showed fully assembled missiles, stoking fears that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps would fire them at United States naval ships. Additional pieces of intelligence picked up threats against commercial shipping and potential attacks by Arab militias with Iran ties on American troops in Iraq.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently offered a vigorous defense of the Veterans Health Administration, arguing that its problems were a "myth" peddled by Republicans who want to privatize the system. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," she said.