Rep. Judy Chu and several Democrats introduced legislation Monday that would call for a new hazing definition in the Uniform Code of Military Justice and create a national database to track incidents of military hazing.

Chu has pushed Congress and the military to do more to stop military hazing after her nephew, Lance Cpl. Harry Lew, committed suicide in Afghanistan last year after a hazing incident.

American and Chinese defense officials tried to quell an increasingly adversarial relationship in the realm of cyberwarfare this week, in an attempt to keep U.S.-Sino tensions from boiling over. 

The House Appropriations Defense subcommittee approved the defense spending bill on a voice vote Tuesday, moving forward the $608 billion legislation.

The bill was quickly approved in a closed-door session Tuesday morning, which is a near opposite to Wednesday’s markup of the defense authorization bill in the House Armed Services Committee, where a marathon session is expected with hordes of amendments.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Tuesday he wants to ensure that the pilots who spoke out publicly about safety concerns on the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jet don't "have their wings taken away" or face administrative action as a result.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday shed new light on an al Qaeda attempt to blow up an airliner, saying the plot showed a “new level of sophistication” by the terror group.

The House Budget Committee late Monday approved a bill turning off most of the $109 billion across-the-board automatic spending cut slated to take place Jan. 2, by a 21 to 13 vote.

The bill removes $78 billion in discretionary cuts that had been triggered by the failure of last year's debt supercommittee. To make up the rest, it lowers the appropriations spending cap for next year by $19 billion and keeps in place about $12 billion in automatic cuts to mandatory spending, including Medicare spending.

Earlier in the day, the Budget committee had reported out a bill by a vote of 21 to 9 that would cut spending by $261 billion over ten years. That bill, offered as a replacement to the automatic spending sequester, was called for in the House-passed budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Read more...

The CIA broke up an attempt by al Qaeda to blow up a commercial airliner destined for the United States, according to the National Security Council. 

Ambassadors usually serve three-year tours, but Cameron Munter has only been in his post since October 2010.

For the second time, top Pentagon brass will brief leaders of the Senate Armed Service Committee on the ongoing investigation into the military's involvement in Secret Service's Colombian sex scandal.