Republican lawmaker said there's no evidence national security was compromised by agents who brought prostitutes to their hotel.

Republicans issued a wide range of responses to President Obama’s surprise trip to Afghanistan and address to the nation Tuesday, with some accusing him of playing politics but other frequent critics electing not to attack Obama while he was overseas.

The more nuanced response to Obama’s Afghanistan trip, which occurred on the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, was a contrast from the days prior, when Republicans hammered Obama’s campaign ad that questioned whether presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have ordered the bin Laden mission.

Personal communications obtained by The Hill show Arizona state Sen. Kyrsten Sinema as a vocal opponent of intervention after 9/11.

President Obama gave his Afghanistan speech nine years after President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq.

President Obama's speech was timed for the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.

President Obama will address the nation from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on Tuesday night. 

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz warned the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that if Congress restores aircraft that the Pentagon wanted to scuttle, it’s got to pony up the money that goes with it.

“If you give us force structure back, give us the money, too, because the quickest way I know to a hollow force is to give us structure and no money. It’s simple as that,” Schwartz said during a forum at the Stimson Center Tuesday.

The bill is the start of an effort to prevent $600 billion in defense cuts over 10 years.

A Vietnam War veteran is accusing an often-controversial airline of refusing to refund a plane ticket when his doctors prohibited him from flying because of a terminal illness.

Retiring Marine Jerry Meekins said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News that Spirit Airlines denied his request for a refund after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

The airline told him "that's it too bad. Their policy is no refunds, regardless of circumstance," Meekins said in the interview.
 
"Had I known two weeks prior, of course, I would have never purchased the ticket," he added.