The White House won't be rushing to make a decision on Iran's nuclear program, the White House press secretary said.

The Homeland Security secretary pledged Wednesday to show that “security and efficiency are not mutually exclusive.”

The Pentagon secretly submitted a request to Congress this month to upgrade its 30,000-pound bunker buster.

The parents of certain deceased veterans will soon be allowed to be buried in national cemeteries.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will allow "biological or legally adoptive parents" to be interred "if the deceased veteran is a hostile casualty or dies from a training-related injury," states the Federal Register's final rule, to be published Tuesday.

"[R]ecognizing the unique burden on the surviving parents of fallen service members, the act provides burial eligibility to those parents whose unmarried veteran son or daughter dies due to combat or training-related injuries," the pre-published final rule says.

The action implements part of the Veterans Benefits Act of 2010 that was "enacted" on Oct. 13, 2010. The department also clarifies that "by limiting the circumstances under which a parent is eligible for burial," the act will ensure that "gravesites [will] not be taken from those who have earned the right to burial in a national cemetery by serving their country."

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) last week criticized Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, for making comments that Rohrabacher said imply that Congress should not be holding open discussions about how best to structure Afghanistan's fledgling government.

Rohrabacher was responding to comments crocker made on Jan. 24, when he said rumors that the United States has a plan to change Afghanistan's form of government are "lies that dishonor the sacrifice of more than 1,800 American service members who have died in the cause of a unified Afghanistan."

The political fallout from the Pentagon’s plan to cut $487 billion will come into focus this week as lawmakers in both chambers return to legislative business. 

Congressional sources said the House Armed Services Committee will hold a classified briefing with Pentagon officials this week, a session that is held every year as the committee gears up for work on a defense authorization bill.

This year, the briefing is likely to be anything but routine.

The Defense secretary said the administration would do everything it could to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

Obama’s campaign sees a possibility to win over military voters, a key constituency in battlegrounds like Florida.

Leon Panetta says he believes government authorities in Pakistan knew about al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.