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President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden warns of Trump officials’ ‘roadblocks’ to transition

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE - Associated Press

President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a virtual meeting with members of his national security and foreign policy agency review teams at The Queen theater, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Joe Biden knocks Trump administration for ‘irresponsibility’ over lack of transition cooperation

By David Sherfinski and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

‘Patently false’: Pentagon fires back at Joe Biden as fight over transition meetings turns ugly

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. civilian control of the military myth illustration by The Washington Times

Getting over the ‘civilian control of the military’ myth

By Abraham Wagner

FILE - in this July 28, 2009, file photo, Norm Bellingham, an Olympic gold medalist in kayaking and chief operating officer of the USOC, speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Gold medalist and former Olympic executive Bellingham and Olympian Eli Bremer have been named to a congressional committee to study possible reforms in America’s Olympic system. (AP Photo/File)

Olympian Bellingham recommended for congressional panel

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden salutes as he arrives for an event with local union members in the backyard of a home in Lancaster, Pa., Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Pentagon says transition meetings will resume after holidays; Biden team demands immediate restart

By Ben Wolfgang and David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Pentagon announces COVID-19 vaccination pilot program

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump's campaign advisor Corey Lewandowski, listens to a speaker during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Corey Lewandowski, David Bossie — Trump allies — tapped for Pentagon’s Defense Business Board

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Neighbors want to know what Sauget incinerator is burning

By ERIC SCHMID - Associated Press

President-elect Joe Biden pauses as he speaks during a virtual meeting with the United States Conference of Mayors at The Queen theater Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Presidential transition begins at the Pentagon

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This Jan. 4, 2020, photo shows a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C. The fight over removing the names of Confederate generals from U.S. Army bases, like Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, has become a national debate. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) **FILE**

Black Caucus: Renaming Confederate bases must be part of final defense bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 15, 2020 file photo, Chief of Space Operations at United States Space Force Gen. John Raymond, left, and Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, right, hold the U.S. Space Force flag as President Donald Trump walks past it, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. On Sept. 1, 2020, Space Force, the first new U.S. military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947 swore in some 20 members stationed at the Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar in its first foreign deployment. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Joe Biden pressured to scrap Space Force

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

San Diego attorney James McElroy poses for a portrait Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, in San Diego. McElroy calls his bond with his adopted Ethiopian son whose father was fatally beaten by white supremacists &quot;the best fee that I ever get out of a pro bono case.&quot; The 1988 murder of Mulugeta Saraw in Portland, Oregon, brought them together and also put McElroy face-to-face with Tom Metzger, the white supremacist who was found liable for the death and forced to pay $12.5 million. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

White supremacists killed Ethiopian man but his son thrives

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Top Pentagon policy chief resigns a day after Esper’s ouster from DOD

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This photo shows the outside of a Charleston, S.C., condominium belonging to Eugene Zurlo on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. The Trump administration recently gave the longtime Republican political donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, noting Zurlo's &quot;manufacturing facilities&quot; in Charleston. An AP investigation found no manufacturing facilities. The company operates out of Zurlo's condo. He and his partners may now be in line for as much as $65 million in taxpayer money. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Trump admin funds plasma company based in owner’s condo

By RICHARD LARDNER and JASON DEAREN - Associated Press

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Pentagon awards Texas A&M $100 million to manage hypersonic weapons alliance

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Wednesday morning, Oct. 7, 2020. The Supreme Court is agreeing to review a Trump administration policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings. As is typical, the court did not comment Monday in announcing it would hear the case. Because the court’s calendar is already full through the end of the year, the justices will not hear the case until 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

High court to review two cases involving Trump border policy

By JESSICA GRESKO and MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Lori Gonzalez, left, and Rachel Spray carry flowers to the temporary grave marker of Gonzalez's sister and Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center nurse, Sandra Oldfield, at the Sanger Cemetery in Sanger, Calif., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. Oldfield died after being exposed to the novel coronavirus. Workers at the hospital said they did not have the proper personal protective equipment. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

US medical supply chains failed, and COVID deaths followed

By JULIET LINDERMAN and MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

Beaumont researchers get grant to study bladder condition

Associated Press

In this file photo, Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper speaks before a meeting with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

‘No change’ to Pentagon alert levels despite Trump COVID-19 diagnosis

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times