©2015 Bloomberg News NMTHUZ6JIJV2 (Bloomberg) — The first F-35 jets ready for combat won’t be able to protect forces in ground combat as well as the nearly 40-year-old A-10s the Pentagon wants to retire, according to the Defense Department’s chief weapons tester. Compared with the lumbering A-10, known as the Warthog,
Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NKCQDB6K50Y3 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama said neither a judge’s ruling nor a standoff with Congress that threatens to shut down the Homeland Security Department would derail his plan to ease deportations of undocumented immigrants. “Part of the message that I’m sending is if you qualified for the