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Kellan Howell

Kellan Howell

khowell@washingtontimes.com

Kellan Howell is a continuous news writer for The Washington Times, covering defense and national security. Originally from Williamsburg, Virginia, Kellan graduated from James Madison University where she received bachelor's degrees in media arts and design and international affairs with a concentration in western European politics.
During her time at JMU, she interned for British technology and business news website "ITPro" in London and worked as a freelance reporter for The Washington Guardian. She was also an executive editor of 22807, a new student magazine covering arts and culture in the JMU community.
Kellan can be reached at khowell@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Kellan Howell

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, NOV. 17, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 22, 1963 photo from the White House via the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president as Jacqueline Kennedy stands at his side in the cabin of the presidential plane on the ground at Love Field in Dallas. Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a Kennedy appointee to the Federal court, left, administers the oath. In background, from left are, Associate Press Secretary Malcolm Kilduff, holding microphone; Jack Valenti, administrative assistant to Johnson; Rep. Albert Thomas, D-Texas.; Lady Bird Johnson; and Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas. (AP Photo/White House, Cecil Stoughton, via the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston)

CIA confirmed Oswald contacted Cubans, Soviets before assassination, memo shows

Three days after John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, U.S. intelligence officials told President Lyndon B. Johnson that they had confirmed that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had recently traveled to Mexico City to visit both the Cuban and Soviet embassies, according to a half-century old briefing memo declassified on Wednesday.

September 16, 2015
U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, one of three Americans that tackled a heavily armed gunman on a Paris-bound train, arrives at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015.  Stone, who has been undergoing medical treatment in Germany since he and his two childhood friends,  National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and Sacramento college student Anthony Sadler subdued the gunman on a passenger train Aug. 21.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Spencer Stone, U.S. airman and Paris train hero, to be promoted

U.S. Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, who is now considered a hero after he took down a gunman on aug. 21 aboard a train headed from Amsterdam to Paris, will be promoted to staff sergeant, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh announced Tuesday.

September 15, 2015
U.S. Army Pfc. Amy Alexanders dresses in her Marine Standard battle gear before taking part in a physical demands study in Ft. Stewart, Ga. Congress is prodding the armed forces to come up with a special line of women's combat boots, in different styles, as studies show that military women are more susceptible to stress fractures from marching and training. (Associated Press)

Marines: Ray Mabus ‘threw us under the bus’ on female combat report

Marines involved in an experiment evaluating gender-integrated infantry units say they feel betrayed by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus after he criticized the results of a nine-month study that found women are injured more frequently and shoot less accurately in combat scenarios.

September 15, 2015