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The Man Who Paints Washington's Portraits May Be The Most Powerful Guy In DC
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates had his official portrait unveiled in a small ceremony in the Pentagon Tuesday while the rest of the East Coast hunkered down for Hurricane Sandy. Defense...
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Sandy May Have Uncovered An Old 500-Pound Bomb At The Guantanamo Ferry Landing
The U.S. military shut down a ferry landing at the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sent for a bomb disposal team from Florida on Tuesday after Hurricane Sandy churned up a suspicious object in...
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The Russian Plane That Killed Poland's President In 2010 May Have Been Packed...
Polish investigators conducting the inquiry into the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others in 2010 have detected "chemical structures similar to those in high-energy materials...
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These Schools Reaching Out For Military Vets Have Brilliant Recruiting...
For some veterans, transitioning from military service to college life is a bigger challenge than they expected. The wheels of the VA churn slowly, making payments a bit late. Post-traumatic stress...
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Celebratory Gunfire Sets Off Inferno And Kills 25 At Saudi Wedding
A fire sparked by celebratory gunfire has killed at least 25 people at a wedding in Saudi Arabia, media reported on Wednesday. The bullets struck electric decorations that triggered a short-circuit,...
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Gary Johnson's Anti-Drone Anti-NDAA Platform May Take Out Obama In Colorado
Barack Obama is due to campaign in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday night to fire up this liberal bastion and try to snuff out a libertarian challenge which threatens to siphon crucial votes.The president...
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Marco Rubio On Benghazi: 'There's Classified Information That People Should...
Blown away by Hurricane Sandy: News of the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.But the coverage is returning as Sandy's floodwaters recede and Republicans press the Obama Administration for more...
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The Air Force's Hurricane Hunter Squad Started With A Barroom Dare
As the East Coast is battered by Hurricane Sandy and the Atlantic City boardwalk washes into the Atlantic Ocean, it’s hard not to think about the pilots and aircrews who actually fly into these...
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How To Get Into Manhattan If You Have Fewer Than 3 People In Your Car
We were taking photos of a flooded out fire station in Hoboken when we heard an announcer on the radio declare, "The 3-person rule is being strictly enforced on any crossing into Manhattan."Luckily,...
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Help Is On The Way For The Battle-Induced Rage Affecting Too Many Marines
Marine Maj. Steve Taylor, who had unknowingly suffered a concussion in Afghanistan after a roadside explosion, was at a takeout pizza dinner with his family at Camp Lejeune, N.C. There was some teasing...
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Navy SEALs Advised On This Video Game And It's A Giant Flop
Medal of Honor: Warfighter is EA's second attempt to carve out its own slice of Activision's mighty Call of Duty franchise. In this it is not alone. 2007's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been one of...
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There's A Reason Why All Of The Reports About Benghazi Are So Confusing
At this point it's clear that the U.S. had something to hide at Benghazi, and that's why reports coming out of the Libyan city have been so confusing.Two key details about the the Sept. 11 attack in...
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Iran President Ahmadinejad Just Got Shredded In Front Of His Own Parliament
Iran's parliament on Sunday summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a grilling over his handling of last month's currency crisis which saw the rial plunge 40 percent against the dollar, state media...
View ArticleSocial Media Is Saving Soldiers' Lives In Ways You'd Never Expect
“TROOP IN TROUBLE” was the beginning of the status update posted last week by the military Facebook page Awesome Shit My Drill Sergeant Said. The humor-based page that originally started as a place for...
View ArticleThe Types Of Punishments In Tribal Law Are Simply Inhuman
I came across an article in al-Jazeera that discusses a case of traditional justice where over a dozen girls were handed from one tribal group to its rival to help settle a blood feud. It sounded like...
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There's An Untold Story Of Heroism In The 'Mexican' Marine Corps, And Here's...
Through heavily accented Spanglish the first thing he ever said to me was, “I am your Corporal and I do not like the d*** sucking.” I would come to find later that he had a robot black heart tattooed...
View ArticleThe Russians Are Waging A Counter-Insurgency Battle That No One Is Talking About
While everyone in the States was busy thinking about/ignoring the debates, a Russian Anti-Terrorism force launched an operation that resulted in 49 militants killed and 219 people taken into custody.As...
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Israel Might Have Struck Iran In 2010 If It Weren't For The Mossad And A...
Israel's prime minister and defence minister ordered the country's military to prepare for a strike against Iran's nuclear installations two years ago, according to a television documentary to be aired...
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Legendary Syrian Rebel Sniper Takes Inspiration From A Jude Law Film
One of the most fearsome rebel killers in Aleppo takes his nick-name from the star of the film Enemy at the Gates that featured Jude Law, the British actor.Jude Law probably doesn't know it, but...
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Victoria's Secret Boots Hundreds Of National Guardsmen From Their Own Armory
Victoria's Secret won't allow their goodwill to get in the way of a good show.On Nov. 2, the Friday after hurricane sandy hit, Wired's Noah Shactman published an article about Victoria's Secret in New...
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