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RAW VIDEO: Dash-cam sheds light on plane crash that killed 5 from Michigan
New video seems to confirm that a civilian cargo plane that crashed at Bagram Air Field Monday, killing all seven people aboard, was NOT taken down by enemy action. Five of seven people killed in the crash are from Michigan. The Taliban quickly...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Transportation Safety Board, Hamid Karzai, Armed Conflicts, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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US may leave no troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it might leave no troops in Afghanistan after December 2014, an option that defies the Pentagon's view that thousands of troops may be needed to contain al-Qaida and to strengthen Afghan forces....
Tags: International Military Interventions, Hamid Karzai, Washington, DC, The Wall Street Journal, Wars and Interventions
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NATO video includes errors about city, president
CHICAGO (AP) — It seems NATO may also stand for Not All That Observant. A video posted on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization website ahead of its upcoming summit in Chicago got a few things wrong: identifying Chicago as Illinois' capital,...Tags: Politics, International Organizations
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FBI: Men unknowingly put fake bombs at Ohio bridge
CLEVELAND (AP) — Five men charged with plotting to bomb a bridge linking two wealthy Cleveland suburbs placed what they thought were real explosives at the site and repeatedly tried to detonate them using text messages from cellphones, according...
Tags: Explosions, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Prosecution, Government, Terrorism
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Afghans: US paid $50,000 per shooting spree death
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday. The families of...
Tags: Executive Branch, Explosions, Government, Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan
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US Army: Brigadier general, a Notre Dame grad, has died in Afghanistan
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Army says a 49-year-old brigadier general has died in Afghanistan. A statement posted on the Fort Hood website says Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died Friday in Kabul of apparent natural causes. Hildner has...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Kabul (Afghanistan), Afghanistan, Fort Hood (military base), Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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NATO, Afghan army kill at least 13 Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan and NATO officials say at least 13 insurgents have been killed in eastern Afghanistan after gunbattles and a coalition airstrike against a building occupied by Taliban fighters. Coalition spokesman Capt. Justin...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Elections, Rebellions, Terrorism
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GOP hopefuls challenge Obama on Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopefuls are focusing on Iran as a weak spot in President Barack Obama's foreign policy record, and they're reviving many of the arguments that neoconservative proponents of armed intervention against Tehran...Tags: Defense, Washington, DC, Weaponry, Tehran (Iran), Newt Gingrich
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Tea party reps split on war cash for US in Libya
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House's tea party caucus is deeply split over whether to defund President Barack Obama's military intervention in Libya. The 59 spending-conscious Republicans oppose Obama's decision to participate in the NATO-led operation...Tags: Indiana, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Republican Party, Mike Pence
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Silence less golden in movies with talking, texts
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It seems like such a quaint notion: Folks would go to the movie theater, buy their tickets at the box office, then sit down, shut up and pay attention for two hours to what was on the screen. Now, the piercing glow of cell phones...Tags: Arizona, Cell Phones, Real Estate, Santa Clarita (Los Angeles, California), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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President Obama strongly defends U.S. military action in Libya
AP White House CorrespondentWASHINGTON (AP) — Defending the first war launched on his watch, President Barack Obama declared Monday night that the United States intervened in Libya to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the world's conscience and "been a...Tags: Defense, Libya, Washington, DC, Elections, George W. Bush
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