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Pentagon opens combat roles to women
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday....
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Washington, DC, Loretta Sanchez, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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An insider attack: Trust cost 2 lives, including SW Mich. soldier
WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a sneak attack, but not by the enemy they feared. U.S. Army Capts. Joshua Lawrence and Drew Russell were inside a small command post on an Afghan army base, wrapping up a long day of coordinating the safe arrival of nearly...
Tags: Taliban, Washington, DC, U.S. Military, Freedom of Information Act, Armed Forces
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Deficit cutters look to Pentagon budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — One war is done, another is winding down and the calls to cut the deficit are deafening. The military, a beneficiary of robust budgets for more than a decade, is coming to grips with a new reality — fewer dollars. The...
Tags: Politics, Michael G. Mullen, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Suicide Prevention: St. Joseph couple share story of loss
Suicide rates in the military are at an all-time high. Pentagon statistics for this year show nearly one service member a day commits suicide. Along with that staggering statistic comes a rise in awareness as Veterans Day approaches. Trent and Lyn...
Tags: Veterans Day, Suicide
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Ind. police dogs to be featured in reality show
DENVER, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana police dog training facility and three of the state's police departments will star in a new National Geographic reality television show that will begin airing in January. Vohne Liche Kennels owner Ken Licklider told...Tags: Peru, Drug Trafficking, Television Industry, U.S. Department of State, Television
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SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden's death
WASHINGTON (AP) — A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first...Tags: Military Justice, Barack Obama, Book, Washington, DC, Air and Space Accidents
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Marine's body returning Friday to Michigan
HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The remains of a 23-year-old Marine who was killed in Afghanistan are scheduled to return to Michigan on Friday. A spokesman for Selfridge Air National Guard Base says the body of Lance Cpl. Steven P. Stevens II of... -
Being a pill about the pill? Santorum vs US views
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans don't share Rick Santorum's absolutist take on abortion. He's out of step on women in combat. He questions the values of the two-thirds of mothers who work. He's even troubled by something as commonplace as birth...Tags: Politics, Sociology, U.S. Senate, Health, Republican Party
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A turning point in terror prosecutions
The conviction of a former Baltimore County man in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia is seen as a turning point in the long-delayed prosecution of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Majid Shoukat Khan, who on Wednesday admitted to conspiring with Osama...Tags: Jakarta (Indonesia), Litigation, Health, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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From Owings Mills High School to a cell at Guantanamo
A studious young man with an aptitude for computers, Majid Shoukat Khan was working as a database administrator in a high-rise office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
After American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the...Tags: Electronics, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Government, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Trials
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9/11 defendants refuse to participate in arraignment
Before self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was brought into court Saturday, Carole Reuben of Potomac said his arraignment would mark "the beginning of the end of the process." Her son, Todd Hayes Reuben, was a passenger on American...Tags: Defendants, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Justice System, Fort Meade (military base), Trials
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Dueling dozens
For the past year, left-leaning Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has regularly been trading views on the presidential race with writers from the other side of the political spectrum, looking for trends, points of agreement and areas of divergence. For the last...Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform (2009), Government
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