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He was 24 and had been in the Helmand Province in Afghanistan - "the worst of the hellhole" - for maybe five months, his dad said. The proud Marine had a new wife back in Georgia, and he was going to be shipping home to her soon.
Two of the Confederate Army's best-known leaders have streets named for them in a place not normally associated with the Southern side of the Civil War - New York City. Now some elected officials are trying to undo it.
In this Wednesday, July 29, 2015, file photo, Nick Korniloff, second from right, talks with Tequesta police officers outside of his home, in Tequesta, Fla. Korniloff is the stepfather of Perry Cohen, who disappeared along with Austin Stephanos when they went out on a boat to go fishing from Tequesta in 2015.
The Coast Guard says more than 160 hoax calls have been made across the Great Lakes so far this year. Coast Guard along Great Lakes seeing increase in hoax calls The Coast Guard says more than 160 hoax calls have been made across the Great Lakes so far this year.
U.S. Coast Guard stations that watch over the Great Lakes say they're seeing a huge jump in fake distress calls. The Coast Guard says more than 160 hoax calls have been made across the Great Lakes so far this year.
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The Pentagon is delaying a decision on allowing transgender people to enlist in the military for six months, according to a memo obtained by CNN. "We will use this additional time to evaluate more carefully the impact of such accessions on readiness and lethality," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis wrote in the memo.
In the fall of '16, Americans elected a presidential candidate with a well-deserved reputation for partisanship. Once inaugurated, he surprised his countrymen by seeking to end party politics and usher in a time of unity among Americans rarely seen in our history.
As a teenager in Holyoke in the 1950s, John J. “Jack” Sbrega dreamed of one day coaching baseball and teaching at a local prep school near his hometown.  He saw himself on the baseball diamond “with leather patches on my jacket. Maybe I'd take up pipe smoking,” he said with a laugh.  He aimed to follow the footsteps of his dad - a high school teacher and professor at Westfield State College, now Westfield State University.  “Education was something I grew up with in the house,” he said.
Two House Democrats want to compel the Air Force to detail how much has been spent on trips that President Donald Tr... Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's asked the new leader of New York City's troubled public transit system to do a series of urgent reviews of the agency's management and aging infrastructure. The endangered killer whales that frequent the inland waters of Washington state are having pregnancy problems because they can't find enough to eat.
Sometime on Sunday the House Appropriations Committee released its "Chairman's Mark" of the Fiscal Year 2018 spending bill for the Pentagon. And late Monday night the Defense subcommittee met in closed session to produce the opening salvo in the Pentagon spending battle.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea. Porter, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.
The restoration efforts at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum are constant and costly. Thanks to the Cape May County Open Space Historic Preservation Program, museum staff will be able to undertake a large project that has been on the list of recommended repairs since the museum's inception in 1997; restoring the bottom sections of the telescopic hangar doors on the east and west sides.
"We fought in every war this country's ever engaged in," said Gregory, an Air Force veteran who served in the first Iraq war. "I want to be the last American that dies because I didn't have access to health care," said Gregory.
China's increasingly powerful navy launched its most advanced domestically produced destroyer on Wednesday, at a time of rising competition with other naval powers such as the United States, Japan and India. The first 10,000-ton Type 055 entered the water at Shanghai's Jiangnan Shipyard on Wednesday morning, the navy said in a statement.
China's increasingly powerful navy launched its most advanced domestically produced destroyer on Wednesday, at a time of rising competition with other naval powers such as the United States, Japan and India. The first 10,000-ton Type 055 entered the water at Shanghai's Jiangnan Shipyard on Wednesday morning, the navy said in a news release.
U.S. Sen. John Thune said Tuesday that he applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers for initiating a formal process to withdraw the Waters of the United States rule. He said the EPA and the Corps now begin a replacement rulemaking process that will gather input and re-evaluate the definition of WOTUS.
Phil Burgess is president of the Annapolis Institute and author of A A'Reboot! What To Do When Your Career Is Over But Your Life IsnA A't.A A' Send your post-career story or nominations of interesting people with good stories or other comments to pburgess@annapolisinstitute.net. Phil Burgess is president of the Annapolis Institute and author of A A'Reboot! What To Do When Your Career Is Over But Your Life IsnA A't.A A' Send your post-career story or nominations of interesting people with good stories or other comments to pburgess@annapolisinstitute.net.
A warning from the White House to Syrian President Bashar Assad about another possible chemical weapons attack was also aimed at two of Assad's key backers, Russia and Iran, the U.S ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday. During testimony before the House panel on foreign operations, Nikki Haley also called Assad "barbaric" and said she can't envision a "healthy Syria" if he remains in power.
The European Union's competition watchdog has slapped a record 2.42 billion euro fine on internet giant Google for breaching antitrust rules with its online shopping service. The European Union's competition watchdog has slapped a record 2.42 billion euro fine on internet giant Google for breaching antitrust rules with its online shopping service.