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Military Imposes 60-Day Coronavirus Ban on Troops Coming Home From Overseas

Mar 25, 2020

Military Imposes 60-Day Coronavirus Ban on Troops Coming Home From Overseas

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Military Imposes 60-Day Coronavirus Ban on Troops Coming Home From the Mideast

Mar 25, 2020

Military Imposes 60-Day Coronavirus Ban on Troops Coming Home From the Mideast

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As coronavirus cases increase, Defense Secretary Mark Esper places new restriction on Pentagon

Mar 23, 2020

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday he is again raising the protection condition on the Pentagon, which will further restrict access to one of the world’s largest office buildings.

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Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic missile

Mar 20, 2020

The United States announced Friday it has successfully tested an unarmed prototype of a hypersonic missile, a weapon that could potentially overwhelm an adversary's defense systems.

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Pentagon Takes Cautious Stance on Active Role in Virus Treatment

Mar 16, 2020

(Bloomberg) -- The Pentagon expressed caution about its ability to provide swift medical assistance in the U.

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Iraq officials: Rocket attack hits base housing US troops

Mar 14, 2020

A barrage of rockets hit a base housing U.S. and other coalition troops north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi security officials said, just days after a similar attack killed three servicemen, including two Americans.

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White House will extend Europe travel ban to Ireland, U.K., considering domestic restrictions

Mar 14, 2020

President Trump on Saturday said during a press briefing that he's considering barring travel from certain places within the United States.

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US general: 'fairly certain' North Korea has COVID-19 cases

Mar 13, 2020

The top American general in South Korea said Friday he is fairly certain North Korea has not been spared by the COVID-19 outbreak that began in neighboring China, although the North has not publicly confirmed a single case.

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CDC advises Americans to avoid 'nonessential' Europe trips. State Department urges no foreign travel

Mar 12, 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its strongest travel warning late Wednesday, urging Americans to avoid all "nonessential travel" to Europe.

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Trump authorizes U.S. military to respond after Iran-backed militia kills troops

Mar 12, 2020

Trump authorizes U.S. military to respond after Iran-backed militia kills troops

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Somalia: The Pentagon's new 'endless war'?

Mar 07, 2020

The Pentagon has been issuing near daily announcements of new strikes against the Islamic militants of Shebab in Somalia, seemingly without affecting the Al-Qaeda affiliate's ability to destabilize the country, in what is looking like a new "endless war" for the United States.

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Pentagon Sends Troops to Southern Border as SCOTUS Prepares to Decide on ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy

Mar 06, 2020

The Pentagon announced on Thursday that it will send a crisis force of 160 troops to two points on the U.

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Pentagon Linguist Charged with Exposing U.S. Spies to Hezbollah

Mar 04, 2020

A contractor for the Pentagon has been charged with providing classified U.

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US staged 'limited' nuclear battle against Russia in war game

Feb 24, 2020

The Pentagon has briefed about the simulated exchange in a move that could signal readiness to fight and win nuclear conflictThe US conducted a military exercise last week which simulated a “limited” nuclear exchange with Russia, a senior Pentagon official has confirmed.

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Bloomberg Killed the Best Chance at Justice for the 9/11 Attacks

Feb 23, 2020

If it wasn’t for Mike Bloomberg, the alleged perpetrators of the worst terrorist attack in American history would likely have been convicted of mass murder by now.

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Trump's push to install people loyal to him in law enforcement, intelligence appears to be well underway

Feb 21, 2020

President Trump's replacement of acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, a respected career official in a historically nonpartisan role, with U.S.

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Oracle Employee Speaks Out Against Her Boss Raising Money for Trump

Feb 19, 2020

Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, one of the largest software companies in the world, hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s re-election on Wednesday at the tech titan’s Southern California estate.

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Deadly clash in Syria a vivid reminder of US troops' ill-defined mission

Feb 13, 2020

Since Trump abruptly ended his pact with the Kurds, the US presence in the country’s north-east has been stuck in a quagmireAmerican battle trucks stuck in the mud, besieged by angry Kurdish villagers, and the Russian army trying to mediate their escape.

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Alexander Vindman Fired from White House after Serving as Impeachment Witness

Feb 07, 2020

Alexander Vindman Fired from White House after Serving as Impeachment Witness

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Inside Colombia’s ‘Air Chapo’ Cocaine Shipping Scandal

Feb 07, 2020

CALI, Colombia—In Pablo Escobar’s day, in the 1980s and early 1990s, the erstwhile Cocaine King moved mass quantities of the drug out of Colombia.

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White House Weighs Ouster of Aide Who Testified Against Trump

Feb 06, 2020

(Bloomberg) -- The White House is weighing a plan to dismiss Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council after he testified in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, preparing to position the move as part of a broader effort to shrink the foreign policy bureaucracy, two people familiar with the matter said.

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Russia says alarmed by U.S. deployment of low-yield nuclear missiles

Feb 05, 2020

Russia is alarmed by the U.S. Navy's decision to deploy low-yield nuclear missiles on submarines since they heighten the risk of a limited nuclear war, a Russian official said on Wednesday.

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Trump impeachment trial: Democrats warn Trump 'will do it again' if acquitted

Feb 03, 2020

* Adam Schiff: ‘History will not be kind to Donald Trump’ * Closing arguments after Republicans refused to call witnesses * Impeachment trial: live coverageWarning that “history will not be kind to Donald Trump,” the Democratic representative Adam Schiff mounted an impassioned closing argument in the Senate impeachment trial on Monday, urging the chamber to hold the president to account.

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Trump appears to confirm killing of al-Qaida leader in Yemen

Feb 01, 2020

* New York Times reports Qassim al-Rimi of AQAP believed dead * President retweets intelligence analyst and reporterDonald Trump appeared on Saturday to confirm the death of Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen, through a series of tweets.

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Pentagon identifies 2 Air Force airmen killed in Afghanistan

Jan 29, 2020

The Pentagon on Wednesday released the names of two Air Force officers killed in the crash of their Bombardier E-11A electronic surveillance plane in Afghanistan.

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White House Threatens to Veto Legislation Aimed at Curbing Trump’s Military Power in Iran

Jan 28, 2020

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto legislation proposed by Democrats that would limit President Trump's military options and require him to seek congressional authorization before taking military action against Iran, saying the proposed constraints would “embolden our enemies.

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US military jet crashes in Taliban territory in Afghanistan

Jan 27, 2020

A US military jet crashed in mountainous territory in eastern Afghanistan, where there is a heavy Taliban presence, the Pentagon confirmed Monday, rejecting the insurgents' suggestions that it was shot down.

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Three Rockets Fired at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, One Person Injured

Jan 27, 2020

Three Rockets Fired at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, One Person Injured

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France warns U.S. against pulling troops from fight against Islamists in Africa's Sahel

Jan 27, 2020

WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - France delivered a stern warning on Monday against possible U.S. troop cuts in West Africa, where groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State are expanding their foothold.

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Pentagon: 34 US troops had brain injuries from Iran's strike

Jan 24, 2020

Pentagon: 34 US troops had brain injuries from Iran's strike

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Fear and Confusion as Fighters Overran a U.S. Airfield

Jan 22, 2020

WASHINGTON -- Armed with rifles and explosives, about a dozen al-Shabab fighters destroyed an American surveillance plane as it was taking off and ignited an hourslong gunfight this month on a sprawling military base in Kenya that houses U.

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Sanders Floats ‘Moratorium on 99 Percent’ of Deportations, Demolition of Border Wall

Jan 20, 2020

Sanders Floats ‘Moratorium on 99 Percent’ of Deportations, Demolition of Border Wall

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‘Sorry for Lying to You for 13 Years’: Iranian State TV Host Turns on Regime after Ukrainian Jet Downing

Jan 20, 2020

A number of Iranian TV hosts and other public personalities have denounced the regime in the wake of Iran's missile strike on a Ukrainian passenger jet that killed 176 people after the military mistook the jet for an enemy target.

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Iran Could Still Strike Back at the U.S

Jan 20, 2020

How might Iran respond to the death of Qasem Soleimani? Ever since the Trump administration’s January 3 killing of Soleimani, the Islamic Republic’s top military commander, that question has been on the mind of policymakers in Washington and the American public at large.

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US military training for Saudi students could resume soon

Jan 16, 2020

U.S. training for more than 800 Saudi Arabian military students could be restarted "in the coming days," the Pentagon said Thursday, nearly six weeks after a shooting by one Saudi trainee killed three sailors at a Florida base.

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US House Of Representatives Delivers Articles Of Impeachment To Senate

Jan 15, 2020

The US House of Representatives has voted to send articles of impeachment against president Donald Trump to the Senate nearly one month after voting to impeach him, clearing the way for his trial to begin.

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F-35 logistics system to be reinvented and renamed, official says

Jan 14, 2020

The computer-based logistics system of the F-35 stealth fighter jet made by Lockheed Martin , which has been plagued by delays, will be replaced by another network made by the same company, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday.

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Bernie Sanders says his potential running mate 'will not be an old white guy'

Jan 13, 2020

Bernie Sanders says his potential running mate 'will not be an old white guy'

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Trump Authorized Soleimani Strike in June As Potential Response to Killing of Americans: Report

Jan 13, 2020

President Trump in June authorized the option of killing senior Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani if Iranian aggression led to the death of Americans, NBC reported on Monday.

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Iran crisis: Trump's own defence secretary admits he 'didn't see' evidence of imminent attacks from Tehran

Jan 12, 2020

The US defence secretary has revealed he “didn’t see” any specific evidence indicating an imminent threat from Iran before Donald Trump ordered an airstrike which killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani earlier this month.

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White House press secretary dismisses critics, saying she's 'unorthodox' like Trump

Jan 12, 2020

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham is defending the fact that she doesn't hold regular press briefings, saying it's because President Trump is "unorthodox in everything he's done" and his "press secretary and everyone else in the administration is reflective of that.

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Saudi military trainees to be expelled from U.S. after Florida shooting: CNN

Jan 11, 2020

More than a dozen Saudi servicemen who are training at U.S. military bases will be expelled from the United States in the aftermath of a Pentagon review prompted by the deadly Dec. 6 shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer at an American naval base in Florida, CNN reported on Saturday.

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Pentagon: 'aggressive' Russian naval ship nearly caused Arabian Sea collision

Jan 10, 2020

The Pentagon accused the Russian navy on Friday of aggressive actions in the Arabian Sea after one of its ships very nearly collided with a US Navy destroyer.

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U.S. Army plans to expand Asian security efforts to counter China

Jan 10, 2020

The U.S. Army plans to deploy two specialized task forces to the Pacific capable of conducting information, electronic, cyber and missile operations against Beijing, a Pentagon official said on Friday.

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College Professor Out After Joke Suggesting Iran List U.S. Cultural Targets

Jan 09, 2020

An adjunct professor is no longer on staff at Babson College in Massachusetts after what he described as a “bad attempt at humor” in a Facebook post, in which he said Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei “should tweet a list of 52 sites of beloved American cultural heritage that he would bomb.

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Tehran Plane Crash: Boris Johnson Says ‘Body Of Information’ Indicates Iran Missile Shot Down Ukrainian Jet

Jan 09, 2020

Boris Johnson has said “a body of information” suggests that the Ukraine airliner that crashed in Tehran was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile and “may well have been unintentional”.

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Germany Withdraws Some Troops From Iraq Over Iran Tensions

Jan 07, 2020

(Bloomberg) -- Germany has temporarily moved some troops from Iraq due to safety concerns following the U.

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Rand Paul: ‘You’d Have to Be Brain-Dead’ to Believe Killing Soleimani will Bring Iran to Negotiating Table

Jan 07, 2020

Rand Paul: ‘You’d Have to Be Brain-Dead’ to Believe Killing Soleimani will Bring Iran to Negotiating Table

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Maybe Pelosi’s Impeachment Delay Is Working

Jan 06, 2020

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- One striking thing about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to delay sending articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate is that she doesn’t actually have any real leverage.

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Pentagon mistakenly releases draft memo promising withdrawal from Iraq

Jan 06, 2020

Pentagon mistakenly releases draft memo promising withdrawal from Iraq

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