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Military injustice
The recent study estimating that there may have been 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military last year stirred a lot of tough talk from the Pentagon and the White House over the past 24 hours. But the question is whether that outrage will translate...Tags: Armed Forces, U.S. Senate, Sexual Assault, U.S. Congress, Sex Crimes
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Perez vote delayed as confirmation fight intensifies
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee vote on Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez was postponed hours before it was set to take place Wednesday, highlighting what appears to be a growing partisan fight over the confirmation of the former Maryland official. ...Tags: Jay Carney, Health and Safety at Work, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Pentagon reports sharp rise in sex assaults in military
The Pentagon estimated Tuesday that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted last year, 36 percent more than a year earlier, in a trend so severe that senior officials warned it could threaten recruiting and retention of military personnel....Tags: U.S. Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Armed Forces, U.S. Senate, Sexual Assault
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Navy reducing flight hours due to budget cuts
— Budget cuts will force the Navy to scale back flying hours for some of its East Coast-based pilots, sacrificing a degree of readiness in order to save money. Naval Air Force Atlantic will "probably" reduce flying hours for pilots in two...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Layoffs and Downsizing, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Unemployment
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Air Force sex-assault chief arrested on sexual battery charges
This post has been updated, as indicated below.The man leading a U.S. Air Force program responsible for preventing sexual assault has been arrested on suspicion of drunkenly groping a woman in an Arlington, Va., parking lot, officials said Monday. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41 -- shown with several...Tags: Assault, Sexual Assault, Sexual Misconduct, U.S. Department of Defense, Ronald Reagan
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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Bashar Assad, John McCain, United Nations, Lindsey O. Graham
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Schiff presses for transfer of military aircraft to Forest Service for firefighting help
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and nearly a dozen other members of Congress this week asked for an update from the Department of Defense on sending surplus military aircraft to the U.S. Forest Service, aircraft that could assist in fighting wildfires....
Tags: National Defense Authorization Act, Defense, Military Equipment, Aerospace Manufacturing, U.S. Department of Defense
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U.S. Suspects Israeli Airstrike Inside Syria
The U.S. government believes Israel has conducted an airstrike inside Syria, two unnamed officials were reported as saying late Friday. U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies suspect that Israeli aircraft probably struck targets Thursday or...Tags: Government, Bashar Assad, Human Rights, Religious Conflicts, Israel
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Pentagon: Expect decision on furloughs 'soon'
At one time, the Defense Department expected to furlough its civilian employees 22 days. Now the estimate is 14. When will the news be official? Soon. That was the word Wednesday from Pentagon press secretary George Little during a briefing with...
Tags: Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Layoffs and Downsizing, Employees, Defense, Unemployment
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CIA buys trouble in Afghanistan
In a time when the whetted and arbitrary deficit-reduction knife is cutting bone out of critical U.S. government programs, the image of shopping bags stuffed with CIA cash handed off on a monthly basis to Afghan President Hamid Karzai — who reigns...
Tags: Afghanistan, Government, Hamid Karzai, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud
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LETTER: Leave Syria To The U.N.
I believe the United States, where I was born and grew up, has become very sick and suffers from an inflated ego. I am currently thanking God for the sensibility of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for his words of caution concerning reacting to...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Congress
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Judges sue Social Security over 'quotas' on disability decisions
Administrative law judges who evaluate disability claims for the Social Security Administration want a federal court to ease a workload that they say makes errors more likely — the latest in a series of challenges confronting the Woodlawn-based...
Tags: Litigation, Elections, U.S. Senate, Laws, Social Security
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