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FBI: Miss. Man Arrested, Accused in Ricin Letters
The Associated PressThe FBI has identified a Mississippi man suspected of mailing letters containing poisonous ricin as 45-year-old Paul Kevin Curtis. FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen said Curtis was arrested Wednesday afternoon at his apartment in Corinth,...Tags: U.S. Senate, Jeff Flake, Medical Procedures and Tests, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes
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Murkowski Met with Chuck Hagel, Nominee for Defense Secretary
Channel 2 NewsSen. Lisa Murkowski says she had a productive meeting with President Obama's nominee for Defense Secretary. Murkowski met with former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel on Wednesday. Murkowski's spokesman says Murkowski is expected to make up her mind about Hagel'...Tags: Barack Obama
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Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' now in charge
Paula Coughlin was grocery shopping in Jacksonville, Fla., when I caught up with her on the phone this week. If anyone has an interesting perspective on the U.S. military’s absurd inability to deal with sexual assault, it’s Coughlin. She is...
Tags: Jackie Speier, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), U.S. Military, Assault, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Army general who served in Afghanistan is Pentagon pick to command US troops in South Korea
AP National Security WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the promotion of Lt. Gen....Tags: International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, South Korea, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Obama responds to criticism with 'fix it' strategy
WASHINGTON — At a news conference in a rainy Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama and the Turkish prime minister had weighty matters to discuss — the bloody civil war in Syria, a disastrous Syrian refugee crisis and Turkey's strained...Tags: Media Industry, Al Gore, Assault, Freedom of the Press, Denis R. McDonough
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Charges against Army sergeant said to involve sex for money, sexual assault
WASHINGTON (AP) - More details are emerging about the allegations against an Army sergeant first class at Fort Hood in Texas. It's the second time this month that a member of the armed forces who'd been assigned to help prevent sexual assaults in the...
Tags: Fort Hood (military base), Assault, Abusive Behavior, Washington, DC, Sex Crimes
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Defense to furlough most of its 800,000 civilians
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department will furlough most of its 800,000 civilian employees for 11 days, a decision that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called “difficult” but necessary to meet mandatory federal spending cuts this year...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace, Unemployment, U.S. Department of Defense
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Commissaries feel hiring freeze, fear budget squeeze
Base commissaries face turbulent times as staff vacancies swell under a federal hiring freeze, employee furloughs remain a worry and the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) digests budget guidance for fiscal 2015 that will force new efficiencies on stores...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Career and Workplace, Budgets and Budgeting
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Pentagon reports sharp rise in military sexual assaults
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon estimated that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted in unreported incidents last year — 35% more than in 2010 — a severe trend that senior officials warned could threaten recruiting and...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Courts-Martial, Assault, Kirsten Gillibrand, Crime, Law and Justice
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South Korean president thanks Korean War veterans
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comThe president of South Korea thanked a group of local Korean War veterans for helping set the cornerstone of a 60-year partnership between her country and the United States during a dinner Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Les Bishop, commander of Antietam...Tags: South Korea, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Veterans Affairs
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Bill Nelson: shortened news cycle, the Internet and partisan cable "news" makes Washington dysfunctional
Sun SentinelU.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is beginning his third term in the U.S. Senate. Washington, D.C., is a far different place than it was when he was a freshman member of the U.S. House back in 1979. Speaking Friday to the Realtor Association of Greater...Tags: U.S. Senate, Fort Lauderdale, Washington, DC, NASA, Ted Cruz
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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: U.S. Senate, U.S. Military, Courts-Martial, U.S. Air Force, Assault
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