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Taliban attack international aid group in Afghanistan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen launched a coordinated attack on an international aid group’s guesthouse in an upscale Kabul neighborhood Friday, setting off a furious firefight that lasted several hours and renewing fears of the insurgents&...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Armed Conflicts, Taliban, Firearms
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Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no...
Tags: United States Naval Academy, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Annapolis, Human Interest, Assault
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The Confederate general From Pennsylvania
People who passed John Pemberton on the streets of Allentown must have thought him an impressive figure. This 60-year-old's lean, 5-foot-10-inch, ramrod-straight frame showed a positively military bearing. His finely tailored suits added to Pemberton's...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Big Black (music group), Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), Christianity, Human Interest
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Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?
The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Crime, Law and Justice, Religious Conflicts, Civil Rights, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Obama to address Naval Academy commencement
President Barack Obama will travel to Annapolis to speak at the Naval Academy commencement today, addressing the class at a time when the military faces complicated internal challenges the graduating midshipmen will soon inherit. It is the second time...Tags: United States Naval Academy, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Annapolis, White House, U.S. Department of Defense
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Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay members, but not leaders, ending century-long ban
The Boy Scouts of America approved a historic policy shift Thursday, allowing gay youths as members for the first time in the organization's 100-year history. But the highly anticipated vote by 1,400 members of the Scouts' executive committee stopped...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Christianity, Youth Organizations, Gays and Lesbians
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La Caņada Fiesta Days schedule
Hosts La Caņada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce and Community Assn. stick with tradition for Fiesta Days' main lineup each year. EVENTS: Casino Night at the Community Center — Friday, May 24, 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The event kicks off Fiesta...
Tags: Human Interest, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, French Toast, YMCA, How to Train Your Dragon (movie)
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Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war
WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...Tags: Jihad, Al-Qaeda, Religious Conflicts, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, FBI
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NY's Sen. Gillibrand says repeated sexual assaults in military allow culture to continue
Associated PressALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Charges that an Army sergeant secretly photographed and videotaped women at West Point are part of a military-wide pattern of sexual misconduct, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Thursday. The military has been rocked by a...Tags: Trials, Chuck Hagel, Assault, Today (tv program), Kirsten Gillibrand
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This Memorial Day, let us put the holiday in perspective by remembering sacrifice
This coming Monday, most offices and almost all banks and governmental agencies will be closed to observe Memorial Day. Sales, cookouts and gatherings are being planned for this weekend. Memorial Day is, after all, considered to be the start of the...Tags: Human Interest, Christianity, Memorial Day, Anglicanism, Religion and Belief
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Boy Scouts set to vote on lifting gay youth ban
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Thursday’s vote on whether to lift the ban on gay youths in the Boy Scouts of America could symbolize a cultural shift. Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday,...
Tags: Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Youth Organizations, Religious Events, Social Issues
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Vice President Addresses Coast Guard Graduates
The Hartford CourantNEW LONDON -- Vice President Joe Biden told graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremony Wednesday morning that they will face new responsibilities in a changing and dangerous world. "This is not your father's Coast Guard," Biden...Tags: Government, New London (New London, Connecticut), Janet Napolitano, U.S. Coast Guard, Environmental Issues
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