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Senate ends Hagel filibuster, nomination moves closer to vote
WASHINGTON – Chuck Hagel moved a step closer to confirmation as Defense secretary after the Senate voted Tuesday afternoon 71-27 to end a GOP-led filibuster of his controversial nomination. A final vote is expected to take place at 1:30 p.m. PST....
Tags: John Brennan, John McCain, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, Lindsey O. Graham
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Why Iran says no
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been doubling down on his hard-line message that all but rules out the possibility of direct talks with the United States. In the lead-up to the latest round of the so-called six-party talks on Iran's...
Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's Nuclear Program, Islam, Nuclear Policy
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'Argo's' Oscar gets a thumbs-down in Iran
TEHRAN -- Since the news from Hollywood flashed early Monday in Iran, text messages have been passing the word: A film widely denounced here as a stereotyped, anti-Iranian caricature won the coveted Oscar for best picture. "I am secular, atheist and not...
Tags: Ben Affleck, Tehran (Iran), Iraq, Argo (movie), Entertainment Events
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Admitting wrong about Iraq
Kudos to Scott Stantis for his Op-Ed page cartoon on March 25. As a Vietnam veteran who opposed the Iraq War from the beginning, I applaud his willingness to admit he was wrong. Too bad others, like Dick Cheney, who led us into this debacle, can’t...Tags: Iraq, Dick Cheney
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Elizabeth Paul: Don't sell Obama short on what he has accomplished
I was troubled by misinformation in Art Callaham’s column (Feb. 17) promoting the blogs of Rabbi Pruzansky. It is simply untrue to state that President Obama didn’t defend his first-term record or put forward a second-term agenda. He...Tags: Small Businesses, Housing Industry, Insurance, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Petraeus to speak at USC event, expected to apologize for affair
This post has been corrected; see note at bottom for details.Former CIA Director David Patraeus will speak Tuesday night at USC's annual dinner for veterans and ROTC students, his first public speech since resigning as head of the intelligence agency because of an extramarital affair. According to an advance copy...Tags: Iraq, Central Intelligence Agency, International Military Interventions
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The war in Iraq: Embedded with the U.S. Military
FrameworkAfter returning from assignment in Afghanistan in 2003, Times photojournalist Rick Loomis asked to be sent out in the first wave of journalists to cover the Invasion of Iraq. He spent several weeks traveling in the back of a canvas topped Humvee with U.S.... -
The story behind the photo: A U.S. Marine salutes the flag in Iraq
FrameworkAs U.S. and allied forces advanced toward Baghdad 10 years ago, a military public affairs sergeant snapped a photograph of a Marine saluting the flag at sunset at a desert airfield in southern Iraq. Taken on April 3, 2003, it was one of many images... -
Fort Meade VA Outpatient clinic advances effort to serve women veterans
When retired Master Sgt. Sheryl A. Webb left the U.S. Army in 1997, she was scarcely aware of services that U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals offered specifically for women. That was well before women became the fastest growing demographic group...
Tags: Fort Meade (military base), Infertility, U.S. Army, Medical Procedures and Tests, Menopause
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Mothers aid military personnel in the names of their fallen sons
They didn't know each other before the war. But loss united them, and friendship helps sustain them. "Every one of us wants our child to be remembered," said Sue Pollard, who, like her friend Debi Win'E, lost a son in Iraq. "Our main thing is to do...
Tags: Iraq, Armed Conflicts, George W. Bush, Belief and Faith, Religion and Belief
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Letters: WMD intelligence -- errors or lies?
Re "The what if's of Iraq," Opinion, March 19 Max Boot claims that the justification of ending Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program for going to war with Saddam Hussein was an error, not a lie. He then assigns much of the blame for the ongoing...
Tags: Iraq, United Nations, Wars and Interventions, White House, U.S. Senate
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Baghdad in photos, then and now
FrameworkTo mark the 10-year anniversary of the war in Iraq, Associated Press photographer Maya Alleruzzo returned to Baghdad with printed photographs that she and colleagues had taken. Alleruzzo wrote this about the project: We went through the archive to look...
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Feb 25, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Mar 26, 2013
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Mar 21, 2013
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Mar 24, 2013
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Mar 23, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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