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Sen. Warner to visit Hampto VA medical center Friday
U.S. Sen. Mark Warner will present replacement medals to Korean War Air Force veteran John Millan Friday at the Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center Friday. The event will be part of a two-day trip to the Peninsula and Hampton Roads. On Saturday...Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), John Warner, International Military Interventions, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Newport News Shipbuilding
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3 Navy fliers killed as Prowler jet crashes in Pacific Northwest
Three Navy fliers were killed when their jet crashed about 50 miles west of Spokane, Wash., on Monday, officials said. The fliers were on a training mission on an EA-6B Prowler based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, on Washington's Puget Sound. No...
Tags: Armed Forces, Disasters and Accidents, Rick Larsen, Electronics, Science and Technology
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How budget cuts could affect you
Government agencies are already taking steps to comply with automatic spending cuts that took effect March 1. Some examples: ___ AIRCRAFT CARRIER One of the Navy's premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pierside in...Tags: Credit and Debt, Students, Air Transportation Industry, Barack Obama, Tom Vilsack
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Rand Paul's stunt misses the point
If you took Sen. Rand Paul duck hunting, he'd probably shoot the decoy. That's the impression the first-term Kentucky Republican gave when he took the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday for a 13-hour rambling real-life imitation of Jimmy Stewart's...Tags: Ron Wyden, U.S. Senate, Ted Cruz, Eric Holder, Armed Forces
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Letters: The other side of the drone debate
Re "Drone debate opens a GOP divide," March 8 Here's a simple way to look at U.S. drone policy and its immorality, illegality and hypocrisy: Luis Posada Carriles — a Cuban-born Venezuelan who has been convicted of terrorist acts in Panama and...Tags: Venezuela, Cuba, Barack Obama, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Air Transportation Industry
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Fans riot after death sentences for 21 convicted rioters, acquittals for police
An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed the death sentences against 21 people for taking part in a deadly soccer riot but acquitted seven police officials for their alleged role in the violence. Suspected fans enraged by the verdict torched the soccer...Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Judges, Prisons, Justice System, Hosni Mubarak
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Blue Angels scheduled to fly, others not at NAF El Centro Air Show
Digital Media News EditorThough some appearances have been canceled, the Blue Angels are still set to soar next Saturday for the annual air show at Naval Air Facility El Centro. Unfortunately, a number of other demonstrations, including the VFA-122 Super Hornet, have been...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Key West, Air Transportation Delays
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Beechcraft will protest loss of Air Force contract
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsBeechcraft says it will protest a decision by the Air Force to give a contract to a Brazilian competitor. The Department of Defense awarded a $427 million light air support contract to Sierra Nevada Corp last week. Beechcraft says the decision puts 1,400...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force
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Senate approves Brennan as CIA chief
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, ending weeks of delay as lawmakers sought access to secret Obama administration documents about the targeted killing of militants overseas...
Tags: David Petraeus, U.S. Senate, Justice System, John O. Brennan, Al-Qaeda
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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Prisons, U.S. Senate, Political Systems, Golf, Prosecution
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U.N. approves tough new sanctions against N. Korea after Pyongyang vows to nuke U.S.
Associated PressThe U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, and a furious Pyongyang threatened a nuclear strike against the United States. The sanctions drafted by North Korea's...Tags: Exports, Weaponry, Susan Rice, Nuclear Policy, Missile Systems
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U.N. approves new sanctions against North Korea
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, a move that sparked a furious Pyongyang to threaten a nuclear strike against the United States. The...
Tags: Exports, Weaponry, Susan Rice, Missile Systems, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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