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Cell Phone Usage Is Expanding In North Korea

There are nearly two million North Koreans now hooked into the country's only wireless 3G network, up from one million in 2012, according to North Korea Tech. The service, provided by Koryolink, is a...

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'The Nightstalkers' Are The Most Badass Helicopter Pilots In The World

When the Navy SEALs or Army Special Forces need a ride, they call the unit with the most elite helicopter pilots in the world — the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment."The Nightstalkers" as...

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This Is What Happens To Someone Hit By The Nerve Toxin Allegedly Used By Assad

Accusations that Syrian President Assad recently dumped deadly sarin gas on his own people are now coming from the U.S., Israel, the UK, and France.Sarin is a nerve toxin so deadly that just one drop...

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OBAMA: The Use Of Chemical Weapons In Syria Will 'Change My Calculus'

President Barack Obama said Friday that reports of Syria's reported use of chemical weapons will be a "game changer" that will affect his administration's response to the country's two-year civil war....

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Obama Pushes Back The Goal Posts On Syrian Chemical Weapons

Barack Obama's latest statement with regard to Syrian chemical weapon use indicates that Assad would have to gas more people to get a reaction out of the U.S.Here's an excerpt from Reuters:"Horrific as...

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How To Spell Words Like An Air Traffic Controller

If you've ever listened in on air traffic control tower chatter or seen pretty much any movie about the military, you've heard people using the NATO phonetic alphabet.It's a method that substitutes a...

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The U.S. Is Still Spending Billions In Afghanistan, But No One Seems To Care

Hard-fought gains in Afghanistan over the last decade are at risk of being squandered – unless immediate action is taken to determine the fate of tens of billions of dollars in questionable...

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North Korea To Put American Citizen On Trial

North Korea has announced the trial of an American citizen who was mysteriously arrested six months ago while leading a tour group into the country.The announcement focused attention back on Pyongyang...

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8 Things That Anonymous, The Hacker 'Terrorist' Group, Has Done For Good

It's easy to think of the hacking group Anonymous as a group of punk troublemakers, raising hell online.Some have even debated whether their extra-legal protests should be labeled terrorist acts.But...

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Army Chief Of Staff Blows Up At A California Congressman

What would have been a boring meeting on Capitol Hill instead turned into a battle between the Army's top general and a California congressman Thursday.Testifying before the House Armed Services...

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How North Koreans Celebrate The Lives Of Their Leaders

As the current North Korean crisis unfolds, I am reminded of a feeling I got when I visited the DPRK during the “100th birthday” celebration of Kim Il Sung.It is a feeling of being stuck in an...

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Russia Had Wiretap On Boston Bombing Suspect In 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say Russian authorities secretly recorded a conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother.Officials say a...

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Man Who Carried Famous Flag From Pearl Harbor To Iwo Jima Dies At 90

Like many World War II veterans, after he returned home, Alan Wood didn't talk much about his role at Iwo Jima.It wasn't until years later, Wood began to share that it was he who provided the American...

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In The Apple-Samsung Fight, The ‘Arms Dealers’ Win

Growing competition in the smartphone market has taken the shine off Apple's stock. But the stocks of the "arms dealers"—those companies providing the communications chips to the handset industry—have...

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The Heart Of Boston Makes A Mighty Rebound From Terrorist Attack

There is no right way to react to a terrorist attack.Oklahoma City rebuilt after Timothy McVeigh's 1995 truck bomb attack on the federal government. Atlanta moved on following anti-abortion activist...

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GOP Congressmen Spent Sunday Morning Urging Obama To Take Action In Syria

Across a variety of Sunday shows this morning, Republican lawmakers urged President Barack Obama to take further action in Syria, three days after the U.S. revealed intelligence that suggests President...

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Large Air Exercises Kick Off In Europe Even As Fleets Sit Grounded

With several European air forces forced to ground squadrons, reduce flying activity (with significant impact on their preparedness to react to the surge of Russian air force bombers and spyplanes...

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102 Hours In Pursuit Of The Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects

For five indelible days, the unthinkable became routine in Boston. And no one felt that more than the police and agents mounting the largest manhunt in regional history and parsing its most complex...

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Iraqi Prime Minister Is Looking More And More Like A Dictator

There used to be a joke Iraqis told about television: There are only four channels, and Saddam is on every one of them.Now Saddam's long dead, it's a decade later, and Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki...

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The US Doesn't Have Any Good Military Options In Syria

There is evidence that troops loyal to Syrian Bashar al-Assad have used chemical weapons, and U.S. lawmakers are urging President Obama to respond.It's not that simple.The military options range from...

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