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An airline service map shows how bad things are getting in war-torn South Sudan
The over 18-month-old civil war in South Sudan is being fought in remote areas of a vast country.There's no reliable death count, although the numbers of displaced have already reached the level of...
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2 Army veterans explain this ominous 2008 photo from Iraq
An ominous photo that an American soldier took during the Iraq War is shaping up to be one of the conflict's most iconic images for the members of one US Army squadron, according to two veterans...
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Turkey 'decided to light a match' and 'won't be able to control the...
Turkey is now in the fight against the Islamic State, and it's unclear what happens next.Despite the vast number of foreign fighters traveling between Turkey and Syria, the Turkish side of the border...
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Obama just significantly raised the stakes of the Iran deal
President Barack Obama on Wednesday raised the stakes of the Iranian nuclear deal, saying the multinational nuclear agreement Iran is "the most consequential foreign-policy debate" that the US has had...
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US defense contractors are increasing their sales to the rest of the world
While the US is spends far and away the most on defense annually, US contractors the government buys from are increasingly looking outside of the US for sales. Defense contractors such as Lockheed...
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11 incredible pictures from Russia's International Army Games
Russia is under US and EU sanctions over its aggressive policies in Ukraine, and budget pressures have forced the Kremlin to radically scale back its production of high-end weaponry.But from August 1...
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Police: Suspect dead after report of gunshots at Nashville movie theater
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect wielding a hatchet and a gun inside a Nashville-area movie theater died after exchanging gunshots with a SWAT team that stormed the theater, police said Wednesday.The...
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Obama's escalating heated rhetoric on Iran shows he might be worried about an...
Congress may end up voting against President Barack Obama's landmark nuclear deal with Iran by passing a resolution of disapproval, putting the legislative branch on record as opposing perhaps the...
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More than 80% of the thousands held at the Chicago police's 'black site' were...
The Guardian has uncovered arrest records revealing that 82% of the more than 3,500 Americans detained at a secret police facility in Chicago over the past decade were black.About 8.5% of those held at...
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Here's how the rest of the world feels about Putin
Vladimir Putin enjoys an incredibly high approval rating at home in Russia.For the month of July, his approval rating was up at 87%, following an all-time high of 89% in June, according to polling from...
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“‘Build it and they will come’ is not enough": Egypt's $8 billion Suez Canal...
Exactly one year after construction began on an expansion of the Suez canal, authoritarian-minded Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi is about to throw a party celebrating its completion, Bloomberg...
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The overhaul of America's largest jail system 'is a major, real thing'
The exposure of regular prisoner abuse at Los Angeles' jails has lead to a reform of the system, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.The New York Times reports that the settlement between the LA...
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70 years ago today: The moment the US deployed the most powerful weapon known...
Released from B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m. (Japanese time), the world entered the unprecedented atomic age with the deployment of the most powerful weapon known to...
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The US is going to have a huge gap in the Persian Gulf for two months
At a time of heightened tensions throughout the Middle East over the Iran nuclear deal and the spread of ISIS, the US will be forced to recall its aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf, Navy officials...
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Every year modern-day Vikings descend on Spain — here's what it looks like
In Northwestern Spain, the small village of Catoria along the Ulla river is home to 3,500 people, but on the first Sunday of every August, it is invaded by Vikings.The tradition has been alive in the...
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This was the US Navy's cutting-edge stealth ship
In the early 1980s, Cold War tensions were at their post-Cuban Missile Crisis height, and the US was looking for any strategic advantage it could get against its Soviet adversary.Although...
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A high-profile Republican's group just went nuclear on Rand Paul with an...
A group run by a high-profile Republican on Tuesday an intense advertisement taking aim at presidential candidate and US Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) over his comments about the threat Iran poses to the...
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Here's what the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima would do to...
Seventy years ago, the US Air Force's "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a 15-kiloton nuclear bomb, code-named Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.The blast, which was the first...
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US officials: Russian hackers knocked Pentagon email networks offline and...
A Russian cyberattack around July 25 against the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff's email has resulted in the mail system being offline for almost two weeks, US officials told NBC.The attack affected...
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One of the Senate's top Democrats will oppose the Iran nuclear deal
Democratic US Senator Chuck Schumer is opposing the nuclear deal with Iran. The Huffington Post reported his intention to oppose the deal on Thursday. Shortly after that report was published, Schumer...
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