Fireworks are in place and set to explode Wednesday on Capitol Hill over whether the U.S. military could have done more to save the four trapped U.S. diplomats who died in Benghazi last September 11.
It’s all going to boil …
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Let’s suppose you’re a typical American family, with kids that have largely grown up and flown the coop, leaving you and your spouse empty-nesters. Well, maybe not complete empty-nesters. You had a rather large brood, and …
Evidence Mounts in Ricin Investigation Against Mississippi Taekwondo Instructor
An 8-page document divulges the evidence the FBI collected before charging James Everett Dutchske in the ricin letter Investigation.
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Watch: Boston Bombing Suspects’ Family Members Speak Out
As the search continued for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspects’ family members spoke to the press about him and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police late Thursday night.
James Earl Ray: Newfound Video Shows Arrest of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Killer
Tennessee officials wanted to make sure they got the arrest of the fugitive gunman on tape. Here’s how the tape was made — and how it was found after disappearing for decades.
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Brinksmanship Blockade: North Korea Bars South Koreans from Kaesong
The other shoe dropped in North Korea Wednesday, as the government of Kim Jong Un refused to let nearly 500 South Korean workers cross the DMZ to work in the Kaesong industrial park.
The joint operation between North and South …
The Art of the Possible: Moving Mountains in Afghanistan
Near the end of the summer in 1992, Lt. Gen. Gus Pagonis, the logistical wizard behind the overwhelming coalition victory in the first Gulf War, published a book called Moving Mountains. Part memoir, part leadership guide, the book described the gargantuan task of basically moving the population of Alaska, along with their stuff, halfway …
WATCH: News Crew Gets Dangerously Close to Georgia Tornado
A crew from local station WSB-2 captured the tornado that swept through Adairsville, Ga. on Wednesday.
Training for a Shootout: How High-Tech Simulations Are Enhancing Emergency Response
Technology is helping law enforcement prepare, and adapt, for the next tragedy
Stan McChrystal: Trading Shadows for Showtime
For nearly six years during the post-9/11 war on terror — including the height of the Iraq war — Stanley McChrystal was the furthest thing from a household name.
As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (known in the military then as Task Force 714), McChrystal led a team of commandos, intelligence analysts and programmers. …
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This Drone Notion Is Starting to Get Serious
This looks, and sounds, like the first U.S. military drone to, well, look and sound like a warplane.
It was only two days ago that Battleland posted a photo of the Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft System demonstrator “landing” gently on the flight deck of the USS Harry S Truman – with help from a crane.
Meanwhile, back …
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Elroy Jetson Is Building Missiles!
Well, actually it’s Raytheon. But imagine if little Elroy – the youngest Jetson in that futuristic cartoon family from the 1960s, The Jetsons — had spent his career in the defense industry. He might well be starting work Monday at Raytheon’s new $75 million missile factory opening in Huntsville (“The Rocket City”), Ala. – as an …
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Are Female Troops More Likely to Get PTSD?
Women may be at greater risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder than men because of what researchers call their “heightened fear response.”
California scientists examined individuals with PTSD symptoms and found that the women in the study developed a stronger fear response than the men during so-called “conditioning …