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FILE PHOTO: Turkish and U.S. troops meet on the Turkish-Syrian border for a joint U.S.-Turkey patrol in northern Syria, as it…
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US Military Crosses Into Iraq From Syria
US troops have crossed into Iraq from Syria, Reuters reported Monday
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By VOA News
Mon, 10/21/2019 - 05:08
In this Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018 photo, students enter a polling place to cast their ballots during a Vote for Our Lives event…
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Public, Election Officials May Be Kept in the Dark on Hacks
Federal officials believe Russian agents in 2016 searched for vulnerabilities within election systems in all 50 states
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By Associated Press
Mon, 10/21/2019 - 04:26
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, center, is greeted by U.S. military personnel upon arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday,…
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US Defense Chief in Afghanistan for Firsthand Look at War
Mark Esper is seeking a firsthand assessment of the US military's future role in America's longest war as he makes his initial visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief
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By Associated Press
Mon, 10/21/2019 - 00:14
FILE - Flowers and other items have been left as memorials outside the Tree of Life synagogue following last Saturday's shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nov. 3, 2018.
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Report: Synagogue Massacre led to String of Attack Plots
The Anti-Defamation League also counted at least 50 incidents in which white supremacists are accused of targeting Jewish institutions’ property since a gunman killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018
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By Associated Press
Sun, 10/20/2019 - 20:22
FILE - A sign is displayed at the Cardinal Health, Inc. corporate office in Dublin, Ohio, Oct. 16, 2019. Negotiations aimed at reaching a major settlement in the nation's opioid litigation reached an impasse Friday, Oct. 18.
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Committee Pitches Concept to Settle all Opioid Lawsuits
The committee of unsecured creditors said in a letter sent Sunday to the parties and obtained by The Associated Press that the country 'is in the grips of a crisis that must be addressed, and that doing so may require creative approaches'
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By Associated Press
Sun, 10/20/2019 - 19:23
FILE - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, laughs as her brother Thomas D' Alesandro III, right, makes a joke as he introduces her husband Paul, during a street renaming ceremony in her behalf, in Baltimore, Jan. 5, 2007.
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Former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Nancy Pelosi's Brother, Dies at 90
Speaker of the House calls D'Alesandro 'the finest public servant I have ever known'
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By VOA News
Sun, 10/20/2019 - 18:03
U.S. Bradley fighting vehicles that will be deployed in Latvia for NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve wait to be unloaded in Garkalne, Latvia Feb. 8, 2017.
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3 US Soldiers Killed in Training Accident
The soldiers, who were in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, were from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team
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By Agence France-Presse
Sun, 10/20/2019 - 13:30