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Air National Guard members honored at Hometown Heroes Salute
davem@herald-mail.comWhen Williamsport resident Troy Brawner joined the Air National Guard in 1989, he said he never would have imagined how it all unfolded. That was before the United States’ war in Afghanistan. Starting in October 2011, Brawner was sent to...Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Gainesville, U.S. Air Force, Human Interest
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Taliban claims responsibility as insurgents attack Kabul airport
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents attacked the military side of Kabul’s international airport at dawn Monday, jarring residents of the Afghan capital awake to the sound of explosions and gunfire. The area houses a key NATO strategic headquarters,...
Tags: Pakistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Rebellions, Taliban, NATO
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Mail Call - June 10
“I was just reading the marriage licenses in the newspaper, and I’m curious to find out, when a woman and a woman get married, how do they decide which name to take? And the same thing with a man, when two men get married, how do they decide...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Taxation, Sports
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Obama foreign policy follies befuddle right and left alike
The young Barack Obama's early enthusiasm for anti-war progressivism is well chronicled in his autobiography. Friendships with the likes of anti-war activists/bombers Bill Ayers and wife Bernardine Dohrn, poet Frank Marshall Davis, and the notorious Rev....Tags: Islam, U.S. Department of State, Jeremiah Wright, U.S. Congress, Wars and Interventions
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Suicide bombing outside Afghan Supreme Court kills 17
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in front of the Supreme Court in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, several hundred yards from the U.S. Embassy, killing 17 people and wounding 38, police said. The Taliban claimed...
Tags: National Government, Pakistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Rebellions, Taliban
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Calipari signs Stanford fan's UK cowboy boots
sarah.cornett@centre.eduOn Monday, parents gathered their children together in the Boyle County High School gymnasium for one of the 2013 John Calipari basketball camps. As a part of the satellite tour this summer, the camp seeks to teach young, aspiring basketball players the...Tags: John Calipari, Basketball, Sports, Kentucky Wildcats
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Afghanistan Sikhs, already marginalized, are pushed to the brink
KABUL, Afghanistan — Outsiders may have trouble distinguishing between the turbans worn by Afghan Sikhs, with their tighter folds, varied colors and tucked-in edges, and those worn by Afghan Muslims, usually black or white with the end hanging...
Tags: National Government, Judaism, Pakistan, Islam, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Holding the national security course
President Barack Obama's latest changes in his top national security team seem more a shift to a stronger emphasis on human rights than a break with his long-range determination to keep the United States out of nation-building adventurism. His...Tags: U.S. Senate, Iraq, U.S. Department of State, National Security, Crime, Law and Justice
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Explosion heard near Red Cross office in Afghanistan's Jalalabad
ReutersJALALABAD, Afghanistan, May 29 (Reuters) - A large explosion was heard near the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said. Part of the ICRC building in...Tags: American Red Cross, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
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Veterans' Protest Sways East Hampton Council
The Hartford CourantFacing strong opposition from veterans, the town council on Tuesday sounded the retreat on a controversial proposal to place a "Welcome" sign on a patch of ground some former soldiers see as sacred. Officials were considering placing the new welcome sign...Tags: Human Interest
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Army staff sergeant to plead guilty in Afghanistan massacre
SEATTLE — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has agreed to plead guilty to the killing of 16 Afghan civilians who were shot to death in their homes outside a U.S. Army outpost in a violent rampage his lawyers have said was brought on by stress fueled with...Tags: Mental Health, Court Preliminary, Robert Bales, U.S. Army, Murder
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'Dirty Wars' makers go behind Obama's counterterrorism
Those who tuned in to President Obama's speech last month on counterterrorism and national security heard some pretty remarkable things: The commander in chief defending his decision to sanction the killing of a fellow citizen without due process, even...
Tags: BBC, National Security, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al Jazeera (tv network), Entertainment
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