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Part Of The Space Shuttle Enterprise May Have Been Ripped Off During...

Count Space Shuttle Enterprise as another one of Sandy's victims. The 60-foot-high pavilion protecting the space shuttle aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's flight deck collapsed during...

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The Spike In Myanmar's Opium Production Could Destabilize All Of Asia

Despite efforts to combat the cultivation opium in Southeast Asia, production of the cash crop has doubled in the last six years and the price has risen dramatically, according to a new report from...

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Mitt Romney Has Made It Clear That He Backs Indefinite Detention Too

President Barack Obama has been getting slammed for his act allowing the indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, remotely connected to terrorist groups. But would the Mitt Romney...

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US Delegation Warns Hillary Clinton The China-Japan Island Spat Could Turn...

Tension over the islands known as  in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese has spilled over in recent months, resulting in multiple tense diplomatic exchanges and even widespread anti-Japanese rioting in...

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Coast Guard Abandons Search For Missing Captain Of Sunken HMS Bounty

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard halted its search Thursday for the captain of a tall ship that sank off the North Carolina coast during Hurricane Sandy after more than three days of...

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Gary Johnson's Anti-Drone Anti-NDAA Platform May Take Out Obama In Colorado

Barack Obama is due to campaign in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday night to fire up this liberal bastion and try to snuff out a libertarian challenge which threatens to siphon crucial votes. The...

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Marco Rubio On Benghazi: 'There's Classified Information That People Should...

Blown away by Hurricane Sandy: News of the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. But the coverage is returning as Sandy's floodwaters recede and Republicans press the Obama Administration for more...

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The Air Force's Hurricane Hunter Squad Started With A Barroom Dare

As the East Coast is battered by Hurricane Sandy and the Atlantic City boardwalk washes into the Atlantic Ocean, it’s hard not to think about the pilots and aircrews who actually fly into these...

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How To Get Into Manhattan If You Have Fewer Than 3 People In Your Car

We were taking photos of a flooded out fire station in Hoboken when we heard an announcer on the radio declare, "The 3-person rule is being strictly enforced on any crossing into Manhattan." Luckily,...

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Help Is On The Way For The Battle-Induced Rage Affecting Too Many Marines

Marine Maj. Steve Taylor, who had unknowingly suffered a concussion in Afghanistan after a roadside explosion, was at a takeout pizza dinner with his family at Camp Lejeune, N.C. There was some...

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Navy SEALs Advised On This Video Game And It's A Giant Flop

Medal of Honor: Warfighter is EA's second attempt to carve out its own slice of Activision's mighty Call of Duty franchise. In this it is not alone. 2007's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has been one of...

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Obama Has Ordered The Military To Send 24 Million Gallons Of Fuel To...

The Obama administration accelerated its response to the fuel problem in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy Friday, and has authorized the Pentagon to deliver 24 million gallons of extra fuel to...

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There's A Reason Why All Of The Reports About Benghazi Are So Confusing

At this point it's clear that the U.S. had something to hide at Benghazi, and that's why reports coming out of the Libyan city have been so confusing.Two key details about the the Sept. 11 attack in...

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Iran President Ahmadinejad Just Got Shredded In Front Of His Own Parliament

Iran's parliament on Sunday summoned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a grilling over his handling of last month's currency crisis which saw the rial plunge 40 percent against the dollar, state media...

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Social Media Is Saving Soldiers' Lives In Ways You'd Never Expect

“TROOP IN TROUBLE” was the beginning of the status update posted last week by the military Facebook page Awesome Shit My Drill Sergeant Said. The humor-based page that originally started as a place for...

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The Types Of Punishments In Tribal Law Are Simply Inhuman

I came across an article in al-Jazeera that discusses a case of traditional justice where over a dozen girls were handed from one tribal group to its rival to help settle a blood feud. It sounded like...

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There's An Untold Story Of Heroism In The 'Mexican' Marine Corps, And Here's...

Through heavily accented Spanglish the first thing he ever said to me was, “I am your Corporal and I do not like the d*** sucking.” I would come to find later that he had a robot black heart tattooed...

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The Russians Are Waging A Counter-Insurgency Battle That No One Is Talking About

While everyone in the States was busy thinking about/ignoring the debates, a Russian Anti-Terrorism force launched an operation that resulted in 49 militants killed and 219 people taken into custody.As...

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National Guard: 'We Were Dead In The Water Until Victoria's Secret Showed Up'

Lingerie to the rescue!Noah Shachtman at Wired has a fantastic story about what happened to the New York Army National Guard's 69th Infantry Regiment during Hurricane Sandy on Monday night.They were...

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Bin Laden Is Dead And General Motors Is Alive, And That's Why Obama Will Win

Yesterday I had a look at one of the first articles I wrote about this year’s presidential election, a response to my good friend Tim Stanley, which ended “Bin Laden’s dead, General Motors is alive....

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