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The Entire Fleet Of F-35s Has Been Grounded

An engine blade crack is the newest culprit in the ongoing F-35 saga.Reutersreports that the crack, found on a test aircraft in California, prompted officials to ground the entire fleet of 51 jets as a...

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Reports That Mexican Drug Kingpin Died In Shootout Almost Certainly False

Twitter has been roiling after a Guatemala official told reporters Thursday that one of two victims of a shootout looked like the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzman.The rumor and...

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North Korea To Show Off Captured US Navy Ship In Its New War Museum

North Korea is planning to put the captured US Navy ship USS Pueblo in a new war museum being constructed in Pyongyang, the official news agency KNCA reports.Construction on the museum, titled the...

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Now 6 Tanks Are Leaking Radioactive Waste At America's Most Contaminated Site

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says six underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear reservation are leaking, the Associated Press reports.The problem, which Inslee called "disturbing," has been brewing for a...

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There's An Even Worse Scandal Hidden In Obama's Secret Drone Memo

The Obama administration's classified legal memos justifying targeted killings contain secret protocols with foreign governments and “case-specific” details of strikes, two sources aware of their...

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How A Photon Could Protect America From The World's Most Sophisticated Bad Guys

Earlier today we posted how the Chinese military's exploit of America's grid software could conceivably provide them with a switch to turn out our lights, for months.The resulting catastrophe can be...

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Microsoft: We Were Hacked, Too! (MSFT)

Apple, Facebook, and Twitter recently reported security breaches, apparently linked to a developer website that infected programmers' computers after they visited it.Now Microsoft says it was hacked,...

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A Reader Just Bought This 9mm Uzi, And All He Needed Was Cash And A Driver's...

Less than a week ago, one reader sent us photos of the assault weapons he had purchased at a gun show without a background check. He then taunted the government to "come take his guns." Today another...

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North Korea Warns US Commander In South Korea Of 'Miserable Destruction'

It's rare that our friends from North Korea actually pick up the phone and give the ol' U.S. a call. But according to reports in their local media that's exactly what they did. Oh, and did we mention...

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The Country Formerly Known As Syria

“MY COUNTRY is being destroyed,” sobs Ahmad, a student from the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor who joined the protests when they began in March 2011. “The regime is killing us, many of the opposition...

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CIA Agents Sleep Around All The Time, Says Ex-Spook

Your boss is caught in the act of "going at it" with a junior colleague, and it's perfectly acceptable.That's the espionage division of the CIA, according to former clandestine operations officer Reuel...

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There Are Four Disturbing Unanswered Questions About The Mumbai Terror Attack

The 35-year prison sentence imposed on David Coleman Headley, a terrorist scout and Pakistani spy convicted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has closed the U.S. chapter of a case with explosive...

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US And UK Draw Up Plans To Seize Or Destroy Syria’s Chemical Weapons

They fear that nerve agents and chemical weapons held by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime could fall into terrorists’ hands if the government collapses entirely.Senior officers have...

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Growing Number Of Gunmakers Threaten To Boycott States That Pass Gun Laws

A growing number of firearm firms in the US are vowing to reverse-boycott local and state governments that enact any new infringements on the Second Amendment.Vowing to close what they're calling "the...

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How To Save Syria From Al Qaeda

Tactically, President Obama is operating true to form in Syria; he’s wisely avoiding ever creeping military measures on behalf of rebels, many of whom might well turn out to be even worse than the...

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Building All These Underground Forts Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

Workers finished building 18 of these underground forts around Bucharest in the early 1900s, just in time for technology to render them totally obsolete.Romania was pumped about its newly gained...

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The Crew Of The USS Barry Is Already Getting Battered By Defense Cuts

When we visited the USS Barry, the ship and its crew were feverishly preparing for a huge inspection, and an upcoming overseas deployment.Short-staffed and overworked, the crew pulled the 20-year-old...

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The White House Is Pressuring Republicans On The Sequester By Warning Of...

Less than a week before across-the-board cuts start to kick in as a result of the sequester, the White House warned on Sunday of the state-by-state effect of the cuts. The White House released reports...

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TOP DEMOCRATIC SENATOR: 'I Don't Think The Public Realizes How Stupid These...

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, said Congress must "get something done" to avert the looming, across-the-board cuts of the sequester set to start kicking in later...

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Talking About Banning Guns Is Actually Great For The Gun Industry

The ongoing fight over gun control has actually been great for the firearms industry. While sales dipped in the days following December's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., many gun manufacturers such...

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