Defense
Senator: Assaults let military culture continue
A senator says repeated sexual assaults in the military allow a culture to continue. Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand (KEHR'-sten JIHL'-uh-brand) of New York addressed the latest case at West Point. An Army sergeant is charged with secretly taking pictures and video of at least a dozen women at West Point. Gillibrand ...
Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face — even from fellow citizens. On the eve of the president's speech at the National Defense ...
UK official: Suspects part of previous probes
A British government official says both suspects in the brutal killing of a solider were part of previous security services investigations for possible terror links. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the investigation, said he could not provide other details ...
SPOTLIGHT: Graduating veteran made mark
Mat Jasieniecki readily admits that after he graduated from high school, he partied a bit too much, and after a while his grandparents told him to shape up. Jasieniecki, who was born in Poland and raised primarily by his grandparents in the south suburbs of Chicago, was always a curious ...
Bollinger delivers 6th cutter to Coast Guard
Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. has delivered the sixth fast response cutter to the U.S. Coast Guard. Executive vice president of new construction Chris Bollinger says the 154-foot Paul Clark was delivered to the 7th Coast Guard District in Key West, Fla. It will be stationed at Miami, where the Coast Guard ...
Decade-long cancer study at Pratt & Whitney ends
A massive, 11-year study of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney is coming to an end with what could be definitive information about fatal occupational illnesses at Connecticut plants. The subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. is set to unveil on Thursday the third and final phase of ...
Couple donates collection to Silver City library
SILVER CITY, N.M. - A Deming couple has donated a collection of research materials on 1st Lt. Charles Gatewood of the 6th U.S. Calvary, to the Silver City Public Library. The couple, Robert and Wilma Knox, embarked on the research about 10 years ago, after they had retired to Deming ...
AP Weekly News Calendar
?Thursday, May 23: JERUSALEM — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. JERUSALEM — British Foreign Secretary William Hague meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. RAMALLAH, West Bank — British ...
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more ...
Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears
Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took ...
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