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The US is sending antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine. Here's what it means

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines expands the use of a weapon that the international community has long condemned because of its danger to ...

DATE: Nov 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Suicides in the US military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend

WASHINGTON (AP) — Suicides in the U.S. military increased in 2023, continuing a long-term trend that the Pentagon has struggled to abate, according to a Defense Department report released on...

DATE: Nov 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

The Army's answer to a lack of recruits is a prep course to boost low scores. It's working

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) — Index cards taped to a large board on the wall at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, reveal the sometimes blunt and gritty reasons that new recruits took a chance at a l...

DATE: Nov 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

US will appeal judge's ruling that 9/11 defendants can plead guilty and avoid the death penalty

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department will appeal a military judge's ruling that plea agreements struck by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, an...

DATE: Nov 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

About 24 states say they'll send National Guard troops to DC for vote certification and inauguration

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than two dozen states have indicated they would be willing to send National Guard troops to Washington if requested in the weeks following the presidential election an...

DATE: Nov 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press