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No Clear Security Fixes For Fort Hood Violence

The sad truth is that there is probably no practical way of preventing members of the armed forces or civilian employees from carrying guns onto big installations like Fort Hood.

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DALLAS (AP) — After three mass shootings at military bases in the U.S. over the last five years, security experts say the sad truth is that there is probably no practical way of preventing members of the armed forces or civilian employees from carrying guns onto big installations like Fort Hood. The kind of searches that would have prevented

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Investigator’s Positive Nuke Force Review Contradicts Previous Reports

The overall judgment conveyed in the April 2013 report by a Pentagon advisory group appears to contradict the picture that has emerged since then of a nuclear missile corps suffering from breakdowns in discipline, morale, training and leadership.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired general chosen to explore flaws in U.S. nuclear forces signed off one year ago on a study describing the nuclear Air Force as "thoroughly professional, disciplined" and performing effectively — an assessment service leaders interpreted as an encouraging thumbs-up. The overall judgment conveyed in the April 2013 report

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Obama: US To Provide Loan Guarantees For Tunisia

The assistance will be in the form of a U.S. loan guarantee that will make it easier for Tunisia to borrow money, and is the second loan guarantee it has provided.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is providing $500 million in new assistance to Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring movement, to help the North African nation revive its faltering economy as it continues its march toward democracy and financial and political stability after a period of unrest. President Barack Obama announced the aid

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US Secret ‘Cuban Twitter’ Project Has Hearings In Congress

The program aimed first to build a Cuban audience, mostly young people. Then the plan was to push them toward dissent.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a "Cuban Twitter" communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea was "dumb, dumb, dumb." The congressional hearing could resolve key questions around the

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Many Returning Military Vets Bound For College

Andrew Kispert, a 27-year-old Marine veteran who is now attending The Citadel, poses on the campus of the military college in Charleston, S.C., on Friday, April 4, 2014. Over the next few years thousands of veterans are expected to attend college as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down and the military downsizes. (AP […]

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — After five years in the Marines, including a tour in Afghanistan in which he saw buddies die in combat, Andrew Kispert found going back to college as a new veteran one of his biggest challenges yet. For starters, there was the strangeness of resuming civilian life. "The hardest part is the culture shock," said Kispert, a

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Labor Protest Sparks Clashes In Brussels

The protest in Brussels, in which thousands took part peacefully, was called by the European Trade Union Confederation to oppose austerity measures implemented across the 28-country European Union.

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BRUSSELS — Belgian police used water cannon and pepper spray on protesters who had showered them with oranges and cobblestones during a demonstration Friday by labor unions demanding a better deal for Europe's working men and women. The protest in Brussels, in which thousands took part peacefully, was called by the European Trade Union

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Crimea Side-Effect: Addicts Deprived Of Methadone

Across the Black Sea peninsula, some 800 heroin addicts and other needle-drug users take part in methadone programs — seen as an important part of efforts to curb HIV infections by taking the patients away from hypodermic needles that can spread the AIDS-causing virus.

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SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Every morning, Sergei Kislov takes the bus to the rundown outskirts of this port city for the methadone doses that keep him off heroin without suffering withdrawal. Now that Russia has taken over Crimea, the trips are about to end. "For a month and a half I won't be able to sit or sleep or eat," Kislov said. "It's a

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