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'Fiscal cliff' 101: 5 basic questions answered
President Obama and congressional leaders are working to stop the US from going over the “fiscal cliff,” a combination of higher taxes and lower spending set to take effect Jan. 1. Here are five steps to understanding what's going on.
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Iran fires at US drone: the top 3 pressing questions
Iranian military forces fired at a US Predator drone for the first time ever earlier this month, the Pentagon acknowledged this week. It’s a revelation that has raised a host of questions for the US military. Here are the top three.
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Cuban Missile Crisis: the 3 most surprising things you didn't know
Fifty years ago, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union within a hair’s breadth of nuclear war. Here are three things that many Americans don’t know about what historians routinely call “the most dangerous moment in human history.”
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Five tough truths about US-China relations
The more American and Chinese officials proclaim their innocent intentions toward each other, the deeper the level of mistrust they generate. Official candor on five key truths about US-China relations will likely contribute to a more mature bilateral relationship and could help halt a potential slide to conflict.
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What is Russia thinking on Syria? A brief guide
As the crisis in Syria collapses into what looks like full-blown civil war, Russia's response stems from a complicated mix of principle, self-interest, mistrust of Western motives, and differing perceptions of the situation.
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SEAL dies Fort Knox: SEAL team member killed, others injured in accident
SEAL dies Fort Knox: A US Navy SEAL was killed and other team members injured in a one-vehicle accident at the US Army post in Kentucky.
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Change Agent US Navy ship to sail the Pacific on a humanitarian mission
The US Navy has been sending its vessels on humanitarian missions since 2006, when it sent the hospital ship USNS Mercy to the Philippines, Indonesia, and other Asian countries.
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$900,000 per inmate: World's most expensive prison (+video)
$900,000 per inmate makes Guantanamo Bay the world's most expensive prison. That's 13 times the cost of a super max inmate. Is $900,000 per inmate worth it to US taxpayers?
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Focus Was Shane Todd murdered over high-tech secrets?
Shane Todd, a US citizen working in Singapore, believed he had access to restricted tech. His death in 2012 was by suicide, say local authorities. But his family, suspecting murder, wants the FBI to take part in the investigation.
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'Sequester blues' for grounded Blue Angels
Navy's Blue Angels are grounded by federal budget cuts. For first time in six decades, Blue Angels won't appear at air shows, including San Francisco's Fleet Week in the fall.
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Budget cuts will ground fighter jets, Pentagon announces
A third of the U.S. Air Force's active-duty force of combat planes — including fighters and bombers — will be grounded due to federal budget cuts, a top general said Tuesday.
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2 Navy divers drowned at Maryland test pond
Three divers died earlier this year at the Army installation about 20 miles northeast of Baltimore, spokesman Bruce Goldfarb said.
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Meet Cyro, the robotic jellyfish that will haunt your dreams
Engineers at Virginia Tech are working on a gigantic, synthetic robo-jellyfish, which could eventually have military applications.
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'Killer dolphins' escape? Not so fast.
'Killer dolphins' escape: A story of highly-trained killer dolphins escaping from a Ukrainian military facility has turned out to be a hoax. But there is such a thing as a military dolphin.
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Military plane crashes in Washington state, Navy reports
The Navy informed Congress that the wingman of the crashed plane reported that no parachutes were deployed.
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Claude King, one of Louisiana's greatest songwriters, dies (+video)
Claude King dies but his music lives on. Claude King was one of the original members of the Louisiana Hayride, where Elvis Presley got his start. Claude King's big hit was 'Wolverton Mountain.'
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Backchannels Hamid Karzai is mad as heck and he isn't going to take it anymore
Afghan President Hamid Karzai would like to make it very clear that he doesn't like the US, his principal protector and patron.
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Domenici acknowledges secret son
Former Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, made public a long held secret on Wednesday. He fathered a child outside of marriage in the 1970s. The former politician, now 80, was the longest serving senator in the state's history and known as a family man.
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On thin ice: As Arctic Ocean warms, a scramble to understand its weather
Increasing summer ice melt in the Arctic Ocean could shift global weather patterns and make polar waters more navigable. But scientists say forecasting Arctic ice and weather remains a massive challenge.
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Manhunt for former LAPD officer turns to snowy San Bernardino mountains
On Saturday, the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, took police in the snowy California mountains. Dorner is accused of shooting and killing three people, wounding two police officers, and is thought to be targeting up to 40 others.
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Former LAPD officer suspect in two murders
Police in Los Angeles are looking for a former officer who is believed to have shot and killed two people on Sunday. The suspect, Christopher Dorner, was dismissed from his job at the LAPD in 2009. The police are seeking the public's assistance in finding him.
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Video games and shooting: Is the NRA right?
The NRA says the problem with mass shootings like the recent one at the Sandy Hook grade school in Connecticut is not too many unregulated guns but violent video games. But most academic and government research does not support the gun lobby's charge.
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Opinion: Return on American humanitarian aid: They like us
From Indonesia – the world's largest Muslim nation – to Pakistan, recipients of American humanitarian aid improve their opinions of the United States, especially when that aid is targeted at individuals, and not governments.
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Decoder Wire Pearl Harbor resurrection: the warships that rose to fight again (+video)
The attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago left a tangled mess of burning and shattered warships. But in 'one of history's greatest salvage jobs,' many of the sunken ships rose to fight the Axis.
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Former sailor arrested after allegedly attempting to pass secrets to Russia
If convicted, Robert Patrick Hoffman II, who retired from the US Navy last year, faces up to life in prison. According to the indictment, the FBI was conducting an undercover operation.
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Iran lawmaker affirms Tehran has US drone – from the CIA, perhaps?
The US Navy has denied it's missing any ScanEagle drones. But Iran claims to have evidence of the drone. An Iranian lawmaker suggests that maybe the CIA, instead of the Pentagon, is missing a spy drone.
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Covert US-Iran war bubbles over with claims of drone capture
Most of the actions in the US-Iran covert war remain mysterious and unclaimed – until one side sees an advantage in shining light on an incident. That’s what Iran has done with the drone capture.
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Terrorism & Security Did Iran just down a US drone by 'spoofing'? (+video)
Iran claims it captured a US drone in its airspace, which the US denies. If true, Iran may have brought the drone down by jamming signals and reconfiguring its GPS coordinates.
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Why one of China's richest men is squaring off against Obama in court
Wu Jialiang, CEO of Ralls Corp. is challenging Obama's refusal on national security grounds to let him build a wind farm in America, marking the first such high level case in the US from a Chinese firm.
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US-Russian crew chosen for yearlong space voyage
American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will launch on the one-year space station flight in spring 2015 and return to Earth in spring 2016.
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