Defense Budget Cuts Would Limit Raises and Close Bases
By ELISABETH BUMILLER and THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON — The Pentagon took the first major step toward shrinking its budget after a decade of war as it announced Thursday that it wanted to limit pay raises for troops, increase health insurance fees for military retirees and close bases in the United States. Although the pay-raise limits were described as [...]
At least six civilians have been killed in a suicide attack at the international airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say. The attack happened outside the perimeter of the airport, where thousands of foreign troops are based. They appear to have been the target, though Nato says none was killed. The Taliban [...]
Continue reading …Osama bin Laden, the longtime leader of al Qaeda, was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion north of Islamabad, Pakistan. By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — The operation that killed Osama bin Laden was designed to do just that, not to take him alive, a U.S. government official told CNN Monday. DNA matching [...]
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AP – Hali Denton’s been counting ballots in Alaska for 36 years. She’s never been through an election like this — with a Senate race in limbo, its fate hinging on the write-in ballots she’s helping sort — and she’ll be glad when it’s over. Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News Related Reading: Official US Military [...]
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Reuters – Rebuffed in her party’s primary, Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is now poised to become the first U.S. senator in half a century to win as a write-in candidate if most of roughly 100,000 ballots to be examined this week bear her name, or something close to it. Yahoo! News: U.S. Congress News Related [...]
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