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Panetta: Cuts to defense spending would be 'disastrous'
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday that it would be “disastrous” for Congress to allow cuts in defense spending to take place as scheduled in January. In an interview that aired on ABC’s “This Week,”...
Tags: Republican Party, The Pentagon, ABC (tv network), Mitt Romney, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hollywood a longtime friend of the CIA
WASHINGTON — Some Republican lawmakers were outraged when federal records released last week showed that the White House, CIA and Defense Department granted high-level access last year to a pair of acclaimed filmmakers researching an action thriller...
Tags: Republican Party, Thriller (genre), Police Investigations, U.S. Department of Defense, Abbottabad (Pakistan)
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Postscript: Where the federal money goes
The Times' editorial Wednesday on the looming debt-ceiling battle in Washington prompted reader Paul Moser of Studio City to write: "You state that entitlements are behind Washington's debt problems. This is not the case. Military expenditures that are...
Tags: Republican Party, Social Security, Career and Workplace, Prostate Cancer, Medicare
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NATO summit: Obama's Pakistan gamble falls flat
CHICAGO — When the White House sent a last-minute invitation for Asif Ali Zardari to attend the two-day NATO summit, they were taking a highly public gamble. Would sharing the spotlight with President Obama and other global leaders induce the...Tags: U.S. Navy, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military, Asif Ali Zardari, Leon Panetta
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Two female soldiers sue military over ban on combat roles
Two female soldiers are suing the Department of Defense and the Army to end policies prohibiting women from serving in a combat role. Their complaint, filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that the military is...
Tags: Feminism, Laws, The Pentagon, U.S. Army, Trials
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At NATO summit, warm welcome for most leaders, but not Pakistan's
CHICAGO — As thousands of protesters marched in the streets, President Obama welcomed more than 60 world leaders to his heavily guarded hometown for a NATO summit that will start the clock for America and its allies to begin pulling combat troops...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Haqqani Network, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Asif Ali Zardari, Taliban
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U.S. officials frustrated as Pakistan still blocking supply routes
World NowObama administration officials are showing growing frustration at Pakistan’s refusal to reopen ground routes used to move fuel and other war supplies into Afghanistan, a six-month standoff that the White House had hoped to resolve before the NATO... -
Federal judge blocks National Defense Authorization Act provision
In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laws, Politics, Lawyers, National Security
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Same-sex marriage debate shifts to Congress
WASHINGTON-- Despite House Speaker John A. Boehner’s efforts to steer Congress clear of the same-sex marriage debate, his conservative majority will push the issue to the floor this week. House Republicans want to ban the use of military chapels...
Tags: Republican Party, Sex Crimes, U.S. Department of Defense, The Pentagon, Democratic Party
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House Republicans add gay marriage measure to defense bill
WASHINGTON — Wading into the gay marriage debate, the Republican-led House tacked a provision banning same-sex marriages at military chapels onto a sweeping defense bill that is now headed to the Senate. Despite the high-octane public discussion...
Tags: Republican Party, Wars and Interventions, Todd Akin , U.S. Department of Defense, Democratic Party
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President Putin stresses Russia's role in world security
World NowRussian President Vladimir Putin, in speech Wednesday marking the country’s Victory Day holiday commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany, declared his intention to remain a tough, weary-of-the-West leader focused on world security.... -
Panetta: U.S. doing everything possible to free captive soldier
World NowPut on the defensive after the parents of a U.S. soldier held captive by Afghan insurgents complained about government inaction, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Thursday that U.S. officials were doing everything possible to win his release....
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