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    April 11, 2019
    Lip balm from central Minnesota county goes to Iraq
    OSAKIS, Minn. - U.S. soldiers serving overseas frequently find themselves working in all types of weather conditions. Spending so much time outdoors...
    business/agricultureApril 11, 2019 - 9:58am
    April 9, 2019
    A melting iceberg in Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada, June 14, 2014. (Michael Kirby Smith/Copyright 2019 The New York Times)
    As White House questions climate change, US military is planning for it
    WASHINGTON - In February, the White House devised a plan to challenge the scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is a main driver...
    news/science-and-natureApril 9, 2019 - 9:34am
    March 5, 2019
    An aerial view of the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, in Antarctica, in 2017. Scientists are racing to understand what is happening to the ice shelf as the planet warms around it. They are also trying to measure the role of human-caused climate change in weakening other parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and to fathom how damaging warming seas and changing wind patterns might ultimately prove to be. (Jonathan Corum/The New York Times)
    White House plans to counter climate change 'will erode our national security,' 58 former officials warn
    More than four dozen former military and intelligence officials are rebuking President Donald Trump for planning to counter the government's...
    news/science-and-natureMarch 5, 2019 - 12:54pm
    February 25, 2019
    Military's male-only draft registration requirement is unconstitutional, a judge ruled. What comes next is unknown.
    WASHINGTON - A ruling by a federal judge finding it unconstitutional to require men, but not women, to register for a draft into the U.S. military...
    news/nationFebruary 25, 2019 - 2:25pm
    February 19, 2019
    Agents patrol the US-Mexico border in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument National Monument on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, in Ajo, Arizona. Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.
    Border agents offer snacks and medical checks to families arriving in U.S.
    ARIZONA - This cactus forest on the U.S.-Mexico border was quiet one recent day. No mass crossings of migrant families. No sprinters. Just two...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 19, 2019 - 6:28pm
    February 15, 2019
    Federal judge temporarily blocks military from forcing out HIV-positive airmen
    WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Friday blocked the military from forcing out a pair of HIV-positive airmen, saying she had seen no evidence that...
    news/government-and-politicsFebruary 15, 2019 - 2:43pm
    February 10, 2019
    Mike Christofiles (Tim Middagh / Forum News Service)
    Fifty years later, Minnesota Vietnam vet gets his honors
    ROUND LAKE, Minn. — More than 50 years after serving his country as a pathfinder and paratrooper with the 101st Airborne in the Vietnam War,...
    community/peopleFebruary 10, 2019 - 4:59pm
    January 28, 2019
    Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Sept. 21, 2017. Bloomberg photo by Michael Nagle.
    US, Taliban move closer to deal on American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
    KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. and Taliban officials have inched closer to an agreement that could meet a key Taliban demand for U.S. troop withdrawals,...
    news/government-and-politicsJanuary 28, 2019 - 12:56pm
    January 26, 2019
    U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Division oversee training of the 215th Corps of the Afghan National Army at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afg. on March 22, 2016. The U.S. has about 11,000 troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Aug. 30, 2017, acknowledging for the first time publicly that the total forces there are higher than formally disclosed in recent years. The new count includes covert as well as temporary units, defense officials said. Adam Ferguson/The New York Times
    US-Taliban talks appear closer to pact after marathon talks in Qatar
    KABUL, Afghanistan - After six days of intensive negotiations, Taliban insurgents and U.S. officials meeting in Qatar appear closer Saturday...
    news/government-and-politicsJanuary 26, 2019 - 2:33pm
    January 22, 2019
    The Supreme Court. Washington Post photo by Ricky Carioti
    Supreme Court lets Trump's restrictions on transgender troops take effect
    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump's broad restrictions on transgender people serving in the military to...
    news/government-and-politicsJanuary 22, 2019 - 8:19pm
    January 16, 2019
    FILE -- U.S. Special Forces troops near Manbij, Syria, on Feb. 7, 2018. The pending withdrawal from Syria is the latest example of a broader American disengagement from the Middle East. Russia and Iran are filling the void. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times/Copyright 2019)
    Four Americans killed in suicide attack in Syria amid plans for withdrawal
    BEIRUT - The Islamic State asserted responsibility Wednesday for a suicide blast in the U.S.-patrolled city of Manbij in Syria, the first such...
    news/worldJanuary 16, 2019 - 11:03am
    December 23, 2018
    Acting National Security Adviser Keith Kellogg waits for the arrival of President Donald Trump at the top of the steps of Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Feb. 17, 2017. (Al Drago/Copyright 2017 The New York Times)
    COMMENTARY: We succeeded in Syria. Now it's time to leave.
    The day Donald Trump became commander in chief, he immediately made the effort to destroy the reprehensible Islamic State caliphate in Syria...
    opinion/columnsDecember 23, 2018 - 5:18pm
    President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis would leave his position at the end of February. Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford
    Trump forces Mattis out early, names former Boeing exec acting defense secretary
    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, who aides said has been seething about news coverage of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis's scathing resignation...
    news/government-and-politicsDecember 23, 2018 - 1:25pm
    December 10, 2018
    President Donald Trump speaks during a conference with state and local military veterans leaders at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, Nov. 15, 2018. (Al Drago/The New York Times/Copyright 2018)
    Trump administration presses court to allow military to restrict transgender troops
    WASHINGTON - The Trump administration's policy restricting transgender men and women from serving in the U.S. military returns Monday to a federal...
    news/government-and-politicsDecember 10, 2018 - 3:42pm
    February 22, 2018
    Reader Opinion: Well-regulated militia
    A few points on the "yet another" mass school shooting with 17 lives cut short. One, as far as mental health, do you think they have mental health issues in Australia, Canada, Europe? Of course they do. But how many mass shootings do they have there? Two, I was in both the active...
    opinion/lettersFebruary 22, 2018 - 7:30am
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