MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin Army National Guard member and his friend have been charged with entering the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack. Abram Markofski and Brandon Nelson have been charged with four counts including entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, …
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TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday named Col. Lisa Hou as his pick to head of the state’s National Guard and serve as commissioner of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Hou currently serves as the interim adjutant general and department commissioner. She will be the first woman and first …
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GONDAR, Ethiopia (AP) – Aba Yosief Desta preferred not to discuss the ethnicities of victims in the widening conflicts threatening Ethiopia’s unity. A wooden cross in hand, the Orthodox monk in yellow robes insisted that victims of massacres “have the same face.” Speaking to The Associated Press from the city of Gondar, where he manages …
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) – China’s U.N. ambassador expressed hope Monday that President Joe Biden’s policy toward North Korea will give more importance to diplomacy and dialogue instead of “extreme pressure” to try to stop Pyongyang’s nuclear program and denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Zhang Jun said China also hopes the review of U.S. policy will give …
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) – The Marine Corps inspector general, Major General Robert Castellvi, has been suspended amid the ongoing probes into last summer’s fatal sinking of a seafaring tank off the Southern California coast, a newspaper reported Monday. Nine men died in the accident involving an amphibious assault vehicle July 30 near San Clemente …
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