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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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A week before he died, Lance Cpl. Jack Ryan Ostrovsky told his father he was worried about the condition of the amphibious assault vehicles (AAV) used to ferry U.S. combat Marines from a Navy ship to the shore. He confided to his father, retired federal agent Peter Ostrovsky, that the heavily-armored AAVs “sink all the …

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McLEAN, Va. — At least one FBI agent opened fire on an armed man outside CIA headquarters in Virginia on Monday, authorities said. The suspect was shot and wounded after he “emerged from his vehicle with a weapon,” around 6 p.m., the FBI said in a statement. The unidentified suspect was taken to a local …

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