Mayra Guillén turned 22 years old on the day U.S. Army investigators told her they had found her sister’s body buried in three separate shallow graves next to a river in central Texas. The news came on June 30, two months after her 20-year-old sister, Spc. Vanessa Guillén, went missing from Fort Hood, Texas, on …
The Oklahoma Senate on Monday unanimously passed a bill to reimburse the families of fallen Oklahoma National Guard members who die on state active-duty orders for their funeral expenses. The legislation was sent to Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday. He has up to five working days to enact or veto the bill, as Oklahoma is …
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Editor’s note: This article first appeared in September 2015 On April 22, 2008, in Ramadi, Iraq, two Marine infantrymen stood their ground and opened fire on a truck carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives as it barreled toward their post and the 150 Marines and Iraqi police inside the perimeter. The truck stopped just shy of …
PRAGUE (AP) – The Czech Republic on Thursday ordered more Russian diplomats to leave the country, further escalating a fierce tug-of-war between the two nations over the alleged involvement of Russian spies in a massive ammunition depot explosion in 2014. Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek said Russia won’t be allowed to have more diplomats in Prague …
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Caregivers of seriously wounded veterans who were previously denied benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs may get a new chance to appeal that decision under a court ruling issued this week. The move has the potential to award tens of thousands of dollars to some families that have struggled to act as full-time caregivers …
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