The New York Army National Guard on Friday identified three soldiers who were killed when their UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed Wednesday night on a routine training mission. Chief Warrant Officer 5 Steven Skoda, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Christian Koch and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Daniel Prial were all pilots aboard the medical evacuation helicopter. …

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Twitter has suspended an account used by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after he posted an image showing a Donald Trump-like figure on a golf course apparently being targeted by a missile strike. The Photoshopped image posted late Thursday on the Iranian leader’s account depicted a figure in red about to hit a golf …

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MADRID (AP) – Public outrage is growing in Spain as cases of politicians and well-connected opportunists jumping the queue in the national coronavirus vaccination campaign come to light, even as delivery delays have forced some regions to stop new inoculations. Spain’s Defense Ministry has been the latest governmental department to launch an internal inquiry to …

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An executive order signed Wednesday by President Joe Biden barring discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity does not apply to U.S. military personnel. But advocates for transgender service members say they expect that a Defense Department policy that puts limits on transgender troops will be overturned soon. As …

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MENDON, N.Y. (AP) – The three National Guard members killed when a helicopter crashed in an upstate New York field this week were experienced pilots with past deployments to Afghanistan, officials said Friday. Killed in the crash were Chief Warrant Officer 5 Steven Skoda, 54, of Rochester, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Christian Koch, 39, of …

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