LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Cape Verde’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a businessman close to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who was arrested last year in the West African country can be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges, a lawyer said. Geraldo Almeida, one of the Cape Verde attorneys representing Alex Saab in …

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Minority students are significantly underrepresented when it comes to getting nominations from members of Congress to attend the nation’s military service academies, according to an analysis released Wednesday. The study by the Connecticut Veterans Legal Center and the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School included nearly 25 … View original article

American military members around the world have been showing off the inside of their barracks rooms for months in a crowdsourced version of MTV Cribs. “If you’re in the military and you live in the barracks, use this sound to show off your barracks room,” a soldier named Chandler Flood said in a video posted …

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The National Guard has long been America’s “break glass in case of emergency” force — and the glass has been thoroughly shattered. Over the last two decades, the Guard’s role has only grown. When it became clear that the Iraq War was dragging on longer than expected, the National Guard was deployed en masse to …

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