I was sitting in a Quonset hut during downtime in training many years ago when a door burst open and one of my platoon mates appeared, wrapped in tape and 550 cord from head to toe. He was a junior Marine, a private first class in our 81 mm mortar platoon who had made the …
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PARIS (AP) – The French government on Wednesday unveiled a new counterterrorism and intelligence bill aiming at better preventing attacks, notably via a greater surveillance of extremist websites. The bill, which had been in preparation for months, was formally presented in a Cabinet meeting just days after a French police official was killed inside her …
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A teenager from Arkansas has pleaded guilty to shooting and killing a U.S. service member from Westbrook during an attempted robbery of a gas station in North Little Rock in 2019. Drequan Lamont Robinson, 19, pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder in the shooting death of Shawn McKeough Jr., 23, who tackled one of two gunmen …
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MIRAMAR BEACH — The May 24 trial date that had been set for Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage and co-defendants on federal charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering has slipped drastically, according to recent court documents. In a March 2 order, U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres of the Southern District of New York …
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JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Coast Guard has decommissioned a ship whose home port was in Alaska after almost 50 years in service. The cutter Douglas Munro was decommissioned in a ceremony in Kodiak on Saturday. The ship was commissioned in 1971 and has served across the world. The Coast Guard said the Douglas Munro …
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