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U.S. / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The U.S. military cannot automatically discharge people because they are gay, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in the case of a decorated flight nurse who sued the Air Force over her dismissal. The three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 11:50pm neoform

Washington Post -- Just months after U.S. Army troops whisked a German man from Pakistan to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002, his American captors concluded that he was not a terrorist. "USA considers Murat Kurnaz's innocence to be proven," a German i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

MSNBC -- A military judge denied a request Wednesday by defense lawyers for immediate access to the admitted mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and two other top imprisoned terrorism suspects. The attorneys had sought to derail the latest effort to prosecute a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 2:29pm neoform

Yahoo News -- President George W. Bush Tuesday said Iran was still a danger and refused to take military options off the table, despite a US intelligence report saying it had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. "The best diplomacy, effective diplomacy, is on.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 14, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen forme.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 10, 2007 @ 8:57pm neoform

Daily Mail -- When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:39pm neoform

CNN -- A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Albert Snyder of York, P.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 12:46pm neoform

Army Times -- An Iraq war veteran said Tuesday he is returning his military medals in what anti-war groups are calling a rare and powerful protest. Josh Gaines, 27, plans to mail the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Service Medal to f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 12, 2007 @ 12:30pm neoform

USA Today -- Brittany Vojta survived boot camp. It was high school she couldn't make it through. So the National Guard ran her through a program it started this year in Pennsylvania for privates who drop out of high school after having joined the military. In an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:34am neoform

New York Times -- President George W. Bush cannot order the military to indefinitely imprison a suspected al Qaeda operative, who is the only foreign national held in the United States as an "enemy combatant," a court ruled on Monday. The 2-1 appellate ruling was a majo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 9, 2007 @ 8:21pm neoform

CBS News -- A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fight.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 10:21pm neoform

BBC News -- A US military panel has recommended a marine be involuntarily discharged after he was pictured at an anti-war protest dressed in desert fatigues. Marine Corporal Adam Kokesh was accused of misconduct. The military bans the unauthorised wearing of unifo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:31pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- The US military's system of tribunals at Guantánamo Bay was thrown into chaos today after a military judge threw out all charges against a young Canadian detainee. One senior military official said the ruling in the case of Omar Khadr could have a "hu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:40am neoform

FOX News -- A former Navy lieutenant living in northwestern Wisconsin has been illegally selling military equipment, including laser gun sights, and hoarding automatic weapons, federal prosecutors said. Federal agents and police discovered more than 65 machine gun.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 1:29pm neoform

Washington Post -- The Army has asked Loudoun County public schools to distribute a survey to help identify students interested in the military, a proposal some parents contend would give the armed service an unfair recruiting edge over colleges and other career paths. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 9:01pm neoform

SF Gate -- YouTube's co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon's assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military's principal rationale for blocking popular Web sites from Defense Department computers... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 7:46am neoform

FOX News -- Three brothers charged in the alleged Fort Dix terror plot have been living illegally in the U.S. for more than 23 years and were accepted as Americans by neighbors and friends who had no idea they would scheme to attack military bases and slaughter GIs... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 4:19pm neoform

CNN -- Had they lived, they might have gone on to change the world as teachers, military officers or engineers -- but the killer who cut so many lives short at Virginia Tech snatched all that away. Mourners remembered the 32 victims of Monday's killings durin.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

FOX News -- The struggle to entice Army soldiers and Marines to stay in the military, after four years of war in Iraq, has ballooned into a $1 billion campaign, with bonuses soaring nearly sixfold since 2003. The size and number of bonuses have grown as officials.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 12:24am neoform

Washington Post -- Two key congressional leaders secretly flew to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Saturday to observe the closed military hearing for al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed, according to Capitol Hill staff members and Pentagon officials. Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mic.. Read More