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1 hr 6 mins ago - The former commander of a U.S. Army sniper team testified Friday that he ordered one of his soldiers to kill an Iraqi who had stumbled on their hiding place, saying that was the only way to ensure the safety of his men in hostile territory.
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3 hrs ago - A classified Pentagon assessment concludes that long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with persistent terrorist activity and other threats, have prevented the U.S. military from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis, The Associated Press has learned.
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3 hrs ago - A classified Pentagon assessment concludes that long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with persistent terrorist activity and other threats, have prevented the U.S. military from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis, The Associated Press has learned.
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5 hrs ago - Lingering anger in Europe over the U.S. invasion of Iraq explains why some allies are reluctant to heed U.S. calls for more combat troops in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. It was his first public acknowledgment of such a link to the Iraq war.
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5 hrs ago - Lingering anger in Europe over the U.S. invasion of Iraq explains why some allies are reluctant to heed U.S. calls for more combat troops in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday. It was his first public acknowledgment of such a link to the Iraq war.
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6 hrs ago - Strained by war, recently discharged veterans are having a harder time finding civilian jobs and are more likely to earn lower wages for years due partly to employer concerns about their mental health and overall skills, a government study says.
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10 hrs ago - Key events in the first year of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign:
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17 hrs ago - He sent troops to Iraq against stiff opposition in Paris and Berlin, rejected the Euro as fellow leaders embraced economic harmony and angered neighbors by playing hardball over the European Union budget.
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18 hrs ago - The twin pressures of a looming recession and an election year combined to speed a $168 billion economic rescue plan through Congress, sweeping aside lawmakers' political differences in favor of rushing $600-$1,200 checks to their constituents.
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20 hrs ago - Facing a fractured Republican Party, presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain stressed his fealty to Ronald Reagan on Thursday in an effort to win over conservatives after Mitt Romney dropped out of the presidential race.
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1 day ago - Strained by war, recently discharged veterans are having a harder time finding civilian jobs and are more likely to earn lower wages for years due partly to employer concerns about their mental health and overall skills, a government study says.
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1 day ago - The United States and Britain, the nations with the most troops fighting in Afghanistan, made a renewed push Thursday to portray the war as winnable and worthy of international support despite a so-far-unsuccessful struggle to get more allies to commit frontline forces.
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1 day ago - Dozens of Iraqi legislators walked out of parliament Thursday to protest parts of a draft law that would lay out rules for provincial elections later this year, marking another potential setback for U.S.-backed proposals to ease Iraq's sectarian rifts.
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1 day ago - The United States and Britain, the nations with the most troops fighting in Afghanistan, made a renewed push Thursday to portray the war as winnable and worthy of international support despite a so-far-unsuccessful struggle to get more allies to commit frontline forces.
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1 day ago - New Veterans Affairs Secretary James Peake pledged Thursday to trim more than five weeks off the time it now takes to get the first check to a war veteran who files a disability claim.
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2 days ago - Who would have believed it? John McCain - occasional antagonist of the establishment, defender of an unpopular war, loser of the 2000 primary campaign - stands as the likely Republican nominee for president.
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2 days ago - Who would have believed it? John McCain - occasional antagonist of the establishment, defender of an unpopular war, loser of the 2000 primary campaign - stands as the likely Republican nominee for president.
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2 days ago - If you believe the barrage of broadcast ads and mailers sent out on behalf of the three major Republican candidates in the 1st Congressional District, they’re all liberals.
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3 days ago - Former Gov. Mitt Romney had enough goodwill left among fellow Massachusetts Republicans to carry him over rival John McCain, while Hillary Rodham Clinton held a lead over Barack Obama in early returns.
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3 days ago - With Republican candidates outspending them 7 to 1, it’s easy to forget that there is a race among Democrats for the 1st Congressional District seat now held by nine-term Republican Rep. Wayne Gilchrest.
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4 days ago - A sampling of recent editorials from Colorado newspapers:
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4 days ago - U.S. TROOP LEVELS:
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4 days ago - The stands of these 2008 presidential candidates on a selection of issues: New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Democrats; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Republicans.
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4 days ago - Pocketbook concerns outrank the war in Iraq among Minnesota voters early in this presidential election year, according to a Minnesota Public Radio News/Humphrey Institute poll published Monday.
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4 days ago - Although public-opinion polling indicates the state of the economy has supplanted the war in Iraq as Americans’ prime concern, how we got into that war and what to do about it remains a centerpiece in the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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4 days ago - Iraq's presidency council issued a law Sunday that will allow thousands of Saddam Hussein-era officials to return to government jobs, legislation viewed by the Bush administration as central to mending deep fissures between minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds and the majority Shiites who now wield power.
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