USS Bataan, sailors take a break for maintenance after 135 days at sea

The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan returned to open waters Friday after undergoing much-needed maintenance after its near-record 135 days at sea in an area of heightened tension, which put a strain on the amphibious ready group and the ship’s crew.

The discount store that sues servicemembers worldwide

With stores near military bases across the country, the retailer USA Discounters offers easy credit to service members. But when those loans go bad, the company uses the local courts near its Virginia headquarters to file suits by the thousands.

For lenders, gaps in federal law make suing servicemembers easy

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Nearly 70 years after USS Indianapolis tragedy, survivor tells his tale

They were baptized by a thick layer of oil, fuel and fear when the Indianapolis went into the water on a little after midnight on July 30, 1945. Over the next three days and four nights, more than 880 sailors would succumb to the dehydration, hypothermia and sharks.

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What happened? The day Flight 17 was downed

It was lunchtime when a tracked launcher with four SA-11 surface-to-air missiles rolled into town and parked on Karapetyan Street. Fifteen hundred miles to the west, passengers were checking in for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

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Japan still clearing World War II bombs from Okinawa

World War II ended 69 years ago, but shells are still exploding off the coast of Okinawa.

World War II bombs still menace Germany

WWII bombs found off Vero Beach to be moved prior to detonation

House to Obama: No troops to Iraq without our approval

The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday that would bar President Barack Obama from sending forces to Iraq in a "sustained combat role" without congressional approval, a bill with greater symbolic than legal effect.

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Pacific Angel: Building military relationships in paradise

Servicemembers are routinely called on to deploy to Spartan trouble spots where the locals may try to kill them and entertainment consists of pumping iron or watching DVDs in a plywood shed.
FBI investigating scam targeting immigrant children’s families
War College to investigate plagiarism allegations
Dependent benefits extended to gay and lesbian spouses in Italy
AFRICOM chief: Military just 1 piece of Africa's security puzzle
Federal judge denies Jeffrey MacDonald's bid for new trial
IG: St. Louis veterans benefits office botches one-third of disability claims
Military Update: Smaller BAH raises, higher drug co-pays gain steam
IBM introduces Watson to consumers in service for USAA clients
Chinese army deploys dancing robots, Big Macs to burnish image

Navy secretary: Cost for newest ship will decline

Operating costs for the U.S. Navy's newest ships will decline and "become more normal" over time, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Thursday.
Mabus: Female submariners to be assigned to Pearl Harbor

The first women on Virginia-class attack submarines in the Pacific will serve on the USS Texas and USS Mississippi at Pearl Harbor starting in fiscal 2016, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Thursday.
US says China tested anti-satellite missile
Japan still clearing World War II bombs from Okinawa

Some in 'torture' report denied chance to read it

About a dozen former CIA officials named in a classified Senate report on decade-old agency interrogation practices were notified in recent days that they would be able to review parts of the document in a secure room in suburban Washington after signing a secrecy agreement.
Obama urges Central American leaders to help

President Barack Obama met with Central American leaders Friday to urge them to help slow the stream of unaccompanied children from their countries to the U.S., as House Republicans tried to agree on their own proposed solution to the crisis at the Mexican border.
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FBI investigating scam targeting immigrant children’s families
Taco ride raises $5,000 for Wounded Warriors
Ground broken for Fort Hood shootings memorial
'They're basically ruthless': The discount store that sues servicemembers worldwide
Rescued Afghanistan puppies reunited with Fort Bragg soldier

In Gaza lull, residents return to destroyed areas

Thousands of Gaza residents who had fled Israel-Hamas fighting streamed back to devastated border areas during a lull Saturday to find large-scale destruction: scores of homes were pulverized, wreckage blocked roads and power cables dangled in the streets.
Panel clears Kuwaiti 'forever prisoner' for repatriation from Guantanamo

The Obama administration’s parole board has approved for release from Guantánamo a Kuwaiti man whose lawyers took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court but then lost his federal court challenge.
Afghan Taliban leader warns against pact with US
Kerry says no deal yet on 7-day Gaza truce

Obama's UN envoy takes lead role in plane downing response

One day after a passenger jet was shot out of the sky, Samantha Power took her seat at the United Nations Security Council and angrily began building the Obama administration's case against separatists in eastern Ukraine and their Russian benefactors.
Putin said to press Ukraine gambit after Malaysia jet attack

President Vladimir Putin will resist mounting pressure to abandon pro-Russian rebels immediately while seeking to convince the world that Ukraine, not the insurgents, shot down Malaysian Air Flight MH17, according to three people familiar with Kremlin discussions.
Dependent benefits extended to gay and lesbian spouses in Italy
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'They're basically ruthless': The discount store that sues servicemembers worldwide July 25, 2014
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