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Former Presidents George W. Bush, left, and George H.W. Bush arrive at St. Martin's Episcopal Church for a funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush on Saturday, April 21, 2018, in Houston.<br>David J. Phillip/AP
Former Presidents George W. Bush, left, and George H.W. Bush arrive at St. Martin's Episcopal Church for a funeral service for former first lady Barbara Bush on Saturday, April 21, 2018, in Houston.<br>David J. Phillip/AP

Addressing former presidents, ambassadors and hundreds of other mourners inside the nation’s largest Episcopal church on Saturday, historian Jon Meacham recalled former first lady Barbara Bush at her funeral.

U.S. Special Forces provide guidance to Niger troops during Flintlock 2018. The two-week war game, which ended Friday, was intended to boost combat capabilities of eight African nations taking part in the drills.<br>Special Operations Command Africa
U.S. Special Forces provide guidance to Niger troops during Flintlock 2018. The two-week war game, which ended Friday, was intended to boost combat capabilities of eight African nations taking part in the drills.<br>Special Operations Command Africa

Special operations soldiers shift training emphasis to help Africans fight terror groups

The Nigerien troops, 250 miles from their higher headquarters in Agadez, were at first reluctant at first to call their commanders with information about the unfolding battle simulation.

The Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, sails into Hong Kong for a port call on July 7, 2017. <br>Kin Cheung/AP
The Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, sails into Hong Kong for a port call on July 7, 2017. <br>Kin Cheung/AP

Japan: Chinese aircraft carrier performs drills in Pacific for 1st time

The Defense Ministry in Tokyo confirmed Saturday that for the first time China has conducted a drill in the Pacific with its sole operating aircraft carrier.

Former Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund leader Jan Scruggs joins more than 40 volunteers in cleaning the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, April 21, 2018. It was Scruggs' first visit to the memorial he helped build since spending 28 days in a coma last year due to endocarditis.<br>Ken-Yon Hardy/Stars and Stripes
Former Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund leader Jan Scruggs joins more than 40 volunteers in cleaning the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, April 21, 2018. It was Scruggs' first visit to the memorial he helped build since spending 28 days in a coma last year due to endocarditis.<br>Ken-Yon Hardy/Stars and Stripes

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Jan Scruggs returns to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, joins in cleaning

As a group of volunteers cleaned the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Saturday morning, they were joined by a man who was arguably the most important figure in the planning and construction of the wall that honors the more than 58,000 Americans who died in the conflict.

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First Lady Melania Trump and former first ladies Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.<br>Stars and Stripes
First Lady Melania Trump and former first ladies Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush.<br>Stars and Stripes

Why 4 first ladies will be at Barbara Bush's funeral

When first lady Melania Trump attends Barbara Bush's funeral on Saturday in Houston, she'll participate in another of these informal traditions. A delegation of first ladies has attended every funeral of another first lady since the 1960s.

Family members look to the flag-draped casket of deported Marine veteran, Enrique Salas, after it was placed in a hearse after a funeral Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Reedley, Friday morning, April 20, 2018. <br>John Walter/The Fresno Bee (TNS)
Family members look to the flag-draped casket of deported Marine veteran, Enrique Salas, after it was placed in a hearse after a funeral Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Reedley, Friday morning, April 20, 2018. <br>John Walter/The Fresno Bee (TNS)

This deported Marine veteran came home the only way he could — in a casket

Lance Cpl. Enrique Salas, a Persian Gulf War veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2006, was buried with military honors in a Reedley, Calif. cemetery on Friday beside his younger brother, another fallen Marine.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has filed a complaint with the Navy over a Bible being included into a POW/MIA display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.<br>Courtesy of MRFF
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has filed a complaint with the Navy over a Bible being included into a POW/MIA display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.<br>Courtesy of MRFF

San Diego-based admiral declines to probe Bible placement at Okinawa hospital

Although the Navy vowed to probe complaints by the troops that Navy officials in Okinawa were trying to convert people to Christianity through a Vietnam War display, an admiral in San Diego nixed the investigation.

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Seen in an undated photo, Jack Johnson, boxing's first black heavyweight champion, was convicted by all-white jury of "immorality" for one of his relationships. <br>AP

Trump considering pardon for late boxer Jack Johnson

President Donald Trump says he’s considering a posthumous pardon for boxing’s first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after the late Jack Johnson was convicted by all-white jury of accompanying a white woman across state lines.

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A still from "The Six," an upcoming documentary about the little-known Chinese survivors of the Titanic. <br>LP DOCS/Merryman Films

Why you've never heard of the 6 Chinese men who survived the Titanic

Six Chinese passengers survived the Titanic, a little-known fact about the historic disaster that has largely remained untold or distorted, owing to a racially hostile environment toward Chinese people at the turn of the 20th century. Now, the lives of these men are being examined in a new documentary.

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Sister Agnes-Marie Valois attends commemorations Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, at the Cemetery of Virtues in Dieppe, northern France, to honor Allied soldiers killed 70 years before in a failed World War II invasion. <br>Michel Spingler/AP

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The city of Dieppe in Normandy said a tribute to Sister Agnes-Marie Valois, who helped allied soldiers during a failed World War II raid, will be held April 24 at the Canadian cemetery.

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An Israeli F-15 on a mission. The Israeli Air Force has decided not to send F-15 fighter jets to a training exercise in Alaska, amid escalating tensions involving Syria and Iran, according to a report on Saturday, April 21, 2018.<br>

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The Israeli Air Force has decided not to send F-15 fighter jets to a 16-day training in Alaska that begins next week, amid escalating tensions involving Syria and Iran.

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U.S. Special Forces provide guidance to Niger troops during Flintlock 2018. The two-week war game, which ended Friday, was intended to boost combat capabilities of eight African nations taking part in the drills.<br>Special Operations Command Africa

Special operations soldiers shift training emphasis to help Africans fight terror groups

The Nigerien troops, 250 miles from their higher headquarters in Agadez, were at first reluctant at first to call their commanders with information about the unfolding battle simulation.

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Seen in an undated photo, Jack Johnson, boxing's first black heavyweight champion, was convicted by all-white jury of "immorality" for one of his relationships. <br>AP

Trump considering pardon for late boxer Jack Johnson

President Donald Trump says he’s considering a posthumous pardon for boxing’s first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after the late Jack Johnson was convicted by all-white jury of accompanying a white woman across state lines.

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A still from "The Six," an upcoming documentary about the little-known Chinese survivors of the Titanic. <br>LP DOCS/Merryman Films

Why you've never heard of the 6 Chinese men who survived the Titanic

Six Chinese passengers survived the Titanic, a little-known fact about the historic disaster that has largely remained untold or distorted, owing to a racially hostile environment toward Chinese people at the turn of the 20th century. Now, the lives of these men are being examined in a new documentary.

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Sister Agnes-Marie Valois attends commemorations Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, at the Cemetery of Virtues in Dieppe, northern France, to honor Allied soldiers killed 70 years before in a failed World War II invasion. <br>Michel Spingler/AP

French nun known as allied troops’ ‘White Angel’ dies at 103

The city of Dieppe in Normandy said a tribute to Sister Agnes-Marie Valois, who helped allied soldiers during a failed World War II raid, will be held April 24 at the Canadian cemetery.

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An Israeli F-15 on a mission. The Israeli Air Force has decided not to send F-15 fighter jets to a training exercise in Alaska, amid escalating tensions involving Syria and Iran, according to a report on Saturday, April 21, 2018.<br>

Israel pulls back fighter jets from Alaska joint exercise

The Israeli Air Force has decided not to send F-15 fighter jets to a 16-day training in Alaska that begins next week, amid escalating tensions involving Syria and Iran.

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U.S. Special Forces provide guidance to Niger troops during Flintlock 2018. The two-week war game, which ended Friday, was intended to boost combat capabilities of eight African nations taking part in the drills.<br>Special Operations Command Africa

Special operations soldiers shift training emphasis to help Africans fight terror groups

The Nigerien troops, 250 miles from their higher headquarters in Agadez, were at first reluctant at first to call their commanders with information about the unfolding battle simulation.

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Members of a 1968 expedition to the North Pole work to free a snowmobile from broken ice.<br>Jerry Pitzl
Members of a 1968 expedition to the North Pole work to free a snowmobile from broken ice.<br>Jerry Pitzl

'Last of the ice party that made it to the pole' marks milestone

He wasn't much of a camper – certainly not in Arctic conditions – and he'd never been on a snowmobile. But when Marine veteran Jerry Pitzl heard about a crackpot plan for a Ski-Doo expedition to the North Pole in the late 1960s, he was eager to join. Not that he had much of a choice.

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Brothers Johnny and James McClain were inducted into the Marine Corps Boxing Hall of Fame in April 2018.<br>
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The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has filed a complaint with the Navy over a Bible being included into a POW/MIA display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.<br>Courtesy of MRFF
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has filed a complaint with the Navy over a Bible being included into a POW/MIA display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.<br>Courtesy of MRFF

San Diego-based admiral declines to probe Bible placement at Okinawa hospital

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Brothers Johnny and James McClain were inducted into the Marine Corps Boxing Hall of Fame in April 2018.<br>
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Brothers receive Marine Corps Boxing Hall of Fame induction

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The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has filed a complaint with the Navy over a Bible being included into a POW/MIA display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.<br>Courtesy of MRFF
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has filed a complaint with the Navy over a Bible being included into a POW/MIA display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.<br>Courtesy of MRFF

San Diego-based admiral declines to probe Bible placement at Okinawa hospital

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A video screen grab shows rescue swimmer Petty Officer 2nd Class Lyman Dickinson being lowered to a vessel taking on water 18 miles west of La Jolla, California, on Friday, April 20, 2018. <br>

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American Overseas School of Rome's Denise Rapp fires a shot over a wall of Aviano defenders in the Falcons 3-1 victory over the Saints on Saturday, April 21, 2018.<br>Kent Harris/Stars and Stripes

AOSR, Marymount continue to handle the competition

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