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Navy won’t punish vice admiral stripped of security clearance during ‘Fat Leonard’ probe
Vice Adm. Ted "Trig" Branch, the former director of Navy intelligence, was stripped of his security clearance amid the Fat Leonard bribery scandal.<br>U.S. Navy

The Navy on Friday closed its review with what it called appropriate administrative action for Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch, the former director of Navy intelligence.

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, left, shakes hands with President Donald Trump after being privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House. <br>Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post

Chafing over Kelly’s style as he tames White House

Chief of Staff John Kelly's no-task-too-small leadership style — dating to his training in the Marine Corps, where he rose to a four-star general — implements a sense of order and discipline in a White House known for lacking both. But it also has prompted grumbling about micromanaging within the West Wing.

An aerial view of the Pentagon as seen from a Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter on July 8, 2011.<br>Tia Dufour/U.S. Marine Corps

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House panel wants to overhaul Defense Intelligence Agency

The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency is in the crosshairs of the House Intelligence Committee, which is aiming for a radical overhaul of the military’s spy arm.

A California sea lion with the Navy Marine Mammal Program appears shy as a handler escorts the animal to meet reporters onboard the USS Ponce in the Persian Gulf, Nov. 3, 2014.<br>Hendrick Simoes/Stars and Stripes

After criticism of sea mammal program, Navy boots up robots

Housed at the Spanish Landing facility of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command or SPAWAR, the Navy Marine Mammal Program has come under fire from animal welfare groups.

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In this undated photo, Mike Sanzaro poses while deployed to Vietnam as a machine gunner.<br>Family photo

Team effort led to long-overdue Purple Heart for Vietnam vet Mike Sanzaro

The VA doctors told Vietnam veteran Mike Sanzaro that he rated a Purple Heart. The problem was, with four decades having gone by and no medical records of the event, he would have to find a witness. Sanzaro decided not to pursue the medal he deserved. Family members and fellow Marines had other ideas.

People wear dust masks as they watch rescuers work to save people believed to be still alive inside a collapsed office building in the Roma Norte neighborhood of Mexico City, Sept. 22, 2017.<br>Rebecca Blackwell/AP

New earthquake, magnitude 6.1, shakes jittery Mexico

A strong new earthquake shook Mexico on Saturday, causing new alarm in a country reeling from two still-more-powerful quakes this month that have killed nearly 400 people.

A bas-relief carved from wood during the Middle Ages at the Worms Museum in the Andreasstift.<br>Will Morris/Stars and Stripes

Europe Quick Trips

Worms museum features Germany’s Neolithic, Roman and medieval periods

Set in a former church and monastery built around the 12th century, the Worms City Museum is the perfect place to spend a few hours learning some interesting facts about Germany’s ancient and medieval history.

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People move in to take a closer look at the "Comfort Women" monument after it was unveiled Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in San Francisco. The monument was dedicated to the young women victims of Japanese military sexual slavery from 1932 until the end of World War II in 1945.<br>Eric Risberg/AP

San Francisco unveils memorial to WWII 'comfort women'

Yongsoo Lee abducted from her Korean homeland at 15 and forced into working in brothels servicing Japanese soldiers during WWII. Now 89, Lee spoke at the dedication of the latest of dozens of statues put up around the world, commemorating the ordeal of thousands of women like her.

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In this May 8, 2016, file photo, a North Korean solder stands guard near barrels stacked up near the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.<br>Chinatopix via AP

China imposes limit on oil supply to North Korea

Exports of refined petroleum to the North will be limited to 2 million barrels per year and sales of liquefied natural gas banned outright, effective Jan. 1.

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A Russian Antonov transport plane AN124 carries parts of Lufthansa plane "Landshut" as it stands at the airport in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.<br>Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa /AP

German plane hijacked to Somalia in 1977 brought back home

A Lufthansa passenger jet that was hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home.

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With a picture of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the background Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Istanbul.<br>Presidency Press Service, Pool/AP

Turkey says it won't accept Kurdish independence vote

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim again called on Iraqi Kurdish leaders to abandon plans for a referendum on independence, saying it wasn't too late for them to turn away "from this adventure."

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Michael, 8, is hugged by his mother Blandine at their home in the Congo Ituri province capital Bunia on Aug. 11, 2016. Michael has never met his father and only knows that he was a foreigner from one of the peacekeeping missions in the country.<br>Jerome Delay/AP

UN Peacekeepers: Congo leads world in sex abuse allegations

In a yearlong investigation, the AP found that despite promises of reform for more than a decade, the U.N. failed to meet many of its pledges to stop the abuse or help victims, some of whom have been lost to a sprawling bureaucracy.

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People move in to take a closer look at the "Comfort Women" monument after it was unveiled Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in San Francisco. The monument was dedicated to the young women victims of Japanese military sexual slavery from 1932 until the end of World War II in 1945.<br>Eric Risberg/AP

San Francisco unveils memorial to WWII 'comfort women'

Yongsoo Lee abducted from her Korean homeland at 15 and forced into working in brothels servicing Japanese soldiers during WWII. Now 89, Lee spoke at the dedication of the latest of dozens of statues put up around the world, commemorating the ordeal of thousands of women like her.

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In this May 8, 2016, file photo, a North Korean solder stands guard near barrels stacked up near the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong.<br>Chinatopix via AP

China imposes limit on oil supply to North Korea

Exports of refined petroleum to the North will be limited to 2 million barrels per year and sales of liquefied natural gas banned outright, effective Jan. 1.

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A Russian Antonov transport plane AN124 carries parts of Lufthansa plane "Landshut" as it stands at the airport in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017.<br>Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa /AP

German plane hijacked to Somalia in 1977 brought back home

A Lufthansa passenger jet that was hijacked to Somalia 40 years ago at the height of a far-left militant group's campaign against West German authorities has returned home.

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With a picture of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the background Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in Istanbul.<br>Presidency Press Service, Pool/AP

Turkey says it won't accept Kurdish independence vote

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim again called on Iraqi Kurdish leaders to abandon plans for a referendum on independence, saying it wasn't too late for them to turn away "from this adventure."

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Michael, 8, is hugged by his mother Blandine at their home in the Congo Ituri province capital Bunia on Aug. 11, 2016. Michael has never met his father and only knows that he was a foreigner from one of the peacekeeping missions in the country.<br>Jerome Delay/AP

UN Peacekeepers: Congo leads world in sex abuse allegations

In a yearlong investigation, the AP found that despite promises of reform for more than a decade, the U.N. failed to meet many of its pledges to stop the abuse or help victims, some of whom have been lost to a sprawling bureaucracy.

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Robert Chenoweth looks at a pair of shorts he was issued by his North Vietnamese captors. <br>Kai Eiselein/For The Washington Post

Traitors or patriots? Vietnam POWs were charged with collaborating with the enemy

50 years after the war's peak years of 1967 and 1968, accusations of collaboration show how bitter divisions over the war extended even to the prison camps, and how deep they remain.

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Air Force Reserve Chaplain Capt. Sonny Hernandez.<br>U.S. Air Force

Air Force: Investigators reviewing statements by outspoken chaplain Hernandez

After initially denying an investigation, the Air Force said Friday that its inspector general’s office is reviewing complaints against reserve chaplain Capt. Sonny Hernandez, who proclaimed that Christian servicemembers are wrong to support the rights of other faiths to practice their religion, actions that he said will lead them to hell.

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Neon lights twinkle above police line tape on Aug. 10, 2016.<br>Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Naval Base San Diego military police officer accused of raping teen

Isaiah Jackson, a 21-year-old military police officer, is accused of raping a girl he met through a cellphone app intended for teens.

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Spc. Jennifer Kipybida was a human resources specialist assigned to 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum.<br>U.S. Army

Fort Drum soldier killed in crash receives posthumous promotion

The Fort Drum soldier that was killed Sunday in a car crash in Oneida County has been posthumously promoted, Army officials said.

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Person escapes fire on boat off Whidbey Island

One person is safe after the Coast Guard responded to a massive boat fire off Whidbey Island, Washington.

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A memorial at Camp Fuji, Japan honors the fallen from the fire that occurred on Oct. 19, 1979.<br>U.S. Marine Corps photo

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Four decades later, the memory of the wind and rain and deadly fire is as vivid as ever for Marine Corps veteran Joe Macdonald.

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Air Force Reserve Chaplain Capt. Sonny Hernandez.<br>U.S. Air Force

Air Force: Investigators reviewing statements by outspoken chaplain Hernandez

After initially denying an investigation, the Air Force said Friday that its inspector general’s office is reviewing complaints against reserve chaplain Capt. Sonny Hernandez, who proclaimed that Christian servicemembers are wrong to support the rights of other faiths to practice their religion, actions that he said will lead them to hell.

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Neon lights twinkle above police line tape on Aug. 10, 2016.<br>Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Naval Base San Diego military police officer accused of raping teen

Isaiah Jackson, a 21-year-old military police officer, is accused of raping a girl he met through a cellphone app intended for teens.

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Spc. Jennifer Kipybida was a human resources specialist assigned to 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum.<br>U.S. Army

Fort Drum soldier killed in crash receives posthumous promotion

The Fort Drum soldier that was killed Sunday in a car crash in Oneida County has been posthumously promoted, Army officials said.

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Person escapes fire on boat off Whidbey Island

One person is safe after the Coast Guard responded to a massive boat fire off Whidbey Island, Washington.

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A memorial at Camp Fuji, Japan honors the fallen from the fire that occurred on Oct. 19, 1979.<br>U.S. Marine Corps photo

38 years later, Marine veteran gets 'a chance to say goodbye' to Camp Fuji fire victims

Four decades later, the memory of the wind and rain and deadly fire is as vivid as ever for Marine Corps veteran Joe Macdonald.

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Naples tops Vicenza to stay tied atop South

Jackson Blivin performed the heavy lifting, gathering a game-high 151 yards on 21 carries and scoring a touchdown.

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Naples tops Vicenza to stay tied atop South

Jackson Blivin performed the heavy lifting, gathering a game-high 151 yards on 21 carries and scoring a touchdown.