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Neo-Nazis excluded from military service by policy, but concerns persist
<br>Illustration by Bev Schilling/Stars and Stripes

Longstanding concerns about right-wing extremists in the military include such groups seeking to infiltrate the services to gain tactical knowledge and about troops’ radicalization after they’ve joined.

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White House to elevate cyber to full combatant command

U.S. Cyber Command will be elevated to a full combatant command and might split from the National Security Agency to streamline the military’s cyberspace operations, the White House announced Friday.

73 years later, a dig for answers to airman’s death makes a surprising find

After 73 years, Sgt. Alfonso O. Duran was still missing. A team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency arrived at a small town in Slovenia ready to find Duran's remains and bring him home. Along the way, they got to know more about the soldier and the town that buried him.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) moves to Dry Dock 4 on July 11, 2017, at Fleet Activities Yokosuka to continue repairs and assess damage sustained from its June 17 collision with a merchant vessel.<br>Peter Burghart/U.S. Navy

Navy relieves senior Fitzgerald leaders after ‘avoidable’ deadly collision

Adm. Bill Moran, the vice chief of Naval operations, said leadership aboard the guided-missile destroyer was at least partially at fault in the middle-of-the night collision that left seven sailors dead.

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Jesus Cantu, 59, a retired Navy captain and Stanford graduate, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego to conspiracy to commit bribery. He is the 19th defendant to be convicted so far. Federal prosecutors have charged 10 others whose cases are pending.<br>Screenshot via Stanford University

Another Navy officer pleads guilty to taking bribes from ‘Fat Leonard’

Jesus Cantu, 59, a retired Navy captain and Stanford graduate, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego to conspiracy to commit bribery. He is the 19th defendant to be convicted so far. Federal prosecutors have charged 10 others whose cases are pending.

Former congressman Norman Mineta, D-Calif., and former senator Alan K. Simpson, R-Wyo., share a moment after dinner in Cody, Wyo., near the preserved site of the Heart Mountain internment camp. <br>Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post

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Behind a WWII internment camp's barbed wire, 2 Scouts forged a lasting bond

When they are together, it's not hard to see the Boy Scouts they were when they met seven decades ago, in the barbed-wire Japanese internment camp that sprawled over desolate fields. One was imprisoned here; one belonged to the only troop that agreed to a jamboree on the inside.

The cathedral's majestic domed ceiling and round skylight are like a celestial eye. <br>Scott Wyland/Stars and Stripes

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Cathedral's grandeur breaks from tradition

The Basilica di San Francesco di Paola defies the conventional design of a Catholic cathedral or even the city’s other domed churches. Its striking incongruence and grandeur make it worth a visit.

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President Donald Trump salutes after walking down the steps of Air Force One with his grandchildren, Arabella Kushner, center, and Joseph Kushner, right, after arriving at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017.<br>Evan Vucci/AP

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Soothing the nation? Trump struggles like no other president

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Investigators examine materials at a command center Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Haleiwa, Hawaii after an Army helicopter with five aboard crashed late Tuesday.<br>Marco Garcia/AP

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President Donald Trump salutes after walking down the steps of Air Force One with his grandchildren, Arabella Kushner, center, and Joseph Kushner, right, after arriving at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017.<br>Evan Vucci/AP

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Soothing the nation? Trump struggles like no other president

In moments like this, of national crisis or tragedy, presidents typically use the broad appeal of the presidency to unite and soothe, urging citizens to remember their humanity, their common bonds as Americans. Like no other president in recent history, Trump has struggled with this part of his duties.

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Investigators examine materials at a command center Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Haleiwa, Hawaii after an Army helicopter with five aboard crashed late Tuesday.<br>Marco Garcia/AP

Underwater devices look for Army helicopter crew off Hawaii

The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it is searching up to 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the remote point where the Black Hawk helicopter crashed west of Oahu. Firefighters found and collected what appeared to be pieces of helicopter fuselage and a helmet.

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People gather at a memorial tribute of flowers, messages and candles to the victims on Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas promenade on the Joan Miro mosaic, embedded in the pavement where the van stopped after killing at least 13 people in Barcelona , Spain, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017.<br>Emilio Morenatti/AP

Spanish plan for carnage started with botched explosion

The back-to-back vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort had been planned for a long time by an Islamic terrorist cell — and could have been far deadlier had its base not been destroyed by an apparently accidental explosion this week, Spanish officials said Friday.

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This image made from video posted online Dec. 20, 2015, by supporters shows training of Islamic State. <br>Militant video screencap

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Marine Corps Col. Christopher J. Michelsen, left, hands the flag from Pfc. George Bernard Murray’s casket to his nephew, George Bernard Winslett, as the fallen Marine was finally laid to rest Friday, 74 years after his death while fighting in the Pacific during World War II<br>Joe Johnston/The Tribune (TNS)

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An MQ-1B Predator remotely piloted aircraft takes off from an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, March 21, 2017. On Thursday, a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator crashed in a field near Adana, Turkey.<br>Chris Church/Stars and Stripes

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Jesus Cantu, 59, a retired Navy captain and Stanford graduate, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego to conspiracy to commit bribery. He is the 19th defendant to be convicted so far. Federal prosecutors have charged 10 others whose cases are pending.<br>Screenshot via Stanford University

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Navy chants "Beat Army" after a 34-10 loss against Temple in the American Athletic Conference championship game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md., on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. <br>Paul W. Gillespie, Capital Gazette/Baltimore Sun/TNS

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