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Iraqi scientist says he helped Islamic State make chemical weapons
The Islamic State began a program in 2014 to make chemical weapons using both chlorine and a World War I-era toxin known as sulfur mustard.<br>Washington Post video screengrab
The Islamic State began a program in 2014 to make chemical weapons using both chlorine and a World War I-era toxin known as sulfur mustard.<br>Washington Post video screengrab

A former Iraqi official said in a prison interview that the Islamic State recruited experts for a secret program to make mustard gas. Some of them are believed to be still at large.

This May 14, 2017, photo distributed by the North Korean government shows the "Hwasong-12," a new type of ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. <br>Korean Central News Agency
This May 14, 2017, photo distributed by the North Korean government shows the "Hwasong-12," a new type of ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. <br>Korean Central News Agency

Secret North Korean missile site found, report says

The Sino-ri base is about 130 miles north of the DMZ and served as one of the first bases for the country's most widely deployed ballistic missile, the Nodong medium-range ballistic missile.

Iraq War veteran Brian Kolfage, left, sits with his wife Ashley Kolfage at their Tucson, Ariz., home on Feb. 3, 2012. Kolfage, a triple-amputee who lost his limbs serving in Iraq in the U.S. Air Force, started a GoFundMe page to help fund construction of President Donald Trump's border wall.<br>Pat Shannahan/The Arizona Republic/AP
Iraq War veteran Brian Kolfage, left, sits with his wife Ashley Kolfage at their Tucson, Ariz., home on Feb. 3, 2012. Kolfage, a triple-amputee who lost his limbs serving in Iraq in the U.S. Air Force, started a GoFundMe page to help fund construction of President Donald Trump's border wall.<br>Pat Shannahan/The Arizona Republic/AP

Air Force veteran changes focus of 'We The People Will Build the Wall' crowdfunding initiative

Brian Kolfage, the retired triple-amputee Air Force senior airman behind a GoFundMe campaign to help the federal government build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, has shifted his focus to his new Florida-based nonprofit corporation, WeBuildTheWall, Inc.

Kurdish fighters stand guard at the site of a suicide attack near the town of Shaddadeh, in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakeh, Syria, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. <br>ANHA via AP
Kurdish fighters stand guard at the site of a suicide attack near the town of Shaddadeh, in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakeh, Syria, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. <br>ANHA via AP

ISIS suicide bomber targets US convoy in northeast Syria

U.S. Army Col. Sean Ryan said there were no casualties among the U.S.-led coalition members.

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Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force
Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

Kadena airman found dead Sunday was member of 353rd Special Operations Group

The body of Airman 1st Class Jimmy Casillas was discovered Sunday afternoon at his on-base home at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. No further details have been made public.

A flag-draped coffin is moved during a funeral for veterans Wesley Russell, 76, Arnold Klechka, 71, and Charles Fox, 60 — who died last fall and whose remains were unclaimed — at the West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., on Jan. 17, 2019.<br>Karen Pulfer Focht/AP
A flag-draped coffin is moved during a funeral for veterans Wesley Russell, 76, Arnold Klechka, 71, and Charles Fox, 60 — who died last fall and whose remains were unclaimed — at the West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., on Jan. 17, 2019.<br>Karen Pulfer Focht/AP

Unclaimed veterans buried with dignity, thanks to strangers

A service in Memphis, Tenn., was part of a national effort by funeral homes, medical examiners, state and federal veterans’ affairs departments, and local veterans’ groups to pay final respects to members of the military whose bodies were not claimed by any relatives.

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Utah National Guard: Special Forces chaplain dies in swimming pool

Officials said the cause of Captain Corey C. Holmgren’s death is under investigation. Holmgren was a member of the 19th Special Forces Group at Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah.

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President Donald Trump walks on the South Law upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.<br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Trump's proposal to break budget deadlock falls flat

President Donald Trump's proposal to break through the budget deadlock appeared to be gaining little traction Monday, as another missed paycheck loomed for hundreds of thousands of workers and the partial federal shutdown stretched into its fifth week.

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Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

Kadena airman found dead Sunday was member of 353rd Special Operations Group

The body of Airman 1st Class Jimmy Casillas was discovered Sunday afternoon at his on-base home at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. No further details have been made public.

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Kosovo President Hashim Thaci speaks during an interview on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Pristina, Kosovo. <br>Visar Kryeziu/AP

Kosovo's president will go to Hague court, if summoned

Kosovo's president on Monday said he would respond positively if summoned by a European Union-funded court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after the 1998-99 independence war with Serbia.

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The Islamic State began a program in 2014 to make chemical weapons using both chlorine and a World War I-era toxin known as sulfur mustard.<br>Washington Post video screengrab

Iraqi scientist says he helped Islamic State make chemical weapons

A former Iraqi official said in a prison interview that the Islamic State recruited experts for a secret program to make mustard gas. Some of them are believed to be still at large.

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018 photo, the Sea-Watch rescue ship waits off the coast of Malta. <br>Rene Rossignaud/Associated Press

Boat with migrants rescued off Libya looks for port to dock

Sea-Watch tweeted that Libyan officials had hung up when it asked for a port assignment.

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President Donald Trump walks on the South Law upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.<br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Trump's proposal to break budget deadlock falls flat

President Donald Trump's proposal to break through the budget deadlock appeared to be gaining little traction Monday, as another missed paycheck loomed for hundreds of thousands of workers and the partial federal shutdown stretched into its fifth week.

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Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

Kadena airman found dead Sunday was member of 353rd Special Operations Group

The body of Airman 1st Class Jimmy Casillas was discovered Sunday afternoon at his on-base home at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. No further details have been made public.

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Kosovo President Hashim Thaci speaks during an interview on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Pristina, Kosovo. <br>Visar Kryeziu/AP

Kosovo's president will go to Hague court, if summoned

Kosovo's president on Monday said he would respond positively if summoned by a European Union-funded court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after the 1998-99 independence war with Serbia.

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The Islamic State began a program in 2014 to make chemical weapons using both chlorine and a World War I-era toxin known as sulfur mustard.<br>Washington Post video screengrab

Iraqi scientist says he helped Islamic State make chemical weapons

A former Iraqi official said in a prison interview that the Islamic State recruited experts for a secret program to make mustard gas. Some of them are believed to be still at large.

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018 photo, the Sea-Watch rescue ship waits off the coast of Malta. <br>Rene Rossignaud/Associated Press

Boat with migrants rescued off Libya looks for port to dock

Sea-Watch tweeted that Libyan officials had hung up when it asked for a port assignment.

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Colleen Starkey left West Virginia and was stationed around the world with the United States Army. After being in Iraq and Afghanistan, the sergeant was injured stateside and developed PTSD. Feeling the need to isolate herself made her lonely; but, getting Roger, the service dog pictured here, has put her on the road to social recovery. Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation Pets and Vets program pairs veterans with rescue dogs. <br> Judith Lowery/Newport News Daily Press/TNS
Colleen Starkey left West Virginia and was stationed around the world with the United States Army. After being in Iraq and Afghanistan, the sergeant was injured stateside and developed PTSD. Feeling the need to isolate herself made her lonely; but, getting Roger, the service dog pictured here, has put her on the road to social recovery. Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation Pets and Vets program pairs veterans with rescue dogs. <br> Judith Lowery/Newport News Daily Press/TNS

K9s for Warriors to add San Antonio campus for service-dog training

K9s for Warriors, which trains and pairs mostly rescue dogs with military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and/or military sexual trauma is planning to expand its program to Texas.

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Addisyn Shanle, center, and her sister Brookelyn, react when their dad, Chief Warrant Officer II Dustin Shanle, walked into the room to see the newest member of their family at HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 8, 2019.<br>Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register/AP
Addisyn Shanle, center, and her sister Brookelyn, react when their dad, Chief Warrant Officer II Dustin Shanle, walked into the room to see the newest member of their family at HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 8, 2019.<br>Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register/AP

Marine deployed to Afghanistan stuns daughters with surprise visit

Sisters Brookelyn and Addisyn Shanle squealed with delight when they saw their dad, Dustin Shanle, walk into the room at HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital. After all, he had flown halfway around the world to see the newest addition to their family, Callie Grace, who was born on New Year's Day and about seven weeks premature.

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In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 photo, U.S. Coast Guard Culinary Specialist Jerry Wright, right, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Laughlin, second from right, stack boxes of donated cereal at a pop-up food pantry created at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The pantry was created by local Coast Guard-related advocacy groups to help hundreds of civilian and non-civilian Coast Guard employees to help makes ends meet during the partial federal government shutdown.<br>Susan Haigh/AP
In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 photo, U.S. Coast Guard Culinary Specialist Jerry Wright, right, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Laughlin, second from right, stack boxes of donated cereal at a pop-up food pantry created at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The pantry was created by local Coast Guard-related advocacy groups to help hundreds of civilian and non-civilian Coast Guard employees to help makes ends meet during the partial federal government shutdown.<br>Susan Haigh/AP

As shutdown drags on, 'Coast Guard City' takes a hit

New London residents are rallying around their own as the partial government shutdown has left the Coast Guard — the only branch of the armed services that is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rather than the Pentagon — out in the cold.

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The Navy's next generation destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor.<br>U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Bath Iron Works
The Navy's next generation destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor.<br>U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Bath Iron Works

Navy 'stealth' destroyer named for Medal of Honor recipient to be commissioned in San Diego

The DDG 1001, the future USS Michael Monsoor, will be commissioned at 10 a.m. at Naval Air Station North Island, according to a release from the Navy. Monsoor’s mother, Sally Monsoor, will serve as the ship’s sponsor.

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Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force
Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

Kadena airman found dead Sunday was member of 353rd Special Operations Group

The body of Airman 1st Class Jimmy Casillas was discovered Sunday afternoon at his on-base home at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. No further details have been made public.

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Utah National Guard: Special Forces chaplain dies in swimming pool

Officials said the cause of Captain Corey C. Holmgren’s death is under investigation. Holmgren was a member of the 19th Special Forces Group at Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah.

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Addisyn Shanle, center, and her sister Brookelyn, react when their dad, Chief Warrant Officer II Dustin Shanle, walked into the room to see the newest member of their family at HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 8, 2019.<br>Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register/AP
Addisyn Shanle, center, and her sister Brookelyn, react when their dad, Chief Warrant Officer II Dustin Shanle, walked into the room to see the newest member of their family at HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital in Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 8, 2019.<br>Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register/AP

Marine deployed to Afghanistan stuns daughters with surprise visit

Sisters Brookelyn and Addisyn Shanle squealed with delight when they saw their dad, Dustin Shanle, walk into the room at HSHS St. John's Children's Hospital. After all, he had flown halfway around the world to see the newest addition to their family, Callie Grace, who was born on New Year's Day and about seven weeks premature.

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In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 photo, U.S. Coast Guard Culinary Specialist Jerry Wright, right, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Laughlin, second from right, stack boxes of donated cereal at a pop-up food pantry created at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The pantry was created by local Coast Guard-related advocacy groups to help hundreds of civilian and non-civilian Coast Guard employees to help makes ends meet during the partial federal government shutdown.<br>Susan Haigh/AP
In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019 photo, U.S. Coast Guard Culinary Specialist Jerry Wright, right, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Lauren Laughlin, second from right, stack boxes of donated cereal at a pop-up food pantry created at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. The pantry was created by local Coast Guard-related advocacy groups to help hundreds of civilian and non-civilian Coast Guard employees to help makes ends meet during the partial federal government shutdown.<br>Susan Haigh/AP

As shutdown drags on, 'Coast Guard City' takes a hit

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The Navy's next generation destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor.<br>U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Bath Iron Works
The Navy's next generation destroyer, the USS Michael Monsoor.<br>U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Bath Iron Works

Navy 'stealth' destroyer named for Medal of Honor recipient to be commissioned in San Diego

The DDG 1001, the future USS Michael Monsoor, will be commissioned at 10 a.m. at Naval Air Station North Island, according to a release from the Navy. Monsoor’s mother, Sally Monsoor, will serve as the ship’s sponsor.

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Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force
Kadena Air Base is home to the 353rd Special Operations Group in Okinawa, Japan.<br>Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force

Kadena airman found dead Sunday was member of 353rd Special Operations Group

The body of Airman 1st Class Jimmy Casillas was discovered Sunday afternoon at his on-base home at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa. No further details have been made public.

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Utah National Guard: Special Forces chaplain dies in swimming pool

Officials said the cause of Captain Corey C. Holmgren’s death is under investigation. Holmgren was a member of the 19th Special Forces Group at Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah.

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates with his teammates after the AFC Championship NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo.<br>Charlie Neibergall/AP

Super Bowl: Patriots vs Rams in a meeting of past vs future

It began in 2002, back when the Rams were in St. Louis and the Patriots were a plucky underdog standing in the way of a potential dynasty. So much has changed. This hasn't: Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates with his teammates after the AFC Championship NFL football game, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019, in Kansas City, Mo.<br>Charlie Neibergall/AP

Super Bowl: Patriots vs Rams in a meeting of past vs future

It began in 2002, back when the Rams were in St. Louis and the Patriots were a plucky underdog standing in the way of a potential dynasty. So much has changed. This hasn't: Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.