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‘Hard act to follow’: Pearl Harbor veterans become rare gems as ranks thin 78 years after tragedy
Lou Conter, 98, one of only three living survivors USS Arizona survivors, salutes during the Walk of Honor after a Dec. 7, 2019, ceremony at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial marking the surprise attack 78 years ago.<br>Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes
Lou Conter, 98, one of only three living survivors USS Arizona survivors, salutes during the Walk of Honor after a Dec. 7, 2019, ceremony at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial marking the surprise attack 78 years ago.<br>Wyatt Olson/Stars and Stripes

This year, the roughly dozen survivors attending were so few they were seated on a raised platform in front of the audience, becoming more objects of high esteem than mere observers of the somber anniversary ceremony.

The entrance to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 29, 2016.<br>AP
The entrance to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 29, 2016.<br>AP

FBI says it presumes NAS Pensacola shooting was act of terrorism

The FBI is working under the presumption that a fatal shooting at a Florida naval base carried out by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia was an act of terrorism, the agency said Sunday.

President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019. North Korea threatened Thursday, Dec. 5, to resume insults of Trump and consider him a “dotard” if he keeps using provocative language. <br>Susan Walsh/AP
President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019. North Korea threatened Thursday, Dec. 5, to resume insults of Trump and consider him a “dotard” if he keeps using provocative language. <br>Susan Walsh/AP

North Korea announces 'very important test' at rocket launch site in ominous sign for 2020

The statements were the latest sign that hopes for diplomacy are unraveling ahead of a year-end deadline set by North Korea for Washington to offer concessions to restart stalled nuclear talks.

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Joshua Kaleb Watson<br>Facebook

Family recounts heroics of fallen sailor in Pensacola shooting

Joshua Watson had just graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and looked forward to a military career as a pilot. On Saturday, he was being hailed a hero, as his family recounted how the 23-year-old — in his last minutes of life — led first responders to an active shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola.


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The Reece Road entrance gate at Fort Meade.<br>MCT file photo
The Reece Road entrance gate at Fort Meade.<br>MCT file photo

Congressman accuses Fort Meade housing contractor of retaliating against military families

The company in charge of privatized military housing projects on Fort Meade, Md., has been accused of retaliating against service members who complained of poor conditions there, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

Members of the Krippner family raise a flag Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in tribute to victims of a Minnesota National Guard Black Hawk helicopter crash that happened on their land near Kimball, Minn. Three soldiers were killed in Thursday's crash at the edge of a farm field about 30 miles south of St. Cloud.<br>Dave Schwarz, St. Cloud (Minn.) Times/AP
Members of the Krippner family raise a flag Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, in tribute to victims of a Minnesota National Guard Black Hawk helicopter crash that happened on their land near Kimball, Minn. Three soldiers were killed in Thursday's crash at the edge of a farm field about 30 miles south of St. Cloud.<br>Dave Schwarz, St. Cloud (Minn.) Times/AP

Minnesota National Guard identifies 3 killed in helicopter crash

The Guard identified the men who were killed in Thursday’s crash as Chief Warrant Officers 2nd Class James A. Rogers Jr., 28, and Charles P. Nord, 30, and Sgt. Kort M. Plantenberg, 28.

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies June 19, 2018, before a joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. <br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies June 19, 2018, before a joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. <br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Justice Department watchdog expected to find Russia probe valid, despite flaws

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog will release a highly anticipated report Monday that is expected to reject President Donald Trump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegitimate and tainted by political bias from FBI leaders. But it also is expected to document errors during the investigation that might animate Trump supporters.

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Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies June 19, 2018, before a joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. <br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Justice Department watchdog expected to find Russia probe valid, despite flaws

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog will release a highly anticipated report Monday that is expected to reject President Donald Trump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegitimate and tainted by political bias from FBI leaders. But it also is expected to document errors during the investigation that might animate Trump supporters.

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Police officers cordon off the site of a fire in a narrow lane in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. <br>Manish Swarup/AP

Devastating factory fire kills at least 43 in Indian capital

Many of the men were migrant workers from the impoverished border state of Bihar in eastern India.

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A NATO Star logo flag flies during the military and political alliance's summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on July 12, 2018. <br>Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg

NATO seminar canceled as US objects to anti-Trump speaker

The Danish Atlantic Council says it has canceled a U.S. government-sponsored seminar on NATO and transatlantic relations after the U.S. Embassy in Denmark allegedly banned an American academic known for being critical of President Donald Trump from speaking there.

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People walk in front of a restaurant with signs indicating its "single section" and its "family section" in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. <br>Amr Nabil/AP

Saudi restaurants no longer need to segregate women and men

Women in Saudi Arabia will no longer be required to use separate entrances from men or to sit behind partitions at restaurants in the latest measure announced by the government that upends a major hallmark of conservative restrictions that had been in place for decades.

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A video screen grab shows a migrant resting in a detention center in Sabha, Libya, on July 17, 2019.<br>AP

UN Libya migrant center plagued with crowding, TB, food cuts

The United Nations center in Libya was opened as an "alternative to detention," a last, safe stop for migrants before they were resettled in other countries. Now, just a year later, it looks increasingly like the notorious Libyan lockups it was supposed to replace.

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Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies June 19, 2018, before a joint House Committee on the Judiciary and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. <br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Justice Department watchdog expected to find Russia probe valid, despite flaws

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog will release a highly anticipated report Monday that is expected to reject President Donald Trump’s claims that the Russia investigation was illegitimate and tainted by political bias from FBI leaders. But it also is expected to document errors during the investigation that might animate Trump supporters.

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Police officers cordon off the site of a fire in a narrow lane in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. <br>Manish Swarup/AP

Devastating factory fire kills at least 43 in Indian capital

Many of the men were migrant workers from the impoverished border state of Bihar in eastern India.

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A NATO Star logo flag flies during the military and political alliance's summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on July 12, 2018. <br>Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg

NATO seminar canceled as US objects to anti-Trump speaker

The Danish Atlantic Council says it has canceled a U.S. government-sponsored seminar on NATO and transatlantic relations after the U.S. Embassy in Denmark allegedly banned an American academic known for being critical of President Donald Trump from speaking there.

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People walk in front of a restaurant with signs indicating its "single section" and its "family section" in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019. <br>Amr Nabil/AP

Saudi restaurants no longer need to segregate women and men

Women in Saudi Arabia will no longer be required to use separate entrances from men or to sit behind partitions at restaurants in the latest measure announced by the government that upends a major hallmark of conservative restrictions that had been in place for decades.

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A video screen grab shows a migrant resting in a detention center in Sabha, Libya, on July 17, 2019.<br>AP

UN Libya migrant center plagued with crowding, TB, food cuts

The United Nations center in Libya was opened as an "alternative to detention," a last, safe stop for migrants before they were resettled in other countries. Now, just a year later, it looks increasingly like the notorious Libyan lockups it was supposed to replace.

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World War II veteran John Campbell, a Marine Corps sergeant when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was honored during a veterans luncheon at La Vida Del Mar, December 6, 2019 in Solana Beach, Calif.<br>TNS
World War II veteran John Campbell, a Marine Corps sergeant when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was honored during a veterans luncheon at La Vida Del Mar, December 6, 2019 in Solana Beach, Calif.<br>TNS

Pearl Harbor survivor not worried about the nation remembering

As a Pearl Harbor survivor, John Campbell calls himself "a dying breed." But he doesn't worry too much about what it means – what will be lost – when the last of his kind is gone.

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This 60-mm flare mortar landed in a farmer's field near Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Okinawa Defense Bureau<br>Okinawa Defense Bureau
This 60-mm flare mortar landed in a farmer's field near Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Okinawa Defense Bureau<br>Okinawa Defense Bureau

Marines suspend use of illumination flares after ‘several’ land off base on Okinawa

Mortar flare rounds were found Thursday and Friday outside training grounds near Camp Hansen.

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At Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial in La Jolla is a plaque for Navy pilot Ensign Albert Joe Hickman, who crashed his crippled jet into a San Diego canyon 60 years ago, on December 4, 1959, narrowly avoiding a nearby elementary school with 700 students.<br>The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS
At Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial in La Jolla is a plaque for Navy pilot Ensign Albert Joe Hickman, who crashed his crippled jet into a San Diego canyon 60 years ago, on December 4, 1959, narrowly avoiding a nearby elementary school with 700 students.<br>The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS

60 years later, a jet crash remembered

The crash on Dec. 4, 1959 cost Albert Joe Hickman his life, but his actions before the F3H Demon crashed into a Clairemont canyon were credited with saving the lives of hundreds of students attending a nearby school.

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In this Sept. 23, 2011 photo, A Coast Guard 38-foot Special Purpose Craft Training Boat sits at the fuel pier in Women's Bay at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska. Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska's Kodiak Island. <br>Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen/U.S. Coast Guard
In this Sept. 23, 2011 photo, A Coast Guard 38-foot Special Purpose Craft Training Boat sits at the fuel pier in Women's Bay at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska. Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska's Kodiak Island. <br>Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen/U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard, Navy boats collide in Alaska; nine injured

Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska's Kodiak Island.

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Pilot Charlie Nord, 30, was among the three guardsmen killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Minnesota on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.<br>Javion Siders/U.S. Army
Pilot Charlie Nord, 30, was among the three guardsmen killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Minnesota on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.<br>Javion Siders/U.S. Army

Pilot killed in Minnesota National Guard helicopter crash remembered

As a pilot with the Minnesota National Guard, Charlie Nord couldn't believe he was lucky enough to fly helicopters. "Charlie was excited to be that person who everyone looked up to," said one friend.

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The entrance to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 29, 2016.<br>AP
The entrance to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 29, 2016.<br>AP

FBI says it presumes NAS Pensacola shooting was act of terrorism

The FBI is working under the presumption that a fatal shooting at a Florida naval base carried out by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia was an act of terrorism, the agency said Sunday.

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This 60-mm flare mortar landed in a farmer's field near Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Okinawa Defense Bureau<br>Okinawa Defense Bureau
This 60-mm flare mortar landed in a farmer's field near Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Okinawa Defense Bureau<br>Okinawa Defense Bureau

Marines suspend use of illumination flares after ‘several’ land off base on Okinawa

Mortar flare rounds were found Thursday and Friday outside training grounds near Camp Hansen.

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At Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial in La Jolla is a plaque for Navy pilot Ensign Albert Joe Hickman, who crashed his crippled jet into a San Diego canyon 60 years ago, on December 4, 1959, narrowly avoiding a nearby elementary school with 700 students.<br>The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS
At Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial in La Jolla is a plaque for Navy pilot Ensign Albert Joe Hickman, who crashed his crippled jet into a San Diego canyon 60 years ago, on December 4, 1959, narrowly avoiding a nearby elementary school with 700 students.<br>The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS

60 years later, a jet crash remembered

The crash on Dec. 4, 1959 cost Albert Joe Hickman his life, but his actions before the F3H Demon crashed into a Clairemont canyon were credited with saving the lives of hundreds of students attending a nearby school.

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In this Sept. 23, 2011 photo, A Coast Guard 38-foot Special Purpose Craft Training Boat sits at the fuel pier in Women's Bay at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska. Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska's Kodiak Island. <br>Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen/U.S. Coast Guard
In this Sept. 23, 2011 photo, A Coast Guard 38-foot Special Purpose Craft Training Boat sits at the fuel pier in Women's Bay at Coast Guard Base Kodiak, Alaska. Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska's Kodiak Island. <br>Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen/U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard, Navy boats collide in Alaska; nine injured

Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska's Kodiak Island.

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Pilot Charlie Nord, 30, was among the three guardsmen killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Minnesota on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.<br>Javion Siders/U.S. Army
Pilot Charlie Nord, 30, was among the three guardsmen killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Minnesota on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.<br>Javion Siders/U.S. Army

Pilot killed in Minnesota National Guard helicopter crash remembered

As a pilot with the Minnesota National Guard, Charlie Nord couldn't believe he was lucky enough to fly helicopters. "Charlie was excited to be that person who everyone looked up to," said one friend.

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The entrance to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 29, 2016.<br>AP
The entrance to the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., on Jan. 29, 2016.<br>AP

FBI says it presumes NAS Pensacola shooting was act of terrorism

The FBI is working under the presumption that a fatal shooting at a Florida naval base carried out by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia was an act of terrorism, the agency said Sunday.

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Harris scores 31 to lead Nevada over Air Force 100-85

Lavelle Scottie scored a season-high 23 points and had eight rebounds for the Falcons (4-6, 1-1).

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Harris scores 31 to lead Nevada over Air Force 100-85

Lavelle Scottie scored a season-high 23 points and had eight rebounds for the Falcons (4-6, 1-1).