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        <title><![CDATA[Trump says IS territory in Syria nearly eliminated]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The complete fall of Baghouz would mark the end of the Islamic State group's self-declared caliphate, which at its height stretched across large parts of Syria and Iraq. Controlling territory gave it room to launch attacks around the world.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Veterans helping veterans through crisis in California]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Against the backdrop and heartache of the persistently high suicide rates of veterans, authorities are touting a new Los Angeles County program as a breakthrough in responding to veterans experiencing a mental health crisis as a tactic that could save lives.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cleanup underway after fire at Texas petrochemicals facility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The fire, which started Sunday , sent a huge, dark plume of smoke thousands of feet into the air before being extinguished at 3 a.m. Wednesday. The tanks that caught fire contained components of gasoline and materials used in nail polish remover, glues and paint thinner.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[“I think about those events every day:” Retired Army sergeant receives upgraded Distinguished Service Cross ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Retired Sgt. Daniel Cowart’s Distinguished Service Cross is one of a dozen Silver Star medals announced recently made eligible for an upgrade by the Army through a review process of post-9/11 valor awards that began in 2016. ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[UAE deports man who praised New Zealand mosque attacks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A resident of the United Arab Emirates who worked for a security firm was detained and deported after making comments on Facebook celebrating the New Zealand mosque attacks that killed 50 people.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Man who caused Fort Bragg gate closure faces seven charges]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An affidavit of the criminal complaint filed against Nouran Ahmad Shiba Sueidan states that he attempted to gain access to Fort Bragg at 10:30 a.m. on March 12 without proper identification and repeated requests to tour “the special operations facility.”]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ex-Marine, citing PTSD, gets prison for parking spat bombing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said he would have sentenced Richard Laugel to 20 years in prison if not for his military heroism, which included two stints in Iraq.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA['There is death all over': Cyclone Idai toll rises above 300]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mozambique began three days of national mourning on Wednesday for more than 200 victims of Cyclone Idai, while the death toll in neighboring Zimbabwe rose to more than 100 from one of the most destructive storms to strike southern Africa in decades.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Trump unleashes fresh attack on McCain following GOP criticism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At an Ohio tank factory, President Donald Trump enumerated a list of grievances against the late senator, who died in August, including that he had wrongly supported the war in Iraq and “badly” hurt the Republican party and the nation by voting against repealing Obamacare.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Europe fines Google $1.7 billion in antitrust case]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Europe's antitrust regulators slapped Google with a big fine Wednesday for the third time in less than two years, ordering the tech giant to pay $1.7 billion for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business. The ruling brings to nearly $10 billion the fines imposed against Google by the European Union.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[DOD IG to probe allegations acting Pentagon chief’s actions benefited former employer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The investigation will determine whether acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan has promoted Boeing, where he worked for more than 30 years before arriving at the Pentagon in 2017, or disparaged the massive aerospace firm’s competitors]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Green Beret shares message of resilience with Georgia cadets]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wounded in Afghaninstan in 2006, Army Lt. Col. Kenneth Dwyer told students at the Georgia Military College and Prep School of overcoming adversity and having the tools necessary to do so — not just as individuals, but also as leaders.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tuskegee Airman, Red Tail exhibit land at Florida airport]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Commemorative Air Force Red Tail Squadron’s “Rise Above” Traveling Exhibit at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport features a movie theater, a fully operational Red Tail P-51C Mustang, and appearances by Retired Tuskegee Airmen pilot Lt. Col. George E. Hardy.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pompeo lauds US-Israel ties, giving boost to Netanyahu]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday lauded the White House's warm ties with Israel during a visit to the country and promised to step up pressure on Iran, giving a public boost to Israel's prime minister at the height of a tight re-election campaign.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Army veteran is found guilty of double homicide against wife and NY state trooper]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An Army combat veteran from upstate New York has been found guilty of a double homicide in which he shot and killed his wife and a state trooper.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Trump: Let Mueller report come out, 'let people see it']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he believes special counsel Robert Mueller's report should be released to the public. "Let's see whether or not it's legit."]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Boeing braces for Pennsylvania job cuts as Army calls stop on Chinook upgrades]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Army’s March 8 budget request scratches the Chinook upgrade, stops production of Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and reduces planned purchases of Joint Strike Force vehicles, .50-caliber machine guns and forklifts, among other familiar war tools.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Abuse victim 'livid' that Marines did not reinstate her former husband's suspended sentence]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Former Marine Bradley Darlington was previously dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps and sentenced to 11 years in prison, with all but five suspended, after pleading guilty to the seven charges, which included domestic violence.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Suicide spurs VA Medical Center in Florida to review how it monitors patients]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The suicide took place 15 days after a patient opened fire in the emergency room at the VA Medical Center in Riviera Beach, Fla., injuring two people. The medical center has not said what safeguards, if any, it would add as a result of that incident.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Turkey's Erdogan sparks spat with Australia, New Zealand]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Turkey's president has sparked an acute diplomatic spat with far-off New Zealand and Australia, referring to a key World War I campaign and the more recent Christchurch mosque shooting as targeting Islam.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Trump visiting Ohio factory for tanks Army didn’t want, as tariffs hurt other workers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The tank factory the president will visit in Lima, Ohio, nearly closed six years ago; Army officials told Congress that they didn’t need any more of the heavy M-1 Abrams tanks it produces because they are less geared toward modern wars against insurgents.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Michigan residents take action on clean water where military won’t]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Contamination seeping from the Camp Grayling National Guard base is polluting local lakes and groundwater. Across Michigan, municipalities are now either budgeting for PFAS response where chemicals are found in drinking water or wastewater, or are casting a worried eye as the number of contaminated sites continues to climb.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[California National Guard to leave border, help stop fires]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Starting in April, 110 California National Guard troops will devote their time to fire protection, and will receive 11 days of training in using shovels, rakes and chain saws to help thin trees and brush.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[3 years on, what's become of the EU-Turkey migration deal?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In March 2016, European governments breathed a sigh of relief as the European Union reached a deal with Turkey designed to stop hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants heading into the heart of Europe.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jobs at Robins AFB: Some said goal was impossible. They will be proven wrong, commander says]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the State of the Base luncheon, Brig. Gen. John Kubinec, commander of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, who announced a plan in August to hire 1,200 people in 12 months, said 886 people have been hired, while another 276 are in the hiring process.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dutch police question new suspect in tram shooting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Dutch police and prosecutors on Wednesday were pursuing "every lead there is" and questioning two suspects to establish whether the deadly shooting on a tram in the central city of Utrecht was an act of terror.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[North Macedonia officials say 7 plead guilty to joining, fighting for ISIS]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Officials in North Macedonia say seven of the country's nationals have pleaded guilty to joining the Islamic State group and fighting with it in Syria and Iraq.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[South Boston residents angered over WWII memorial vandalism; cleanup continues]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[State police said the vandalism was reported Monday about 11:30 a.m. and troopers found “some type of oil” splashed or poured onto the memorial. Crews were at the memorial Monday and Tuesday, trying different solutions to clean the oil off.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gallipoli pain resurfaces after Erdogan's incendiary remarks]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[More than a century on from the carnage that saw around 44,000 Allied soldiers killed and an estimated 250,000 Turkish casualties, memories of the Gallipoli campaign have resurfaced in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings that saw 50 people killed.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[US-backed Syrian fighters search tunnels in last ISIS pocket]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[U.S.-backed Syrian fighters are searching tunnels a day after seizing most of the last pocket of land held by Islamic State militants, an official said Wednesday.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[‘The McCain family deserves better,’ GOP senator says as Trump continues to lash out]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After an escalation of bitter words from President Donald Trump this week, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is ready to deliver what he calls a whipping on the Senate floor Wednesday.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Italy: Driver abducts schoolchildren, sets bus ablaze]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A bus driver in northern Italy abducted 51 children and their chaperones Wednesday, threatening them over a 40-minute ordeal before setting the vehicle on fire when he was stopped by a Carabinieri blockade.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[UN judges increase sentence for Bosnian ex-leader to life]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[United Nations appeals judges on Wednesday upheld the convictions of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and increased his sentence from 40 years to life imprisonment.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[New Zealand police: Mosque gunman had planned a third attack]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Police said Wednesday they believe the suspect in a March 15 mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand was on his way to a third attack when officers ran him off the road and arrested him.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Finland tops global happiness index for second consecutive year]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Finland has topped an index of the happiest nations for the second consecutive year, with researchers saying the small Nordic country of 5.5 million has succeeded in generating a happiness recipe for a balanced life not simply dependent on economic and material wealth.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Malinda's Room: A place where traveling troops can call home]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, the Pease Greeters and Service Credit Union hosted a ribbon-cutting for the newly refurbished Malinda’s Room in the airport terminal, a center where troops traveling to or from Portsmouth, N.H., can call anywhere in the world for free.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[France to deploy troops to maintain security during protests]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that soldiers will be deployed across the country to help maintain security during yellow vest protests planned this weekend.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Israeli army: 2 Palestinians killed in clashes with troops]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Israeli military says it has shot and killed two Palestinians who attacked troops in a West Bank city.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Navy enacts almost all changes recommended after fatal USS Fitzgerald, USS McCain collisions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine container ship in June 2017, killing seven sailors. Two months later, the USS John S. McCain ran into a Liberian merchant vessel, resulting in the deaths of 10 sailors.]]></description>
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