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  Unprecedented movement detected on California earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor

  A major California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 earthquake has begun moving for the first time on record, a result of this year’s Ridgecrest earthquake sequence destabilizing nearby faults, Caltech scientists say in a new study released in the journal Science on Thursday.

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  'Overrated general' Mattis laughs off Trump barb at charity gala

  Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is laughing off an insult hurled at him by President Donald Trump. Speaking at a New York charity event Thursday the day after Trump demeaned him as "the world's most overrated general," Mattis joked that he took it as a compliment.

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  David E. Webb dies; flew more than 250 fighter missions in Vietnam

  David E. Webb of Maumee, Ohio, an accomplished airline pilot and cigar store owner who was an Air Force combat veteran of the Vietnam War, died Sept. 24 at ProMedica Flower Hospital. He was 77.

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  Officer at Vance pleads guilty to health care fraud

  Federal prosecutors say Maj. Romeatrius Moss, a nurse at the medical unit of Vance Air Force Base in Enid, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City, to soliciting and receiving a kickback.

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  Does the hypersonic SR-72 aircraft — 'Son of Blackbird' — already exist?

  For years, Lockheed Martin has been developing a successor to one of the fastest aircraft the world has ever seen, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Cold War reconnaissance craft that the U.S. Air Force retired almost three decades ago. Lockheed officials have said the hypersonic SR-72 could fly by 2030.