Tag: U.S. Department of Defense

Officials give Congress few answers on Afghanistan pullout

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WASHINGTON — Defense officials had few solid answers Wednesday as frustrated lawmakers sought details on how the United States will keep the terrorist threat...

Takeaways: Partisan discord instead of Jan. 6 answers

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WASHINGTON — A House hearing about what went wrong in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege frequently spiraled into partisan shouting matches on Wednesday, with...

Iran rejects US claim that speedboats sparked encounter

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday rejected the U.S. Navy's claim that fast-approaching Iranian speedboats in the Strait of Hormuz sparked...

Decision on Minuteman to shape US nuclear policy for decades

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WASHINGTON — For 50 years the Minuteman missile has been armed and ready, day and night, for nuclear war on a moment's notice. It...

Flight 93 families hope heroism award helps keep story alive

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Serene, stark and seemingly in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania, the National Park Service memorial to the people who died...

Watchdog says Capitol Police deficient at monitoring threats

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WASHINGTON — The Capitol Police force was hobbled by inadequate intelligence gathering ahead of the Jan. 6 siege, a watchdog says in a new...

US ship fires warning shots in encounter with Iranian boats

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Coast Guard cutter fired two volleys of warning shots Monday as a group of 13 Iranian fast boats sped toward...

Pentagon reconsidering huge JEDI cloud-computing contract

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is reconsidering how to make a massive shift to cloud computing, officials said Monday, suggesting it could scrap the so-called...

China discounts possibility of harm from falling rocket

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BEIJING — China says the upper stage of its Long March 5B rocket that launched the core module of its space station will mostly...

Former acting Defense chief to testify on Jan. 6 response

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WASHINGTON — Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller is scheduled to testify next week about the Pentagon's role in responding to the deadly Jan....