Defense
Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face — even from fellow citizens. On the eve of the president's speech at the National Defense ...
UK emergency committee meets after attack
The British government's emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers butchered a British soldier in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital. Prime Minister David Cameron says there are strong indications it was an act of terrorism, and his top advisers will be ...
SPOTLIGHT: Graduating veteran made mark
Mat Jasieniecki readily admits that after he graduated from high school, he partied a bit too much, and after a while his grandparents told him to shape up. Jasieniecki, who was born in Poland and raised primarily by his grandparents in the south suburbs of Chicago, was always a curious ...
Decade-long cancer study at Pratt & Whitney ends
A massive, 11-year study of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney is coming to an end with what could be definitive information about fatal occupational illnesses at Connecticut plants. The subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. is set to unveil on Thursday the third and final phase of ...
Couple donates collection to Silver City library
SILVER CITY, N.M. - A Deming couple has donated a collection of research materials on 1st Lt. Charles Gatewood of the 6th U.S. Calvary, to the Silver City Public Library. The couple, Robert and Wilma Knox, embarked on the research about 10 years ago, after they had retired to Deming ...
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more ...
Brutal attack in London heightens terror fears
Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver. Soon after, arriving police shot and wounded the unidentified assailants and took ...
US soldier accused of secretly taping naked women
The U.S. Army said a soldier has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy, including in a bathroom. Wednesday's announcement came as members of a congressional panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a ...
EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES
c.2013 New York Times News Service THE CIA’S PART IN BENGHAZI Throughout months of Republican “investigation” into the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year, the CIA has escaped the scrutiny and partisan bashing aimed at the State Department and the White House. But we now know that ...
4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time that four U.S. citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress on Wednesday comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama. In conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against ...
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