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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.14.14 >>> Ukraine accused Russian army officers of fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country and said Moscow was once more building up its troops on the joint border. Rand Paul to Rick Perry on Iraq: Get some new glasses. America and
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.12.14 >>> U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry scrambles to produce a deal today to end Afghanistan's election crisis, meeting for the second day with the country's two presidential candidates and incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad
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California chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling an unspecified amount of its chicken products because the products may be contaminated with a strain of salmonella Heidelberg, according to a Department of Defense All Food and Drug Activity message sent July 9. The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture said Thursday it
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.11.14 >>> A rocket attack by pro-Russian rebels on a border post on Ukraine's border with Russia today may have killed as many as 30 soldiers and border guards. A fourth day of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip killed 11 more
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.10.14 >>> Two different sets of fighters were possibly involved in the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three other Americans. Under sequestration, the Pentagon faces $500 billion in cuts over the next decade. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.9.14 >>> A top official at the Veterans Affairs Department says he is sorry that VA employees have suffered retaliation after making complaints about poor patient care, long wait times and other problems. North Korea launched two projectiles this morning into the sea
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.8.14 >>> Officials are warning troops and DoD civilians in the state of Washington that indulging in pot could result in consequences. The Israeli army, air force and navy launched a major operation today against the Islamist militant group Hamas in the Gaza
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.7.14 >>> Israeli air strikes killed seven Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip following the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli youths and a Palestinian teen. Ukraine to lay siege to rebel-held regional centers. Ukraine's richest man pleads for city's safety after rebels vow to
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GRAB A COFFEE AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.5.14 >>> Taliban insurgents set fire to about 200 oil tanker trucks supplying fuel for NATO forces in an attack just outside the Afghan capital Kabul. Government forces recaptured a flashpoint area of eastern Ukraine from pro-Russian rebels. Why Putin turned against the U.S. Chairman
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.3.14 >>> Iraq chases Baghdad sleeper cells as "Zero Hour" looms over capital. Israel said today it was beefing up its forces along its frontier with the Gaza Strip. Iran has reduced demands for the size of its future nuclear enrichment program in talks
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.2.14 >>> The United States has sent Apache attack helicopters to Iraq as part of the buildup in U.S. military personnel. A team of 100 contingency response airmen have been ordered into Iraq to protect U.S. assets at Baghdad International Airport. Democrats are defending
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 7.1.14 >>> President Obama told Congress that he is deploying about 200 more troops to Iraq to bolster security at the U.S. Embassy and airport in Baghdad. Violence in Iraq could delay the delivery of American F-16 fighter jets to the Baghdad government after
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 6.30.14 >>> President Obama has picked an Army veteran and retired chief executive of Proctor & Gamble to head the embattled VA. Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit after its leader was declared caliph
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 6.28.14 >>> A scathing review of the Department of Veterans Affairs released Friday calls for a complete overhaul and warns a "corrosive culture" led veterans to have to wait longer for care. The Iraqi military and witnesses say government helicopter gunships have conducted
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 6/27.14 >>> The U.S. military began flying armed drones over Baghdad in the last 24 hours. Orion, NASA's newest manned spaceship, is being prepared for its first mission in December. In future missions, it will journey into deep space - to Mars and
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 6.25.14 >>> The U.S.-led international coalition in Afghanistan says one of its servicemembers has been killed in an attack in the country's south. Militants take Iraqi gas field town, close in on Baghdad. There is no evidence that during the five years he was
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 6.25.14 >>> Sen. Tom Coburn: 1,000 vets may have died over VA misconduct. Militants attacked one of Iraq's largest air bases and seized control of several small oilfields as U.S. military experts arrived to set up an operations centre to help Iraqi security
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A military ID gets you in. Without it, you're stuck outside the gate, watching Northwest outdoors expert after expert drive through the gate with their sports utility vehicles loaded with the latest outdoor toys. Clutching cups of scalding coffee in camouflage travel mugs and shouldering backpacks
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 6.24.14 >>> The White House announced former Staff Sgt. Ryan Pitts will receive the Medal of Honor for his combat actions during an enemy engagement in Wanat in the Waygal Valley of northeastern Afghanistan, July 13, 2008. Iraq: Residents of farming villages describe
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 6.23.14 >>> The militants' capture of Turabil late Sunday followed the fall of three more towns in Iraq's western Anbar province. U.S. advisers sent to Iraq will likely find an army so lacking that it may not be able to win back significant
