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With Alaska In NKorean Range, Few Options For Trump

North Korea's test-firing of a missile apparently capable of reaching Alaska underlines the shrinking options for US...

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Pentagon’s Nuke-Proof ‘Doomsday’ Planes Damaged By Tornado

Two of the Pentagon's specially reinforced "Doomsday" planes, designed to withstand the heat from a nuclear blast, were...

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N. Korea Accuses US of ‘smear Campaign’ Over Warmbier Death

North Korea on Friday accused the US of waging a "smear campaign" over the death of a student who was sent back home in...

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Australia Sends Spy Planes To South Philippines

Australian military spy planes will start flying missions over the southern Philippines to help in the fight against...

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Mourners Gather For US Student Jailed By N. Korea

A long line of mourners waited to enter funeral services early Thursday for Otto Warmbier, the US student imprisoned in...

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Hundreds Gather For the Funeral of Otto Warmbier

Friends and family members are gathering in Ohio to say goodbye to an American student who just six died days after...

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Trump Lets Pentagon Set Afghanistan Troop Levels

President Donald Trump has granted the Pentagon authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan, a US official said...

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An Increasingly Isolated Trump Joins the Battle of His Life

Donald Trump has faced down a litany of scandals in his nearly 71 years, surviving bankruptcy, divorce, lawsuits and...

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N. Korea ‘disrespects’ China With Latest Missile Test

President Donald Trump on Monday called North Korea's latest missile test a slap in the face for its main ally China,...

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Afghanistan Options Expected To Hit Trump’s Desk This Week

The final proposals for a planned troop increase in Afghanistan are expected to cross President Donald Trump's desk...

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We Never Said the Armada Was On Its Way, White House Says

In a face-saving declaration, the White House on Wednesday claimed the president's comments about the carrier strike...

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Carrier That Trump Promised Would Intimidate Kim Won’t Arrive For DAYS

A U. S. aircraft carrier the Navy had said was heading toward the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions has not yet...

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Pentagon Chief To Travel Next Week To Middle East, Africa

US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is heading to the Middle East and Africa next week for a series of meetings with...

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Demands NATO Allies Pay Up

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pressed NATO allies Friday to ramp up military spending and denounced Russia's...

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Former Trump Aide Flynn Paid Over $55,000 By Russian Entities

Russian and Russia-linked entities paid President Donald Trump's former national security advisor Mike Flynn $55,500...

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Emotional Ovation As Trump Honors US Soldier’s Widow

Republican and Democratic US lawmakers had plenty to disagree over in President Donald Trump's maiden speech to...

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Cold War Redux? US-Russian Missile Spat In Europe

The United States and Russia may be on the verge of a new arms race in Europe, decades after the missile crisis that...

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Russia Deploys Missile In Apparent Treaty Violation

Moscow has deployed a cruise missile in an apparent treaty violation, a senior military official told CNN Tuesday. The...

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Trump Bringing Supreme Court Favorites To Washington

The two judges who have been considered the top finalists to be President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court...