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Afghan evacuees remain at base in Kosovo for additional screening  Several hundred Afghan evacuees, some of whom were flagged for security concerns, still reside at a NATO base in Kosovo where they are being processed by U.S. personnel, multiple government officials said this week.  READ MORE >

Pentagon streamlines process for deploying National Guard in DC The Defense Department on Thursday streamlined the process for activating District of Columbia National Guard troops to assist local law enforcement by establishing a single point of contact within the Pentagon. READ MORE >

Navy rebuts recommendation to close Red Hill fuel tanks in Hawaii The Hawaii Department of Health lacks the authority to issue an emergency order to close the Red Hill fuel tank facility, the Navy maintains in a document filed Wednesday. READ MORE >   Navy fires captain and executive officer of San Diego-based combat ship USS Montgomery The Navy took the unusual step Thursday of relieving both the captain and executive officer of a San Diego-based warship, it said in a statement. READ MORE >   Omicron's New Years cocktail: Sorrow, fear but hope for 2022 Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022. READ MORE >

He was waterboarded at VMI. His tormentors still got into the military. A lawsuit highlights a controversial component of the college’s culture: its century-plus-old “rat line.” READ MORE >   Biden to speak with Ukraine president amid fears that Russia may once again invade Ukraine Following his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Joe Biden plans to speak by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday amid growing alarm over Russia’s military buildup near its border with Ukraine. READ MORE >   Militaries are among the world’s biggest emitters. This general wants them to go green. British army officer Richard Nugee said his experiences in Iraq taught him that extreme weather could be as dangerous to soldiers as any insurgent. READ MORE >   He was waterboarded at VMI. His tormentors still got into the military. A lawsuit highlights a controversial component of the college’s culture: its century-plus-old “rat line.” READ MORE >   Betty White, TV’s Golden Girl, dies at 99 Betty White, whose saucy, up-for-anything charm made her a television mainstay for more than 60 years, whether as a man-crazy TV hostess on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" or the loopy housemate on "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 99. READ MORE >   Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan In a sprawling settlement of mud brick huts in western Afghanistan housing people displaced by drought and war, a woman is fighting to save her daughter. Aziz Gul's husband sold the 10-year-old girl into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children. READ MORE >

 

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