NPR

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López Rivera had been in custody since 1981. He was imprisoned over his connection with a militant group that fought for Puerto Rican independence and claimed responsibility for dozens of bombings.

Woodcraft Magazine

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Woodcraft’s 17th annual “Turn for Troops National Turn-a-Thon” brought in more than 13,000 pens to be distributed to U.S. military personnel deployed overseas. This year’s haul means that more than 200,000 pens have been donated to troops throughout

The Field

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The Phoney War was a confusing time for the British Army, spent waiting aimlessly in trenches on France’s eastern marches. One theatre of early World War Two that was decidedly active, however, was the Russo-Finish War. In one of history’s great Davi

This Week in Asia

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Pro-Islamic State (Isis) activity and support for it in Indonesia declined last year, but authorities should not rest easy as militant groups are splintering to produce small "pop up" terror cells that aim to conduct jihad operations, a Jakarta-based

MoneyWeek

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Military analysts in the West thought that invading Russian forces could overrun the capital of Ukraine in a matter of days, says Brian Michael Jenkins. More than a month after the invasion, Kyiv stands. What did the analysts miss? Military experts b

Sunday Independent

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Violence is still raging in vast swathes of South Sudan a year after a peace deal was signed to end a civil war that began in 2013, a United Nations report said on Friday. ■

Global Voices

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Oscar López Rivera. Image circulated widely via social media. Oscar López Rivera's sentence has been commuted by US President Barack Obama. He is Puerto Rico's longest-held political prisoner. The news first broke on social media on the afternoon of

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - SWAT officers on Tuesday evening swarmed a Riverside elementary school classroom and shot a parent who had taken a teacher hostage, ending an hourslong standoff. The parent, identified as Luvelle Kennon, 27, of Riverside died later at a

History of War

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Taken: 12 September 1961 Major general E.J.H Bates, director of the Royal Artillery, supervises a crew preparing a Thunderbird guided missile at Horseshoe Barracks, Essex, for departure to Germany. The missile was deployed to support the British Army

Wild West

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On Jan. 14, 1858, in what became known as the Orsini affair, four exiles from the Italian wars of independence threw improvised explosive devices at the French royal carriage as Napoléon III and Empress Eugénie were en route to the Paris Opera. The b

NPR

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The country's interior minister said the attack was carried out by an "Islamist terrorist" who was shot dead by police after a rampage through central Vienna.

Manhattan Institute

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New York’s city council is winding down its term, and Melissa Mark-Viverito’s speakership will end with it. At her final press conference yesterday, she displayed her usual peremptory attitude, snapping at a fellow council member to shut a window bec

NPR

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NPR has obtained details of the report, to be released Thursday, on the deaths of four American soldiers in Niger last October. The report identifies no single failure leading to their deaths.

History of War

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Reckoning that America would not have the resolve to wage a protracted and bloody war thousands of miles from home, Japan took a huge gamble by launching its surprise aerial attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. However, the plan was not without

NPR

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Police say nearly 60 people have been injured in what is being treated as a terrorist incident. Witnesses reported frantic efforts by concertgoers to flee after the blast at an Ariana Grande show.

Futurity

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On December 19, 2018, President Trump announced he wants to pull troops out of Syria because the United States military had achieved its goal of defeating the Islamic State militant group there. In this Q&A, terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw, a senior

Beijing Review

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People gather in Buenos Aires on November 26 to pay final respects to soccer icon Diego Maradona. Maradona, regarded as the top footballer of the 1980s and one of the all-time soccer greats, died at the age of 60 of cardiac complications A televised

NPR

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Officials claim to have dismantled the jihadi cell responsible for the vehicle attacks that killed 14 people, but say they are continuing a manhunt for three suspects still at large.

NPR

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Police were serving a search warrant on a house where residents were suspected of selling heroin. Two suspects were found dead after a gun fight.

Chicago Tribune

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CHICAGO - A man and a pregnant woman were shot to death Friday on the Far South Side, but doctors were able to save the baby, Chicago police said. The baby was listed in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to p

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - A parent has taken a teacher hostage and is barricaded inside Castle View Elementary School in Riverside, school district officials said Tuesday. The district was notified about the situation just after 11:20 a.m., Riverside Unified spo

The Atlantic

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The president loves splashy displays of military might. But when something goes wrong, he blames his generals.

History Revealed

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Described in his 1985 obituary in the New York Times as a “tall, slender man with a voluminous memory, a combative spirit and an intense interest in the people and events that shaped his times”, Ralph Ingersoll turned 41 on the day America declared w

New Zealand Listener

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There’s a nerdy game we used to play here. Some of my fellow players were horror-movie fans, others were ecological activists worried environmental collapse was nigh. We would ask one another, if the apocalypse – zombie or otherwise – happened tomorr

NPR

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The shots set off a panicked stampede at a gathering to honor the NBA champs. None of the injuries was life threatening and police quickly apprehended three suspects.

NPR

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A shooting in what police say was a packed nightclub in Cincinnati has left 15 people wounded, one of them fatally.

Banknote Reporter

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The title of this 112 x 75mm. card is Canadian Concentration Camp, Witley, and it is dated June 1, 1919. A number of aspects of this piece puzzled me for a long time. Where were any Canadian concentration camps set up right after the end of World War

Sunday Independent

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AUSTRALIAN police announced on Friday that two men had been charged with allegedly running a “terrorist network”, which helped locals to travel to Syria to join violent extremist groups. The men, aged 34 and 31, were arrested in the states of Queensl

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - A campus safety officer shot and wounded a coyote Wednesday evening at Cal State Los Angeles shortly after the animal bit a small boy, officials said. The attack was reported about 6:40 p.m. near a grassy area in a central part of campu

Newsweek International

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9/11 “We always thought we were safe. We were wrong,” Newsweek proclaimed after the devastating attacks, when terrorists hijacked four airplanes, destroying the Twin Towers and killing nearly 3,000 Americans in 2001. “In a matter of hours, the effect