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... are expected to ask about progress in the U.S. training of Afghan security forces. In an appearance at West Point Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told cadets in a surprisingly blunt assessment: "In my opinion, any future Defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American ...
... camps would gradually morph into shantytowns. Today in the Haitian capital, that process is well under way. Plywood, corrugated tin, beams, pieces of old iron gates ... they've been incorporated into the structures along with sheeting and tarps from international charities to make homes with a better chance of making ...
... family would be immune from prosecution on charges of corruption.The news of Yeltsin's death today came as U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was in Moscow for talks with President Putin.ROBERT GATES, Secretary of Defense: I extend my sympathies to his family and condolences to the ...
... Nemitz, a reporter with the Portland, Maine Press Herald. He is embedded with the 133rd engineer battalion of the Maine Army National Guard in Mosul. Bill Nemitz, welcome. You wrote today about an interview you had with Brig. Gen. Carter Hammond which he described an explosive device filled with pellets ...
We got to the police station. Bill Foster went to park the car, and I took her into the police station. And the rules of the road in those days were, at least for us at the Star-Telegram, if people didn't ask, we never told people who we ...
... anything else,’” said Stephen Bates, a legal expert at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who worked on the independent counsel investigation into former President Bill Clinton. If a legal battle over the report erupts between Democrats and Trump, Bates added, “this could be the real hindrance -- this rule of ...
... drive to see the outside world. There is mist and a light rain, but no sign of a single protester. All is quiet at the gates and along the brief drive through White Sulphur Springs. A cupcake shop tempts, but she returns straight away to the press center. 3:25 ...
... interviewed him for the PBS NewsHour here and here, for example, he was optimistic about technology creating enough jobs to employ future generations. When I interviewed him a few years later, he had become pessimistic and explained why. He has now written a book on the subject, "The Driver in ...
Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks to local residents at the "We the People: A First in the Nation Freedom Forum" town hall event on Oct. 1, 2011 in Hampton, N.H. Photo by Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images. Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place. Rick Perry came under fresh scrutiny...
A man waves a Libyan flag during an anti-war demonstration in front of the White House on Saturday. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama probably feels pretty good about making his big speech on Libya on a day when the lead headline in the New York Times is: "Rebels In Libya Make New Gains...
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