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Once Public Record, Pentagon Makes Nuclear Base Inspection Results Secret

‘Pass-fail’ grades declared off-limits, which the Pentagon says is to prevent adversaries from learning too much about nuclear weapons vulnerabilities.

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Nuclear Dysfunction

The Pentagon has thrown a cloak of secrecy over assessments of the safety and security of its nuclear weapons operations, a part of the military with a history of periodic inspection failures and bouts of low morale. Overall results of routine inspections at nuclear weapons bases, such as a “pass-fail” grade, had previously been publicly

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Wall Street Journal Fires Chief Correspondent Over Links To CIA Arms Dealer

The Wall Street Journal insists Solomon forfeited their trust and that they were dismayed by his “poor judgement.”

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Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon is interview on the C-SPAN program Washington Journal on Sept. 23, 2014 in Washington.

WASHINGTON — The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday fired its highly regarded chief foreign affairs correspondent after evidence emerged of his involvement in prospective commercial deals — including one involving arms sales to foreign governments — with an international businessman who was one of his key sources. The reporter, Jay Solomon, was

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Poll: Most Americans Agree With Court’s Block Of Trump’s ‘Travel Ban’

50 percent of people who responded to the poll said they think a desire to prevent Muslims from entering the country was a major reason for the ban, while 20 percent said it was a minor reason.

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Miles Treakle, left, of Seattle, holds a sign that reads "Refugees Welcome Ban Trump," as he protests against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, May 15, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

WASHINGTON — Most Americans say federal courts are acting properly in blocking President Donald Trump's travel ban, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Two versions of the travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries have been put on hold by federal courts. Trump says the ban is necessary to

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UN: Budget Shortfall Threatens Aid To Syria’s 6 Million At-Risk Children

Nearly 6 million children are in need in Syria and another 2.5 million require assistance in neighboring countries, according to UNICEF.

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Syrian children buy vegetables at the town of Madaya in the Damascus countryside, Syria, May 18, 2017. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

The U.N. children's agency warned Friday that a critical funding shortfall is threatening aid to 9 million Syrian children, both in their country and among the refugees in neighboring states. UNICEF said the $220 million budget gap to its Syria relief programs is the worst it has faced since the start of the conflict, in 2011. It appealed for

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Russia: US Coalition Providing Safe Corridors For ISIS To Flee Raqqa

The Russian military claims it has struck several ISIS convoys as they left the city besieged by U.S. and allied rebel forces.

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MOSCOW  — The Russian military has accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria of providing safe corridors for the Islamic State group to leave the area around its stronghold of Raqqa. Col. Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the commander of Russian forces in Syria, said earlier this month that IS has made a deal with the Kurdish forces to leave two villages

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Trump Claims Credit For Saudi, Qatar Rift

Trump’s harsh words for the Qataris were a departure from his rhetoric during his visit to Saudi Arabia, when he met with Qatar’s emir and called the relationship “extremely good.”

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President Donald Trump, right, holds a meeting with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)

 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sided with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries Tuesday in a deepening diplomatic crisis with Qatar, appearing to endorse the accusation that the oil-rich Persian Gulf nation is funding terrorist groups. Trump, in a series of early-morning tweets, sought to cast the rift between Qatar and its neighbors

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Terrorist Attack On Kabul Diplomatic Zone Leaves 80 Dead, Scores Wounded

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, though both the Taliban and the ISIS have staged large-scale attacks in the Afghan capital in the past.

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Security forces inspect near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 31, 2017. A massive explosion rocked a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, causing casualties and sending a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

KABUL, Afghanistan — A massive suicide truck bombing rocked a highly secure diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing 80 people and wounding as many as 350, an attack that left a scene of mayhem and destruction and sent a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital. The target of the explosion in the Wazir Akbar Khan area was not

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