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Veterans: The IRS May Owe You Money, for a Change…

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On the day of President Trump’s historic meeting with Russian President Putin, the Pentagon announced that about 130,000 veterans could be eligible to receive a refund for taxes they paid on disability compensation that shouldn’t have been taxed. The veterans in question received Disability Severance Pay for combat-related injuries, or the Department of Veterans Affairs […]

No, President Is Not Purging the Military of Immigrants…

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The Department of Defense is strongly disputing a recent article by the Associated Press that suggests the United States Army has begun purging its ranks of non-U.S. citizens as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. The July 5 article centers on the plight of immigrant recruits attempting to enter […]

DHS Requests Room for Up to 20,000 Unaccompanied Minors on Military Bases…

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Up to 20,000 migrant children could be housed on U.S. military bases under a plan being considered by President Donald Trump’s administration, according to U.S. officials. The children would be unaccompanied minors who cross the border without family members, not children separated from them. The Department of Homeland Security requested the space to hold the […]

15,851 U.S. Service Members Have Died Since 2006. Here’s Why…

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Since 2006, 15,851 active-duty personnel and mobilized reservists have died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. But only 28 percent of those deaths came from going to war, a stark reminder of the danger service members face even away from the battlefield. The numbers come from a new report by the Congressional Research Service, […]

Afghan Drug Trade Thrives Despite Costly U.S. Counternarcotics Campaign…

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The drug trade in Afghanistan, which helps fund the insurgency and impedes reconstruction efforts, has grown stronger despite billions of dollars spent by the U.S. to fight it, a government watchdog said Thursday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, said in a report that the U.S. needed a new strategy to fight […]

U.S., Turkey Said to Reach Deal for Withdrawal of Kurdish Forces from Key Syrian Town…

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Turkey has announced a new agreement with the US which will involve the pullout of all Kurdish forces from the contested northern Syrian city of Manbij — something which the US State Department disputed as recently as Tuesday. But Reuters now reports, based on Turkey’s state-run Anadolu agency: Turkey and the United States have reached […]

Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks…

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Last week, while watching Benjamin Netanyahu unveil secret information that supposedly proved that Iran is deceiving the world about its nuclear-weapons program, I had a flashback. It was to February 5, 2003, when then-Secretary of State Colin Powell unveiled secret information that supposedly proved that Iraq was deceiving the world about its nuclear, chemical, and […]

REPORT: Series of ‘Deficiencies’ Led to Deadly Niger Ambush…

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The Defense Department on Thursday released its report on the investigation into the deadly Niger ambush that killed four U.S. soldiers in October 2017, and it found that a series of failures and “deficiencies” led to the event; the report did not assign individual, direct blame. Americans Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, […]

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