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  • Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas. (Associated Press)

    Judge denies trial delay for Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan

    A military judge on Tuesday refused a three-month trial delay for the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage.

  • Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 attack at Fort Hood, Texas. (Associated Press)

    Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan could win another trial delay

    Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 in a Fort Hood shooting rampage in 2009, could get yet another trial delay. The judge will rule Tuesday on his request for more time to prepare his case.

  • PRICE: Readying outpost in Djibouti for 'rapid response'

    On May 30, Army Brig. Gen. Kimberly Field announced the formation of a new "rapid response force" to be established at Camp Lemonnier in the East African nation of Djibouti.

  • **FILE** This undated photo shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage. (Associated Press/Bell County Sheriff's Department via The Temple Daily Telegram)

    Judge bans Fort Hood suspect's 'protecting Taliban' defense strategy

    A uniformed Army psychiatrist had no justification for gunning down U.S. troops and won't be allowed to tell jurors that he was protecting Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, a military judge ruled Friday, appearing to clear the way for the Fort Hood murder trial to begin.

  • ** FILE ** In this Jan. 17, 2013, photo provided by U.S. Army Pacific, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Roger Mathews, left, and Australian Defence Forces Maj. Gen. Richard Burr salute during a ceremony welcoming Burr to Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Burr's unprecedented appointment to be deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Pacific is the first time a non-American has served in such a high-ranking position at a command like this. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Pacific, Angela Kershner)

    Australian army chief orders sexist soldiers to quit

    Lt. Gen. David Morrison, the head of Australia's army, had a blunt statement for misogynist soldiers on Friday: Control your behaviors or quit.

  • In this May 22, 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc, photographed in Lauderdale, Minn. prior to a visit to Minnesota from Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in early June of 1990. Karkoc a top commander whose Nazi SS-led unit is blamed for burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff)

    Nazi commander discovered living in Minnesota

    A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.

  • Snowden

    Inside the Ring: Summit shortcomings

    Last weekend's summit between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping fell short on three key outcomes, according to U.S. officials familiar with organizational efforts behind the meeting.

  • Deterioration of the military

    For the peace-loving, law-abiding citizen who follows the docile path of political correctness, the law of unintended consequences may prove to be his downfall. The U.S. Army has recently announced sexual-assault cases have reached a record high. With a greater number of women in the Army, one would naturally expect a greater number of cases, but unfortunately, the percentage of women being assaulted is also at a record high. There is no correlation, we are told, between this number and the expansion of roles women may fill in the Army (combat, infantry, etc.)

  • Marines carry a wounded comrade to a waiting helicopter after an improvised explosive device detonated near their armored vehicle in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

    Exposure of Indiana fertilizer plant opens general's talks with Pakistan on Taliban IEDs

    The Army general who commanded the war against homemade bombs that have killed and maimed thousands of Americans in Afghanistan has left the Pentagon knowing he scored a major victory.

  • **FILE** Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Government in the shadows

    Richard Windsor was a model employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He was so beloved by his colleagues that the agency awarded him the title "scholar of ethical behavior," and bestowed several cybersecurity certifications on him.

  • **FILE** This undated photo shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage. (Associated Press/Bell County Sheriff's Department via The Temple Daily Telegram)

    Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan: I was protecting the Taliban

    The Army psychiatrist on trial for killing 13 people in a mass shooting on Fort Hood in 2009 said during testimony Tuesday that he thought he was protecting Taliban leadership in Afghanistan from the U.S. military.

  • Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, California Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has included in the defense budget an order for the Army to consider ready-made systems for processing battlefield data.
(Associated Press)

    Congress gives an order to Army on battlefield processor

    Congress is set to intervene for the first time in how the Army is developing its prized battlefield intelligence processor, which soldiers and the Pentagon's top operational tester have deemed ineffective.

  • Illustration by William Brown

    BEIRNE: When to pull the trigger — and when not to

    Are drones coming home to roost? Last week, President Obama announced his administration's counterterrorism policy. The question is, will this policy defend our liberties - or destroy them?

  • A U.S. Special Operations Forces service member along with 3rd Bataillon d'Intervention Rapide or Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) soldiers demonstrate the proper way to pass hallways and intersections during Close Quarter Battle training during Exercise Silent Warrior 2013 in Bamenda, Cameroon Jan. 17, 2013. (Image: Africom.mil, Air Force Master Sgt. Larry W. Carpenter Jr.)

    Army sets up response team in East Africa months after Benghazi attack

    The Army now has a rapid response force in East Africa in case of another terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Army' deputy director of strategy, plans and policy said Thursday.

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