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Why the Air Force grounded most if its workhorse C-130H cargo planes

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By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

The Air Force is unable to fly 116 of its 128 C-130H cargo planes due to issues with how the propellers on the craft were assembled, Air Mobility Command confirmed Friday.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, accompanied by Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa., speaks in Philadelphia, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ryan Collerd)

Close races, deluge of mail-in ballots could delay election results in some critical races

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Eduardo Tocuya carries a dog he recovered in hopes of reuniting it with its owners, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Dozens dead from Ian, one of strongest, costliest U.S. storms

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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks before signing legislation establishing the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. The CARE program allows family members, first responders and others to ask a judge to draw up a treatment plan for someone diagnosed with certain disorders, including schizophrenia. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group via AP)

Newsom’s pro-choice billboards citing Bible verse draw rebukes from religious leaders

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This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020, by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, Venezuela freed seven Americans, including five oil executives imprisoned for nearly five years, in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro's wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

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Russell M. Nelson, 98, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, decried sexual abuse in an Oct. 1 address broadcast globally from the group's Salt Lake City headquarters. His using a chair behind the podium generated an instant comment from the group. (Photo copyright (c) 2022 Intellectual Reserve, Inc., used with permission.)

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A 19-year old Hazara Afghan girl sits and cries on the bench she was sitting on, during Friday's suicide bomber attack on a Hazara education center, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Afghanistan's Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims, have been the target of a brutal campaign of violence for the past several years. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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The U.S. border fence separates Nogales, Mexico, right, from sister city Nogales, Arizona, left, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. Dozens of asylum seekers pushed back into Mexico by the United States tried Friday to get their bearings still unsure of how they would travel some 350 miles to their court dates in El Paso, subsist for months in this unfamiliar border city or return to their distant homelands. (AP Photo/Luis Enrique Castillo)

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Former President Jimmy Carter reacts as his wife Rosalynn Carter speaks during a reception to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Plains, Ga.. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File)

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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks before signing legislation establishing the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, in San Jose, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. The CARE program allows family members, first responders and others to ask a judge to draw up a treatment plan for someone diagnosed with certain disorders, including schizophrenia. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group via AP)

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In this June 16, 2016, photo, Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Mark Pocan, Democratic lawmaker, seeks to build an LGBT museum in Washington

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President Joe Biden responds to a question about Russia during a reception to celebrate the Jewish new year in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Vice President Kamala Harris listens at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden and Harris to deliver remarks on race, democracy at Congressional Black Caucus dinner

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Sun shines on the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden signs bill to avert government shutdown, aid Ukraine

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President Joe Biden speaks during a reception to celebrate the Jewish new year in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff stand at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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President Joe Biden greets people after speaking during a Democratic National Committee event at the National Education Association Headquarters, Sept. 23, 2022, in Washington. Biden is picking up the pace of his high-dollar fundraisers for party candidates and committees in the last stretch ahead of the midterms. The receptions have been one of the most visible ways Biden has been deployed this political season at a time when his approval ratings remain underwater and many Democrats aren’t eager to campaign with him. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Supporters of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott watch his debate with Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, accompanied by Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa., speaks in Philadelphia, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Ryan Collerd)

Close races, deluge of mail-in ballots could delay election results in some critical races

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is welcomed to the stage by Maine Gov. Paul LePage at campaign stop in Portland, Maine, in this March 3, 2016 file photo. LePage, who moved to Florida after his second term, has returned to Maine to challenge Democratic Gov. Janet Mills. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, left, stands with his lieutenant governor pick Alison Esposito, right, after speaking to delegates and assembled party officials at the 2022 NYGOP Convention, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Garden City, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

More officers walking off job, running for office to push back against defund-police movement

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers take a knee with demonstrators, as they march on Pennsylvania Avenue, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in Washington, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

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Web pages used to show information for collecting unemployment insurance in Virginia, right, and reporting fraud and identity theft in Pennsylvania, are displayed on the respective state web pages, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, in Zelienople, Pa. Massive fraud in the nation's unemployment system is raising alarms even as President Joe Biden and Congress prepare to pour hundreds of billions more into expanded benefits for those left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

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Taiwanese soldiers operate a Oerlikon 35mm twin cannon anti-aircraft gun at a base in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

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Brandt Van Sickle, homelessness liaison for the City of Aurora, Colo., looks for unsheltered and houseless individuals on Jan. 25, 2022, in Aurora, Colo. (Olivia Sun/The Colorado Sun via AP)

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Eduardo Tocuya carries a dog he recovered in hopes of reuniting it with its owners, two days after the passage of Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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In this May 17, 2022, photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Anna Rose Layden/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Metaverse company’s funding becomes proxy for U.S.-China tech fight

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Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017. In his trial in the violent Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, attorneys for the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group will mount an unusual defense with former President Donald Trump at its center. Defense attorneys are poised to argue that Rhodes can’t be found guilty of seditious conspiracy because everything he did was in preparation for orders he anticipated coming down from the Republican president. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Fayez Damdoum in the West Bank village of Azariyah, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Israel's paramilitary border police said forces shot a protester who attempted to throw a firebomb at them as they came to disperse a demonstration. It said demonstrators threw stones and explosives at them. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the dead youth as 18-year-old Fayez Damdoum. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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In this image from video broadcast by RTB state television, coup spokesman Capt. Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho reads a statement in a studio in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso, on Friday evening, Sept. 30, 2022. Members of Burkina Faso's army seized control of state television late Friday, declaring that the country's coup leader-turned-president, Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, had been overthrown after only nine months in power. The statement announced that Capt. Ibrahim Traore is the new military leader of Burkina Faso, a volatile West African country that is battling a mounting Islamic insurgency. (RTB via AP)

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This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020, by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives Jose Angel Pereira, from left to right, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. On Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022, Venezuela freed seven Americans, including five oil executives imprisoned for nearly five years, in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro's wife who had been jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP File)

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People walk toward the border crossing between Georgia and Russia at Verkhny Lars, as they leave Chmi, North Ossetia–Alania Republic, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. Long lines of vehicles have formed at a border crossing between Russia's North Ossetia region and Georgia after Moscow announced a partial military mobilization. (AP Photo)

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Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais, right, celebrates in the clubhouse after the team's baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Seattle. The Mariners won 2-1 to clinch a spot in the playoffs. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

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Maryland running back Colby McDonald (23) rushes against Rutgers during the first half of an NCAA football game, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021, in Piscataway, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Maryland dusts off retro ‘script’ uniforms, helmets

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Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett (95) walks on the field during an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Sept. 22, 2022, in Cleveland. Garrett was released from a hospital late Monday, Sept. 26, after he was injured when he rolled over his Porsche while driving on a rural road following practice. (AP Photo/David Richard, File)

Browns star Garrett not playing vs Falcons after car wreck

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Philadelphia Phillies' Rhys Hoskins, right, celebrates his home run with Nick Castellanos (8) during the first inning in the first baseball game of a doubleheader against the Washington Nationals, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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A 19-year old Hazara Afghan girl sits and cries on the bench she was sitting on, during Friday's suicide bomber attack on a Hazara education center, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Afghanistan's Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims, have been the target of a brutal campaign of violence for the past several years. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

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The U.S. border fence separates Nogales, Mexico, right, from sister city Nogales, Arizona, left, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. Dozens of asylum seekers pushed back into Mexico by the United States tried Friday to get their bearings still unsure of how they would travel some 350 miles to their court dates in El Paso, subsist for months in this unfamiliar border city or return to their distant homelands. (AP Photo/Luis Enrique Castillo)

Brothers charged with manslaughter after migrant killed in western Texas

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In this aerial photo made in a flight provided by mediccorps.org, damage from Hurricane Ian is seen on the causeway leading to Sanibel Island from Fort Myers, Fla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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US Navy sailor Ryan Sawyer Mays walks past reporters at Naval Base San Diego before entering a Navy courtroom, Aug. 17, 2022, in San Diego. No one disputes that the Navy shares blame for the loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, the $1.2 billion amphibious assault ship that was consumed by flames in San Diego in July 2020 as officers failed to respond quickly and its crew struggled with broken equipment. But none of that would not have happened, according to prosecution closing arguments, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, without Ryan Sawyer Mays. (AP Photo/Julie Watson, File)

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Students in the new Army prep course stand at attention after physical training exercises at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C., Aug. 27, 2022. The Army fell about 15,000 soldiers — or 25% — short of its recruitment goal this year, officials confirmed Friday, Sept. 30, despite a frantic effort to make up the widely expected gap in a year when all the military services struggled in a tight jobs market to find young people willing and fit to enlist. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford, File)

U.S. Army misses recruiting goal; other services squeak by

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This handout photo taken from video and released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Aug. 7, 2022, shows a general view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s nuclear power provider says Russian forces blindfolded and detained the head of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant hours after Moscow illegally annexed a swath of Ukrainian territory. In a possible attempt to secure Moscow’s hold on the newly annexed territory, Russian forces seized the director-general of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ihor Murashov, around 4 p.m. Friday. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

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Jennifer Quinn fills her SUV at a gas station Monday, March 7, 2022, in Needham, Mass. The average price of regular gasoline nationwide is up slightly Wednesday, Sept. 21, from a day earlier, the first time prices have climbed in 99 days. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ** FILE **

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