Articles by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro
A pair of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers have been dispatched by the Air Force to join three B-52s at the Royal Air Force Base Fairford, in the wake of Russia doubling its number of long range strategic bomber flights along the U.S. coastline and cruising over NATO ally airspace.
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June 9, 2015
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The number of long-range Russian strategic bomber flights that buzzed U.S. airspace doubled last year from their norm, forcing American jets to frequently scramble and capturing the attention of hawks in Congress who believe the Kremlin is sending a veiled warning to President Obama to keep out of its affairs in Ukraine.
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June 7, 2015
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The Persian Gulf kingdom of Qatar has temporarily extended a travel ban on five former Guantanamo Bay detainees who were released last year in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
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May 31, 2015
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The one-year travel ban imposed on five freed Guantanamo detainees, who last year were exchanged for captured U.S. Army Sgt. Robert 'Bowe' Bergdahl, expires May 31, giving the ex-Taliban fighters the right to leave Qatar and return to Afghanistan or elsewhere.
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May 30, 2015
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Martin Luther King III is on a mission to revive his late father's 1968 anti-poverty campaign in hopes to quell unrest in places like Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri — and he's taking his message straight to the White House and all of the 2016 presidential contenders.
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May 24, 2015
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The Teamsters have begun informing retirees and current workers that their pension benefits may soon be cut, the final ironic twist to a lobbying campaign that saw the union spend its own members' dollars to win the right to shrink their retirement pay.
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May 20, 2015
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Former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber was told in early 2014 that the Obamacare state health care exchange his administration spent $305 million building could be made operational. But his administration chose instead to scrap the project and seek a scapegoat to keep the fiasco from harming his re-election, according to evidence turned over to congressional investigators.
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May 18, 2015
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Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore City State Attorney in charge of prosecuting six police officers for the death of Freddie Gray, Jr., is coming under increasing criticism from defense attorneys and legal scholars who think she is politicizing the case and using her prosecutorial power to create her own celebrity.
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May 11, 2015
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Oscar winner Natalie Portman apparently thinks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a racist -- or at least talks like one.
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May 7, 2015
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New satellite images reveal that China is building an airstrip for its military on a manmade island in a hotly contested maritime area, a move that raised alarm bells for U.S. officials and for U.S. allies in the region.
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April 17, 2015
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Mariel Hemingway was only 6 years old when she learned how to mix cocktails and pour wine as a survival mechanism to keep her parents from arguing. In two new autobiographies, the California native and granddaughter of novelist Ernest Hemingway says she spent her childhood carefully navigating through a "minefield" of alcoholism, arguing, drug addiction, mental illness and suicide.
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April 13, 2015
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There will be no repercussions for the investigative reporter or editors responsible for a now-retracted Rolling Stone cover story in November that falsely accused Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members at the University of Virginia of gang-raping a freshman coed.
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April 5, 2015
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Most Jewish-Americans support Mr. Obama because he is a Democrat and they erroneously believe he is like other Democrats before him like John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.
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March 29, 2015
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A nearly eight-year ordeal for American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito came to a stunning end Friday as Italy's highest court reversed the pair's convictions from an appellate court, effectively finding them both innocent of murder.
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March 27, 2015
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Authorities have suspended their investigation of an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, saying they could find no evidence of the incident that was first reported in stark detail in Rolling Stone magazine in November.
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March 23, 2015
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SpaceX asked the House Armed Services Committee during a Tuesday hearing to stop giving their competitor what they say amounts to an unfair advantage in competing for national security satellite launch contracts.
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March 17, 2015
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White House officials emphatically denied Monday a report that senior White House aide Valerie Jarrett had ordered the State Department to launch a series of probes into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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March 15, 2015
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One of Bill Cosby's accusers and her attorney, renowned sexual assault and employment lawyer Gloria Allred, will testify Friday morning before the Nevada State Assembly in support of legislation that would eliminate statutes of limitation for rape crimes in the state.
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March 12, 2015
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Throughout their time in the spotlight, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been dogged by questions about a blurred line between political fundraising and official actions. From Buddhist monks, White House coffees and the Lincoln Bedroom to fundraising bundlers and Whitewater investment partners who went to prison, the questions have persisted for two decades.
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March 10, 2015
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The Second Amendment Foundation will launch a nationwide TV and radio campaign Monday aimed at exposing legal holes in President Obama's executive actions to ban ammunition commonly used in AR-15 sport utility rifles.
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March 8, 2015
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