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Pentagon approves iPhone Apple products for military use
This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. It is the world's largest office building by floor area. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. (AFP/AFP/Getty ...
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Bicyclist Fatally Struck By Car In DC Identified
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The bicyclist who was fatally struck on Thursday by a car has been identified, police say. Andre Brands, 50, was struck by a Nissan Altima on on Thursday as he was traveling south on 11th Street, near the U Street intersection, DC police said. Brand, who was not wearing a helmet, was transported to a local hospital where he died due to his injuries, police said. The ...
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DCTC Yanks Licenses From 2 More Cabbies
Two taxicab drivers have had their licenses suspended indefinitely after they were arrested and charged with simple assault following an altercation earlier this ...
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Slave Cabin to Get Museum Home in Washington
Junior Meggett, 80, in the onetime antebellum slave cabin on Edisto Island, S.C., in which his aunt and uncle lived in the 1940s. He lived in a different but identical ...
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France gets Pentagon backing to buy U.S.-made drones paper
Le Monde newspaper said on Saturday. With its current hardware increasingly outdated, France is urgently trying to build up a modern fleet of drones for surveillance operations in countries such as Mali. Le Monde said France intended to eventually buy a total of five or seven Reapers, built by privately held General Atomics, for 300 million euros ($385 million). The French-led military ...
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National Police Week draws thousands of officers to Washington
View results WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of police officers from around the country are in Washington as part of National Police Week.Scheduled events include a conference for family members of officers who have died in the line of duty, an honor guard competition and a memorial service.The memorial service, which recognizes fallen police officers, began in 1982.Between 25,000 and 40,000 ...
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Washington vs. The People
It would be wrong to view the controversy over the IRS scandal as a typical Republican vs. Democrat squabble. The IRS is a powerful agency that can influence nearly every decision Americans make through its authority to tax and regulate. The IRS grows stronger and more powerful the more the federal government spends and borrows.Organizations and individuals who promote fiscal responsibility, ...
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Man Shot Killed in Loudoun County
Loudoun County Police say a woman shot and killed her husband Friday night in Sterling, Loudoun County, in what’s believed to have been a domestic ...
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Winning Mega Millions Ticket Sold in Virginia
A Fredericksburg couple says they're still in shock after winning a $217 million Powerball jackpot. David Honeywell bought the winning ticket at an airport kiosk in Richmond earlier this month. News4's Richard Jordan was there as the couple collected their winnings and ...
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Pentagon reports growth of sex crimes in U.S. Army
On Tuesday, the Pentagon released a report about cases of sexual crimes in the U.S. Army. According to statistics, in 2012, there were 26,000 various crimes committed, including rape, in the U.S. Army. Only 3,374 of such crimes were registered ...
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D.C. Police Investigate 3 Overnight Shootings
The second shooting happened at around 2:45 a.m. at the intersection of North Capitol and S Streets NE. Police say a person was shot in the head and was unconscious and non-responsive. The victim's age and gender were not specified. DC ...
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Zimmermann hopes to continue hot start vs. Padres
Nationals right-hander Jordan Zimmermann became the Majors' first seven-game winner on Monday. Will he become the first eight-game winner on Saturday? We'll find out when the Nationals take on the Padres at Petco Park, a place Zimmermann is 1-0 with a minuscule 0.69 ERA in two career starts. Facing the Dodgers in his last start, Zimmermann (7-1, 1.69 ERA) allowed just two runs on ...
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White House scandals could Obama lose his mojo
A tsunami of scandals threatens to distract Barack Obama from his second-term agenda as U.S. media and Republicans turn up the heat on the embattled U.S. president. "The recent rash of scandals does complicate the life of the administration. It takes them off-message and distracts from the broader narrative of an improving economy,"Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Washington-based ...
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Pentagon tells US Senate wars will continue for decades
Testifying before the US Senate Committee on Armed Services on Thursday, Pentagon officials claimed that "war on terror" legislation gives them sweeping powers to wage war anywhere in the world, including inside the United States, without Congressional authorization. Assistant Defense Secretary Michael Sheehan argued that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), ...
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Federal judge rejects lawsuit opposing Washington DC school closures
A proposed injunction to halt the closure of one in ten public schools in the District of Columbia has been denied in federal court. The injunction, part of a lawsuit filed in March by community groups and parents affected by the closures, was intended to halt the closures of the schools announced at the beginning of the year by DC education chancellor Kaya Henderson. The complaint had ...
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Organic food companies gain Washington clout
U.S. sales of organic foods reached $35 billion last year, and the ...
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Washington bouncer convicted of assault plans to appeal www.privateofficercom
– Matthew Hibbard, the Jack Didley’s bouncer convicted of assaulting Ben Ensign, said he plans to appeal his criminal conviction. Ensign was left with life-altering injuries after he was tossed out of a Kennewick nightclub. Hibbard said he couldn’t afford an attorney and asked the court to appoint one for him. His previous attorney will remain as Hibbard’s council for ...
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National Briefing | Washington Subpoena for Head of Benghazi Panel
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Friday issued a subpoena to the chairman of the independent panel that investigated the attacks last year on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The ...
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Neighbors Dispute Turns Deadly in Waldorf
Jessica Nicole Stith, 25, a mother of two, was outside in the townhome complex on Oak Manor Drive at around 11 p.m. She was talking with a neighbor when they got into a disagreement, other neighbors told News4's Shomari ...
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Prosecutors Man Promoted Human Trafficking In Video
Montgomery County prosecutors have charged a Nevada man with bringing women cross-country and selling them for sex. News4's Erika Gonzalez has an exclusive ...
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