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The pentagon is looking to shrink the army to preworld war ii level. Getting rid of a complete unit of attack jets. Lisa stark, what kind of levels are we talking about . Chuck hagel said this is the first away things will look like after years of war. The smallest since world war ii, particularly land forces. The army up to 570 tow troops in the army the president promised to end the wars in afghanistan and iraq of course and reduces to levels back to 490,000. Defense secretary hagel is talking...

Church as well as a school. It looks like the building has been evacuated. Two crane operators were hospitalized with nonlife threatening injuries. A shot a setting in at the university of maryland. Two students are dead and a third in a hospital after an earlymorning fire turned into an ambush. John gonzales has the latest. Anxiety in their hearts, these university of maryland students are walking to the house where one of their friends lived. I cannot believe it happened. Im really worried abo...

Merida Pinzon passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Lockport Union Sun Journal on 2024-04-11.

And former First Lady Rosalynn Carter died yesterday at 96.

And lawmakers tell the world that democracy in America is safe.

The Grape Day Festival brought thousands of visitors seeking to rediscover the history of Escondido's once-dominant agricultural industry.

And President Joe Biden is deemed “fit for duty.”

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Reasonable minds believe they know what happened here. if the united states does provide the solid evidence, its believed to have recovered through the intelligence, that this should move forward here >>well, i mean, i think theres is no shortage of outlandish theories on russian media. once you start putting out the theories, they have to get more and more outlandish and more and more incredible, i think, to top the last one you did. and really were seeing a test of whether the world will be se...

Process. thank you very much. that delta statement was from friday not today and we are still awaiting the white house press briefing. we could learn more about, if any, actions the administration is planning to take in the wake of the malaysian air tragedy. i want to bring in phil ewing. let me start with you gayle. british prime minister said that hes racing the prospect of further sanctions against russia. we are, again, awaiting new word from the white house here. the moment of action what...