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U.S. and Afghan officials believe that ISIS is nearing defeat following a weeks-long assault on the terror group's main bastion in eastern Afghanistan, the New York Times reports

The crash sent six Coasties and three sailors to the hospital

Vincent J. Kapoi and Roldan A. Agustin both worked at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard

"Females are now represented in every previously-restricted occupational field"

Captain Bird was also convicted for using cocaine and distributing prescription ADHD drugs

Today, Kimberly Bryant's family isn't merely surviving, they're thriving. "I wholly attribute where we are today to Comcast," she says.

Four people are dead including the gunman. Another seven people remain hospitalized, two of which are sheriff's deputies

The National Guard is not releasing any information about the status of the three people aboard the helicopter.

The Pentagon's latest statement does not rule out the possibility that the Defense Department could initially announce a smaller deployment to the region and subsequently announce that more troops are headed downrange.

Are you in search of a fresh Christmas tree but for some reason consider axes to be girly and ineffective when it comes to chopping it down? If these extremely specific circumstances apply to you, then fear not: you can absolutely blast your holiday decor free from the chains of Mother Earth

"If there is a requirement to surge, we will be ready to surge."

Carl Chandler was on the fast track to leadership in the Army, but in 2003, while deployed in Iraq as an Airborne Rifle Team Leader, he passed up a pay raise so he could stay with his soldiers

I didn't think a movie about World War I would, or even could, remind me of Afghanistan. Somehow, "1917" did, and that's probably the highest praise I can give it.

'We are out of Schlitz with regard to power ... we don't have as much' extra for additional functions"

"We have sent very clear and blunt signals to the Iranian government about the potential consequences of aggression because all of this is intended to produce stability and deter potential attacks."

The scandal, researchers found, was merely a symptom of a much larger problem.