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A five-member Taliban team was in Kabul on Thursday to follow up on this week’s prisoner release by the Afghan government that saw hundreds of insurgents freed. It was the single largest such release since a U.S.-Taliban deal earlier this year spelling an exchange of detainees between the warring sides.
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The Pentagon has spent less than a quarter of the $10.6 billion Congress gave it in March to protect military personnel and marshal American industry to procure face masks, ventilators and other products hospitals need in their fight against the coronavirus.
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The coronavirus pandemic might've permanently changed the way the military molds new recruits.
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VA Secretary Robert Wilkie described the department response so far to the virus as a great success.
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The move extends the deployments from 89 days to more than 120.
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New support for an Indo-Pacific Deterrence Initiative suggests it's a lock for the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act.
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Swastikas on at least three headstones at two cemeteries have stirred controversy in recent weeks.
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The legislation would tie the 2021 Social Security COLA to veterans benefits increases.
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As the services begin to test troops for COVID-19 antibodies, they're asking for volunteers to donate plasma for treatment of their fellow service members.
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that as the U.S. military prepares for another potential wave of the coronavirus, it may do things a bit differently, providing more targeted aid for cities and states and possibly shorter quarantine times for troops.
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Former Texas Rep. Sam Johnson, a military pilot who spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before serving more than two decades in Congress, died Wednesday at age 89.