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A pair of back-to-back bombs ripped through an outdoor market northeast of Baghdad today, killing at least 17 people and wounding 42.
Negotiators from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have arrived in Ukraine to try and win the release of an international observer team that has been held hostage by separatist forces in the town of Slavyansk in the eastern Ukraine since April 25.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu assured Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel during a phone call yesterday that Russian forces would not invade Ukraine, according to the Pentagon.
The U.S. will focus on economic sanctions against Russia and put Ukraine's pleas for U.S. weaponry on the backburner.
North Korea conducted live-fire artillery drills near its disputed western sea boundary today.
How will the Ukraine crisis affect the defense budget? The more US Reps. Mac Thornberry of Texas and Rick Larsen of Washington state spoke yesterday, the more clear it became just how far apart the former's Republican Party and the latter's Democratic Party stand on national security issues.
While Obama scored points with skeptical Asian allies simply by showing up, not everything followed the White House plan.
Foreign Policy: From bad to none.
U.S. Special Operations Command issued a formal request for "Advancement of Technologies in Equipment for Use by U.S. Special Operations Forces."
The mystery jets that were spotted over Amarillo, Texas, and Wichita, Kan. earlier this year are in fact Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bombers on a training sortie.
Army increases in-flight situational awareness for rapid response forces.
Marine dirt bike "gangs" of Afghanistan.
The U.S. Navy announced a record $17.645 billion contract to build 10 new SSN 774 Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines.
Defense Department CIO Teri Takai is set to step down in the coming days.
Report backs The New York Times op-ed piece linking vets to hate groups.
Amazing timelapse of massive 7-ft long Lego Serenity spaceship.
This bastard kills more humans than all the deadliest animals combines.
A 3,500-year-old NYC monument is being cleaned with freaking lasers.
Craig Ferguson is leaving The Late Late Show.
The Daily Show just hired a new correspondent.
Showtime put the premiere of its new monster-themed series, Penny Dreadful, on YouTube.
If Jedis from Star Wars fought wizards from Harry Potter, who wins?
Finally: Check out a comprehensive list of all of Don Draper's clients on Mad Men.
It's a looking glass into the past...