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Armed pro-Russian separatists clashed with Ukrainian self-defense fighters near the eastern city of Donetsk today, two days before the presidential election, and at least two people were killed.
The Kremlin's crazy shock troops.
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki issued a message to veterans defending his leadership and promising to fix delays in care that have rocked his agency and the Obama administration in recent days.
The House approved a measure that would authorize just over $600 billion in 2015 U.S. defense spending, while blocking A-10 retirement plans and ordering an independent group to study the Army's future.
The House passed legislation that tacitly approves a 1.8 percent pay raise for military service members next year, and includes a number of other pay, benefits and workforce provisions.
The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee unveiled a $514 billion defense bill that differs in several ways from the version approved by the House.
The Senate Armed Services committee wants to put $320 million saved from cutting personnel to pay for flying the A-10 another year.
The Navy has dispatched a cruiser to the Black Sea in the latest sign that Washington is ramping up pressure on the Kremlin's power play in Ukraine ahead of a disputed referendum.
The intelligence community is on the verge of "revolutionary" technical advances.
DARPA has invented a device that gives soldiers Terminator vision.
The 10 algorithms that dominate our world.
Here comes the Headfoams.
Veruca Salt played for the first time in 18 years on Conan.
Watch the big drum-off between Will Ferrell and the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith.
See a trailer for the new season of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Finally: This lengthy piece explores the history of Don and Peggy's relationship on Mad Men.
Suddenly American idol is much better ...