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A U.S. soldier sits on an armored vehicle behind a sand barrier at a newly installed position near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted a U.S. flag on a hill a little ways back from a tense front line in Syria. Now on Wednesday stood a growing outpost with a perimeter of large sand barriers and barbed wire, a new watch tower and half a dozen armored vehicles, The Associated Press found. (Hussein Malla/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

White House says Syria mission coming to ‘a rapid end’

There were clear signs the United States was narrowing its mission in Syria.

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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, center, arrives for a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Radio Times

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Turmoil at Veterans Affairs

Guest: Leo Shane There’s been some turmoil at the Department of Veterans Affairs. David Shulkin, VA Secretary a ...

Air Date: April 2, 2018 10:20 am

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This Feb. 10, 2009 file photo shows some of the more than 1,100 old fuses and small anti-aircraft shells that have been found as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers searches for any remaining World War I era munitions along the Atlantic Ocean in Surf City, N.J. A century after World War I ended, munitions from that and other wars continue to surface on beaches around the United States, usually during beach replenishment projects when they are sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore onto the sand, or exposed by strong storms. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, File)

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A century after WWI, munitions still making way onto beaches

Items ranging from tiny fuses to full-scale mines are displaced by beach replenishment projects, sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore, or by strong storms.

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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin testifies before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Sept. 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

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Politics & Policy

Fired VA Secretary says White House muzzled him

Fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin tells NPR that political forces in the Trump administration want to privatize the VA — and he was standing in the way.

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From right to left: Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Gina Hapsel (credit: AP)

Radio Times

Politics & Policy

Trump taps new foreign policy team

Guests: Matthew Kroenig, Mitchell Plitnick President Trump has been shaking up his cabinet in recent weeks, and t ...

Air Date: March 29, 2018 10:00 am

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The Bastille Day festivities in Paris last summer gave President Trump the inspiration to call for a military parade in Washington. But the Pentagon says there will be no tanks in its parade in November. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

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Politics & Policy

Trump’s military parade is set for Veterans Day

The Pentagon says a military parade requested by President Trump will take place in Washington on Veterans Day.

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A Navy fighter jet comes in for a landing on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea. (Anthony Kuhn/NPR)

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Politics & Policy

The U.S. positions warships in tense Asia-Pacific waters

The Navy now has two fleets in the Western Pacific, as the United States shifts its priorities away from the Middle East to potential flashpoints in the Asia Pacific.

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Radio Times

Politics & Policy

Steve Coll on the Afghanistan War and Directorate S

Guest: Steve Coll Afghanistan’s president Ashraf Ghani wants to talk peace with Taliban. He’s offered to forgive their war cri ...

Air Date: March 5, 2018 12:00 am

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In this Sept. 11, 2015 file photo, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, (left), U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, (center), and Anthony Sadler attend a parade held in their honor in Sacramento, Calif. The wait is almost over to see Roseburg, Ore., hero Skarlatos on the big screen in

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Pa. writer penned Clint Eastwood’s ‘The 15:17 to Paris’

In the spring of 2015, Dorothy Blyskal had quit her corporate job and was writing Facebook posts begging for an entry-level position in show business.

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Radio Times

Politics & Policy

Syria’s continuing crisis

Guests: Liz Sly, Mona Yacoubian, Andrew Tabler Although ISIS has been largely defeated in Syria, the seven ...

Air Date: February 23, 2018

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(From left) FBI Director Christopher Wray, accompanied by CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley, National Security Agency Director Adm. Michael Rogers, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo, speaks at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on worldwide threats, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

U.S. intel sees signs of Russian meddling in midterms

Three of the nation's top intelligence officials confirmed Tuesday that they have seen evidence of Russian meddling in the upcoming midterm elections.

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The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a hearing on worldwide threats on Tuesday. (Liam James Doyle/NPR)

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Intelligence leaders testify about global threats in Senate hearing

The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a hearing on worldwide threats.

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John Millan, (left), a 17-year member of the Washington Army National Guard who was diagnosed with PTSD in 2005 after serving in Iraq, talks with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, (right), deputy chief of staff, G-1, as Col. Mike Miller, (center), looks on, following a field hearing of the U.S. Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, Wednesday, April 4, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)

Health

Short-term PTSD treatment provides relief for half in Penn study at Texas army base

About eight percent of Americans will contend with post-traumatic stress disorder at some point in their lives; for military veterans, the incidence is much higher.

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