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NATIONAL SECURITY 12:12 p.m.

Appropriations Bill Docks Pakistan $1M for Every Year Doctor Jailed

If the Senate Appropriations Committee has its way, Pakistan’s military assistance package will be docked $33 million— $1 million for every year the doctor who assisted the U.S. in tracking down Osama bin Laden sits in a Pakistani jail.

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NATIONAL SECURITY 11:36 a.m.

General Retracts Controversial Suicide Comments

In a highly unusual move, the Army's commanding general at Fort Bliss publicly retracted blunt comments about suicide that drew criticism for appearing to deride troops struggling with serious mental problems.

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HEALTH CARE 2:02 p.m.

Obesity A National Security Issue, Experts Agree

Improving school lunches and nutrition education are a key way to get Americans healthy enough to join the military, and a badly divided Congress might be amenable to cooperating on this one issue, obesity policy experts said said Wednesday.

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WHITE HOUSE May 23, 2012

Channeling Reagan, Obama Offers Robust Defense of Foreign Policy

President Obama offered a robust defense of his foreign policy on Wednesday, using an address to the graduating class of the U.S. Air Force Academy to tout the accomplishments of his first term and pledge to use a second to build “another great American century.” 

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TECHNOLOGY May 23, 2012

New Digital Government Plan Could Mean Bye-Bye BlackBerry

Official Washington is one of the last redoubts of the thumb-tapping BlackBerry user. The new Digital Government Strategy, released on Wednesday, contains hints that the BlackBerry is on the way out as federal government’s leading mobile device.

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COMMENTARY May 23, 2012

NATO Decoded: Reading Between the Lines of the Chicago Summit Declarations

NATO members held a two-day summit ending on Monday in Chicago. The following is a concluding communique and what it really means.

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CAMPAIGN 2012 May 23, 2012

Powell Has Concerns with Romney on Foreign Policy

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell had some tough words for Mitt Romney’s foreign policy positions on Wednesday, saying that calling Russia the U.S.’s No. 1 geopolitical foe was wrong.

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NATIONAL SECURITY May 23, 2012

Pakistani Doctor Who Assisted U.S. in Bin Laden Raid Gets 33 Years

 

A Pakistani doctor who assisted the U.S. in tracking down Osama bin Laden has been convicted for high treason by a Pakistani court and sentenced to 33 years in prison, the Associated Press reports.

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NATIONAL SECURITY May 23, 2012

Russia Test-Launches Missile

 

Following the announcement of enhanced NATO missile defense capabilities in Europe, Russia on Wednesday test-fired a ballistic missile, CNN reports.

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NATIONAL SECURITY May 23, 2012

Egypt Holds First Free Election

Millions of Egyptians are voting in the country's first democratic election since the ouster of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak a year and a half ago, the Associated Press reports.

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