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• U.S. lurches into new budget crisis, spending cuts imminent
• Sequestration Anxiety? War Costs Could Have Paid for all Those Cuts
• GI's WikiLeaks admission energizes his supporters
• Turkish PM's Zionism comments "objectionable": Kerry
• 10 Years Since Iraq: My Personal Account
• Judge: France's terror risk grows with Mali effort
• Probe of Wisconsin governor's former aides closed without charges
• First Person: What Americans Can Do to Support the Troops, 10 Years After Iraq
• Iraqi Sunni official announces resignation
• Calling All Dogs! Nominations Now Being Accepted For The 2013 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards™
• ShelterBox first to distribute tents in Lebanon
• Iraqi divers retrieve bodies after boat accident
• Lebanon erects string of watchtowers on Syrian border
• Iraqi finance minister tells protesters he is resigning
• Caro wins National Book Critics Circle bio prize
• Scud missile fired in Syria lands near Iraqi village: mayor
• Three New Partners Join Fluet Huber + Hoang to Help The Good Guys
• Spending cuts due to ground Navy's Blue Angels flying team
• The Iraq War, Nearly 10 Years Later
• Army GI says he leaked secrets to spark war debate
• Blasts at Iraqi market kill 5 south of Baghdad
• 10 things you need to know today: March 1, 2013
• Iranian exiles ask U.N., U.S. protection in Iraq after rocket hit
• Two car bombs at cattle market kill five in southern Iraq
• Military Warriors Support Foundation’s Website Showcases Hail to the Chiefs

U.S. lurches into new budget crisis, spending cuts imminent Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:55 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States lurched into a new budget crisis on Friday as President Barack Obama and Republicans failed to agree on stopping broad spending cuts that could dampen economic growth and curb military readiness. Put in place during a bout of deficit-reduction fever in 2011, the automatic cuts can only be halted by a deal between Congress and the White House. As expected, talks at the White House on Friday were fruitless, meaning that government agencies will now begin to hack a total of $85 billion from their budgets between Saturday and October 1. ...

Sequestration Anxiety? War Costs Could Have Paid for all Those Cuts Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:24 PM PST No one likes a told-you-so or a Monday-morning Commander in Chief, but with Congress and the president bickering over which essential government programs to cut due to a looming budget sequester, it's no time to worry about being popular.

GI's WikiLeaks admission energizes his supporters Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:09 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — While it may be a curious legal strategy, an Army private's decision to admit in court that he sent hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks has energized his supporters around the world.

Turkish PM's Zionism comments "objectionable": Kerry Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:14 PM PST ANKARA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday criticized a comment by Turkey's prime minister likening Zionism to crimes against humanity in a disagreement that cast a shadow over talks between the NATO allies. Kerry, on his first trip to a Muslim nation since taking office, met Turkish leaders for talks meant to focus on the civil war in neighboring Syria and bilateral interests from energy security and Iran's nuclear program to counter-terrorism. But the comment by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at a U.N. ...

10 Years Since Iraq: My Personal Account Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:55 PM PST As we near the 10-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, Yahoo News asked U.S. servicemen and women who served to share their perspectives and discuss how it changed them. Here's one story.

Judge: France's terror risk grows with Mali effort Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:05 PM PST PARIS (AP) — The longer that France's military intervention goes on in Mali, the greater the risk that homegrown Islamic militants will organize to plot attacks back in France, a top French counterterrorism investigator told The Associated Press.

Probe of Wisconsin governor's former aides closed without charges Posted: 01 Mar 2013 11:28 AM PST MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin district attorney on Friday formally closed a three-year probe of Governor Scott Walker's staff when he was Milwaukee County executive, lifting a major political cloud hanging over the controversial Republican. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said that after he determined no new charges would be filed he asked the judge overseeing the secret investigation to close the case. Judge Neal Nettesheim, a retired appellate court judge, granted the request and closed the investigation on February 21. ...

First Person: What Americans Can Do to Support the Troops, 10 Years After Iraq Posted: 01 Mar 2013 11:08 AM PST As we near the 10-year anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, Yahoo News asked U.S. servicemen and women who served to share their perspectives and discuss how it changed them. Here's one story.

Iraqi Sunni official announces resignation Posted: 01 Mar 2013 10:53 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Sunni finance minister drew cheers from anti-government protesters Friday when he announced he will resign from the government, further intensifying the country's political crisis nearly a decade after the U.S.-led invasion.

Calling All Dogs! Nominations Now Being Accepted For The 2013 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards™ Posted: 01 Mar 2013 09:04 AM PST Nation's bravest four-legged heroes to be honored by national humanitarian organizationWASHINGTON, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For thousands of years, dogs have comforted us, protected us, and given us their unconditional love. Now it's time to repay the favor and help a worthy cause at the same time. To do this, the nation's oldest humanitarian organization today opened nominations for the third annual American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards™. Nominations may be made online at www.herodogawards.org or by mail until April 30.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire. ...

ShelterBox first to distribute tents in Lebanon Posted: 01 Mar 2013 09:02 AM PST International disaster relief organization, ShelterBox, is the first among humanitarian agencies to provide thermally insulated tents to Syrian refugees living in Lebanon's harsh winter weather conditions.Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) March 01, 2013 International disaster relief organization, ShelterBox, is the first among humanitarian agencies to provide thermally insulated tents to Syrian refugees living in Lebanon's harsh winter weather conditions. ...

Iraqi divers retrieve bodies after boat accident Posted: 01 Mar 2013 08:48 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — Divers worked through the night and into Friday in murky waters to recover bodies from a partially sunken floating restaurant in Baghdad after an accident killed nine people attending a party for the local Caterpillar distributor.

Lebanon erects string of watchtowers on Syrian border Posted: 01 Mar 2013 08:36 AM PST A series of fortified watchtowers manned by Lebanese troops will soon stud a line of hills along Lebanon's northern border where Syrian artillery regularly trades fire with opposition rebels.

Iraqi finance minister tells protesters he is resigning Posted: 01 Mar 2013 06:51 AM PST RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni finance minister told a crowd of Sunni Muslim protesters on Friday he was resigning, after more than two months of demonstrations against the Shi'ite-led government. The country's precarious sectarian balance has come under growing strain as Iraqi Sunnis vent frustrations that have built up since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 overthrew Saddam Hussein and empowered majority Shi'ites through the ballot box. ...

Caro wins National Book Critics Circle bio prize Posted: 01 Mar 2013 06:36 AM PST Author Robert Caro is again the critics' choice.Caro's fourth Lyndon Baines Johnson book, "The Passage of Power," won the National Book Critics Circle biography prize on Thursday night. The 77-year-old ...

Scud missile fired in Syria lands near Iraqi village: mayor Posted: 01 Mar 2013 06:33 AM PST MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - A Scud missile fired from Syrian territory landed near a village in Iraq's Nineveh province on Friday, causing no damage but terrifying its inhabitants who fled, the mayor said, identifying the rocket as Russian-made. The conflict in neighboring Syria has previously spilled over the border into Iraq. In September, a five-year-old girl was killed when three rockets struck a border town in the al Qaim area. "A Russian-made Scud landed near the village of Yoush Tapa, 3 km from the Iraqi-Syrian border between Telafar and Baaj," said Abdul Aal Abbas, the mayor of Telafar. ...

Three New Partners Join Fluet Huber + Hoang to Help The Good Guys Posted: 01 Mar 2013 06:08 AM PST Fluet Huber + Hoang PLLC will host a reception to celebrate the addition of three new Partners to the firm.Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 01, 2013 Fluet Huber + Hoang is honored to welcome three prominent DC lawyers to the firm as partners: Christian B. Nagel, Thomas M. Craig, and Lee Dougherty. FH+H will host a reception at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington to celebrate and honor the new Partners.CHRISTIAN B. ...

Spending cuts due to ground Navy's Blue Angels flying team Posted: 01 Mar 2013 04:28 AM PST MOBILE, Alabama (Reuters) - Blue Angels pilot Dave Tickle said he is focused on practicing maneuvers for an upcoming show in California instead of worrying about how federal spending cuts will threaten performances this year by the U.S. Navy's renowned flight demonstration squadron. With $85 billion in automatic cuts due to take effect on Friday, millions of fans across the country will likely miss out on the precision flying team's thrilling shows this year. ...

The Iraq War, Nearly 10 Years Later Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:28 AM PST Here is something other than The Sequester to think about at the beginning of March:

Army GI says he leaked secrets to spark war debate Posted: 01 Mar 2013 01:44 AM PST FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — After almost three years in custody, the Army private accused in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history said he did it because he wanted the public to know how the American military was fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with little regard for human life.

Blasts at Iraqi market kill 5 south of Baghdad Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:32 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official says a pair of car bombs has exploded at a livestock market in the south of the country, killing five and wounding dozens.

10 things you need to know today: March 1, 2013 Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:30 AM PST The sequester spending cuts hit, the Vatican begins the search for a new pope, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion

Iranian exiles ask U.N., U.S. protection in Iraq after rocket hit Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:15 AM PST GENEVA (Reuters) - An Iranian exile leader called on Thursday for swift U.N. and U.S. action to prevent further attacks on Iranian dissidents in a transit camp in Iraq following a rocket strike in which at least five people were killed and many wounded. The dissident group Mujahadin-e-Khalq (MEK) calls for the overthrow of Iran's Shi'ite Muslim clerical leadership. The MEK fought alongside the forces of Iraq's late Sunni Muslim dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. ...

Two car bombs at cattle market kill five in southern Iraq Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:15 AM PST DIWANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two blasts at a busy cattle market in a mainly Shi'ite city in southern Iraq on Friday killed at least 5 people and injured dozens more, police and medics said, as Iraq's precarious sectarian balance comes under growing strain. No one claimed responsibility for the attacks immediately, but Sunni Muslim insurgents have been redoubling their efforts to undermine the Shi'ite-led government and spark deeper intercommunal fighting since the start of the year. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's power-sharing government has been all but paralyzed since U.S. ...

Military Warriors Support Foundation’s Website Showcases Hail to the Chiefs Posted: 28 Feb 2013 11:32 PM PST The Military Warriors Support Foundation (MWSF), a San Antonio–based nonprofit that helps combat veterans transition to civilian life, has devoted a page on its website to San Antonio author Stephen James Poppoon and his novel, Hail to the Chiefs.San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) February 28, 2013 The Military Warriors Support Foundation (MWSF), a San Antonio–based nonprofit that helps combat veterans transition to civilian life, has devoted a page on its website to San Antonio author Stephen James Poppoon and his novel, Hail to the Chiefs. ...

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