The return of budget caps and the potential for automatic across-the-board spending cuts through 2021 pose the No. 1 defense fiscal challenge for the the next president and defense secretary, according to Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord. “There is no deal on the books, so you are starting with a clean sheet of paper” that “overshadows their whole first term,” McCord said in an interview ... 1 ... “What does the new team think?” ... LEARN MORE. ....
An unnamed Turkish official has confirmed the nationalities of the three men who carried out Tuesday’s deadly attack on Istanbul’s airport as Russian, Uzbek and Kyrgyz nationals, Turkish media and officials told various media outlets.Turkey believes Islamic State militants were behind the suicide gun and bomb attack killing 43 and wounding more than 230 people – many of them airport workers, BBCNews reported Thursday....
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Jupiter takes center stage with the arrival next week of a NASA spacecraft built to peek through its thick, swirling clouds and map the planet from the inside out. The solar-powered Juno spacecraft is on the final leg of a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile voyage to the biggest planet in the solar system.... ....
(CNN)With just 38 days to go before the Rio Olympics kicks off, the situation in the host city just went from bad to worse. A beach goer Wednesday discovered mutilated human body parts that had washed up on the shore, right in front of the OlympicBeach VolleyballArena on Rio's famed Copacabana beach. A dismembered foot and another body part still unidentified was found, according to Andre Luiz, an officer of the Military Police... ....
Former London MayorBoris Johnson shocked the United Kingdom Thursday when he unexpectedly ruled himself out as a candidate to be Britain’s next prime minister after justice secretary Michael Gove, chair of Johnson’s leadership campaign, decided to run for the Conservative leadership chair himself, The Guardian reported ... The result will be announced on Sept. 9.– WN.com, Jack Durschlag....
They came down in bundles in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province... I don't think it'll matter." ... "The UNCMAC prohibits both Koreas from engaging in hostilities," the officer added. "If we disseminate leaflets in a military capacity, it's highly likely that the UNCMAC will oppose it because of possible cross-border tensions." . ....
(Source. Joint Chiefs of Staff) PANMUNJOM, Korea, March 09, 2015 - ...Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr. said the tour is a powerful reminder of just why American service men and women give so much to defend the freedom of the nation ... role in the region. ... North Korea Watches Delegation ... UNCMAC supervises the armistice agreement, which was signed in 1953 and created the DMZ that serves as a buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea ... The U.S....