JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A 22-year-old U.S. soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murders of three unarmed Afghan civilians, telling a military judge “the plan was to kill people” in his coordinated conspiracy with four fellow soldiers.

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US soldier pleads guilty to murders of 3 Afghan civilians, faces up to 24 years in prison

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to strip $450 million from funds slated for a controversial program to build an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter second engine, a next-generation aircraft development program that has been riddled with cost overruns and labeled unnecessary by critics.

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House votes down F-35 fighter funding

During Thursday’s celebration of Comcast and NBC Universal’s long-awaited union, some NBC employees were vexed by what they saw-or didn’t see: NBC’s iconic peacock was missing from the joint company’s new, internal logo. Comcast apparently wanted to…

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NBC Mourns Loss of Peacock

For 61 years, the Gottliebs and the Stopols have been celebrating the holidays and their joint wedding anniversaries on Christmas Day.

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Big City: 4 Friends’ Toast of 60 Years: Merry Anniversary!

Not that it matters much, but I’m impressed : By the end of another tumultuous day, treaty backers said they could count more than the two-thirds majority required for approval in votes that could begin as early as Tuesday. The Senate mustered as many as 64 votes in defeating Republican amendments on Monday, just two short of what supporters need for final approval, and three senators who supported one of the amendments have already said they will vote for the treaty in the end.  The momentum building for the treaty came despite the announcements of the two top Senate Republican leaders, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Jon Kyl of Arizona, that they will vote against the treaty, known as New Start. Treaty supporters pressured wavering Republicans on Monday with an appeal by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s top military officer, to approve the agreement. This could fail, and I’m always going to be a critic, and I still think his hectoring of the Left is more catharsis then pragmatism.  But at this point, it has to be said that Barack Obama is doing work .

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Obama Rolling

In Seoul on Wednesday, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, lashed out at China for failing to intervene with Pyongyang diplomatically.

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U.S. Military Chief Criticizes China Over North Korea

An upcoming military review of the war in Afghanistan is not expected to result in any major changes in U.S. strategy, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said Sunday.

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Mullen: ‘Fragile’ progress in Afghanistan

Washington – The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to generate usable intelligence on al Qaeda there. That failure has given the CIA a new argument for wresting control of the drone war in Yemen from the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) which now controls the drone assets in the country. But some key administration officials are resisting a CIA takeover of the war in Yemen, as reported by the Washington Post Nov. 7. read more

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Behind Drone Issue in Yemen, a Struggle to Control Covert Ops

The UK and France, whose leaders meet in London later, are to sign a treaty agreeing to the joint development and testing of nuclear warheads.

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UK and France plan nuclear tests

A card with codes to access instructions for launching a nuclear attack went missing for months, says a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Bill Clinton.

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Ex-general: Nuke launch card went missing for months

The national debt is bad for the military, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen is telling business men and women and others on a three-day “Conversations with the Country” tour across the Midwest.

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Mullen: Debt is top security threat

Two kidnapped Jordanian peacekeepers with the joint UN-African Union force in the Sudanese region of Darfur are freed unharmed.

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UN peacekeepers freed in Darfur

Two peacekeepers with the joint UN-African Union force in the Sudanese region of Darfur are kidnapped at gunpoint.

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Gunmen seize Darfur peacekeepers