National Politics
Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level
Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.
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Political landscape changes with improving economy
Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President Barack Obama's watch, robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats.
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Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes
President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.
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Obama's speechwriter: from intern to top wordsmith
When President Barack Obama decided to attend a memorial service in Arizona for victims of a deadly mass shooting that severely injured then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he needed a speech. And fast.
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Hagel: Cadets must stamp out sex assault scourge
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military.
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Community outreach key to Obama counterterror plan
Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15.
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Key senators tightly control immigration debate
For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation.
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A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery
Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his twin-prop AC-47 was easily visible against a blue sky as he banked west.
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The Crew of Spooky 21
Select an image to the right for more information on each of Spooky 21's crew members. Arlington National Cemetery Site of the crew's grave Back to map ...
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The Modified AC-47 aircraft
A brief description of the Spooky gunship, the modified AC-47.
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Interactive: The Flight of Spooky 21
It is unclear exactly what conditions the six-man crew encountered that caused their mission on Dec. 24, 1965, to end in a crash in southeastern Laos. Decades later, a small amount of their physical remains were found. Follow the flight and subsequent search in this interactive map.
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