Russian warplanes bombed a garrison used by US and British forces in Syria twice last month...
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The technical details of air-to-air missiles are extremely complicated, but the concept is simple — destroy your target before the target destroys you. One way to improve the odds is to add an air-breathing ramjet engine to give the weapon a boost. That’s the design philosophy behind the Meteor, a 419-pound rail-launched MiG killer which entered service for the first time with the Swedish air force on July 11. Stockholm’s agile, delta-wing Gripen fighters carry the missiles. “The Swedish air force is now in its Initial Operational Capability phase with the Meteor,” Swedish air force chief Maj. Gen. Mats Helgesson said. “The Meteor missile is the most lethal radar-guided missile in operational
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Keith Davis and David Ruth couldn't wait to move their family into their new home. "When we drove through the neighborhood, we loved everything," says Davis, 36, who bought his home in Avondale, Pennsylvania, with his partner in October 2014. "A lot of other homes in the neighborhood have fences, so at the time I thought he was just upset that my property line went all the way up to his house," Davis tells PEOPLE.
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Scottie Nell Hughes, a CNN conservative commentator, did not appreciate Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine speaking Spanish during a rally with Hillary Clinton after becoming her running mate on the Democratic ticket. Hughes continued, “But what Mr. Trump did, he spoke in a language that all Americans can understand. Hughes appreciated the fact that she could understand everything that was going on at the Republican National Convention, but was worried she might have a different experience at the Democratic National Convention.
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They may look alright on the outside, but when it comes to overall quality, these 10 cars can't cut the mustard.
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"We have put unprecedented resources at our border," he said. "Well, it turns out that the rate of illegal migration into the United States today is lower by two-thirds than it was when Ronald Reagan was president. We have far fewer undocumented workers crossing the border today than we did in the '80s or the '90s or when George Bush was president." The best measure that we have of how many people try to enter the country illegally is how many of those people are apprehended each year, according to the United States Border Patrol. In 1986, the number of apprehensions peaked and US Border Patrol picked up more than 1.6 million undocumented immigrants. In the 1990s, more than 1 million people trying
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From the White House: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release July 22, 2016 TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 1777, the “Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2016,” which would amend the Former Presidents Act of 1958. I agree with H.R. 1777’s goal of reforming the pensions and allowances provided to former Presidents so as to reduce unnecessary costs to taxpayers. But if implemented as drafted, the bill would have unintended consequences. It would impose onerous and unreasonable burdens on the offices of former Presidents, including by requiring the General Services Administration to immediately terminate salaries
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If you pay more than $29 per month for electricity, you better read this. Homeowners are having record savings on energy by installing solar in 2016.
The Beijing government has urged peace after India deployed 100 tanks to its border with China in Ladakh. Citing the India-China border as being having always been "stable", China said that India should continue to resolve their territorial disputes through peaceful negotiation. The Indian military's deployment of T-72 tanks to the Chinese border came as a reaction to an "increase in force levels" from across the border.
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