Mayors from across the United States are to vote on a resolution urging Congress to quickly end wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and spend the money on domestic priorities. The vote is expected Monday as an annual conference of mayors ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has visited service members wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and awarded two of them purple hearts. The White House said the president met with a total of 21 wounded ...

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A day before the fifth anniversary of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s death in Iraq, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Kansas congregation had the right to picket his Westminster funeral. The court, in an 8-1 vote on Wednesday, ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in a grisly 2004 ambush on the restive streets of Iraq. U.S. District Judge ...

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