Pentagon
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F-35 fleet grounded after engine crack found
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The Pentagon says it has grounded its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets after discovering a cracked engine blade.
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Sequestration 2013: Pentagon employees could be furloughed one day a week
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Furloughs from the sequestration would impact more than 750,000 workers in every state - from office staffers to teachers to aircraft maintenance workers.
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Panetta: 800K workers likely to be furloughed if sequestration kicks in
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress on Wednesday that if automatic government spending cuts kick in on March 1 he may have to shorten the workweek for the "vast majority" of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian workers.
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Sequestration: Gov. McDonnell pushes Obama to avert sequestration
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Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell says the threat of cuts from the 2011 Budget Control Act is already harming Virginia.
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Chuck Hagel nomination blocked
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GOP Senators have, for now, blocked Chuck Hagel's nomination to become defense secretary.
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Chuck Hagel nomination: Senate panel approves Hagel's nomination
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A Senate panel Tuesday approved Chuck Hagel's nomination for defense secretary. The nomination now goes to the full senate for a vote.
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Senate Democrats craft bill to avert budget cuts
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Top Senate Democrats have prepared a plan to slice the Pentagon's budget by $3 billion a year in an attempt to avoid far steeper cuts that defense hawks warn would cripple the military.
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Robert Gates, former Pentagon chief, OK with drone oversight
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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he finds merit in "some check" on a president's ability to order drone strikes against American al-Qaida suspects overseas.
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Panetta poised to extend benefits to same-sex partners: AP sources
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Officials say Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of military members.
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US fighter jet missing on training mission
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A search was launched after the Air Force lost all contact with the plane Monday, but there is no immediate word from the Pentagon on whether the plane crashed.
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Pentagon furloughs could come en masse in April
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A top Pentagon official says that hundreds of thousands of civilian Pentagon employees could face major furloughs - perhaps as much as one day of work per week - if Congress doesn't avert major spending cuts by March 1.
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Pentagon: Budget crisis could hurt war effort
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The Afghan war effort eventually would be harmed by across-the-board budget cuts, even as the Obama administration intends to shield the military's combat mission from the reductions, the Pentagon's No. 2 official said Friday.
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Panetta lifts ban on women in combat
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Panetta's tenure marked by fiscal crisis, budget battle
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's time in the Pentagon came at a critical moment - dominated by the nation's fiscal crisis and an endless struggle to protect the defense budget.
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Chuck Hagel to be backed by senators Boxer, Schumer
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Chuck Hagel secured the backing of two of the staunchest pro-Israel Senate Democrats in a clear boost to the Republican's prospects of becoming President Barack Obama's next defense secretary.
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2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349
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Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan.
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Yonathan Melaku sentenced to 25 years behind bars
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The man accused of shooting the Pentagon and other military installations in the D.C. area was sentenced to 25 years behind bars Friday.
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Yonathan Melaku defense seeks review of plea
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Lawyers for an ex-Marine convicted of shooting at the Pentagon and other military targets want a judge to review a plea deal calling for a 25-year prison sentence now that their client has been diagnosed as schizophrenic.
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