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SEATTLE (AP) — Four U.S. Army soldiers who were part of an elite team that does nighttime missions died when the MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter they were aboard crashed earlier this week near a military base in Washington state, Army officials said Friday. The helicopter was on a routine training mission west of Joint Base Lewis-McChord when it crashed at …

Military Helicopter Carrying 4 Soldiers Crashes in Washington State  The New York Times Military helicopter crashes in Washington state near Joint Base Lewis-McChord  Fox News Military helicopter crashes in Washington state  KING5.com Military helicopter crashes near Washington base  CNN Four Army service members onboard helicopter that crashed in Thurston County  KOMO Source link

Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has said that Israeli soldiers have conducted a raid at his West Bank home, searching for him and going through his wife’s phone. Israeli settlers attacked his village on Saturday, injuring two of his brothers and one cousin, Adra told the Associated Press. He accompanied them to the hospital. While there, he said that he …

Neil Young has released a new song lambasting Donald Trump, entitled Big Crime. The Canadian-American rocker has long been a critic of the US president, suing him (but later dropping the lawsuit) over the use of his songs at campaign rallies and calling him “the worst president in the history of our great country”. He has stepped up that criticism …

A welcome sign at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. (Abner Guzman/U.S. Air Force) JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A female military student is the victim of an October 2024 sexual assault in which four male soldiers are accused of attacking her in a barracks at the base, the Army said Tuesday. “She has since commissioned as an officer in the …

Legal proceedings for four Army soldiers charged in connection with the sexual assault of a college student in an Army barracks began this month, a spokesperson for the military branch said. The four were charged in April in connection with an Oct. 27 incident in barracks at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, southwest of Tacoma, Washington. The victim, who was not identified, …

Exclusive | More National Guard Soldiers Head to D.C. and Prepare to Carry Weapons  The Wall Street Journal Hundreds march to White House to protest Trump’s D.C. crackdown  NPR Despite Trump’s tough tone now, things were much worse in Washington when the National Guard was rolled out in 1968  CNN DECLARING A CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA  The White House (.gov) Pence: …

US President Donald Trump spared no effort in welcoming his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as they met face-to-face for the first time since 2018.The encounter at an Alaska airbase was special for three countries- the US, Ukraine, and Russia, as the meeting was to end the war, but it went viral for completely different reasons. Trump greeted Putin with an …

A friend of the man accused of gunning down five fellow soldiers at the Fort Stewart army base in Georgia earlier this week recounted how the suspect had been repeatedly bullied for having a serious stutter, according to a news report. Meanwhile, soldiers who acted swiftly to suppress the gunman and prevent the possibility of a much higher death toll …

Unarmed soldiers rushed a fellow service member who allegedly opened fire at Fort Stewart in Georgia, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said Thursday. Five soldiers were wounded in the shooting, and the suspect, a sergeant at the Army base, is in custody. “They were unarmed and ran at and tackled an armed person who they knew was actively shooting their buddies, their …