U.S. Scales-Back Military Exercise with Israel, Affecting Potential Iran Strike

A smaller U.S. contingent may make it more difficult for the Israeli government to launch a pre-emptive strike on Tehran’s nuclear program.

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The third straight Republican Convention greatly impacted by a major storm

The third straight Republican Convention greatly impacted by a major storm.

There were two major record-setting, billion-dollar hurricanes at the time of the 2004 (Frances) and 2008 (Gustav) Republican Conventions. They literally became the main news stories up to and during the Republican Convention.

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Agencies tamp down speculation over hollow-point ammo purchases

Obscure federal agencies triggered a firestorm of conspiracy theories this week after they put out orders for thousands of rounds of deadly hollow-point bullets. 

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Virginia vintners taste the police state

While the Obama administration is busy eviscerating private property rights at the federal level, Republican-controlled Fauquier County, Va., has decided to follow suit in its own way. Fauquier’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a winery ordinance that tramples private property rights and some fundamental civil liberties.

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Half of U.S. counties now ‘disaster’ areas as drought spreads…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states were added Wednesday to the U.S. government’s list of natural disaster areas as the nation’s agriculture chief unveiled new help for frustrated, cash-strapped farmers and ranchers grappling with extreme dryness and heat.

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Extreme Drought Grows in Heartland

The drought disaster in the nation’s Heartland continues to worsen, even as rains elsewhere cut into the total extent of drought, according to the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday morning.

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Marine Corps creates law enforcement battalions

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — The Marine Corps has created its first law enforcement battalions – a lean, specialized force of military police officers that it hopes can quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train fledgling security forces in allied nations.

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Portrait of a Warrior (Baytown, Texas)

Historic drought to bring higher food prices

The historic drought baking the nation’s breadbasket is about to hit American consumers where it hurts most — the supermarket checkout.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/17/historic-drought-conditions-can-lead-to-higher-food-prices-experts-say/#ixzz20trkt07B

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Iran thinks the drought in the southern part of the country is cause by west…

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Scare at State Fair: witnesses describe mobs, including some claiming racially-charged attacks

WEST ALLIS – Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY’S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene.

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