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1 month ago | 
unionleader.com | Larry Liebert |Aliaksandr Kudrytski
President Donald Trump has been consistent in blaming the war on Ukraine on his predecessor but continued Monday to waver on which side to blame for the failure to achieve the ceasefire he’s promised to produce. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy “and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin,” Trump said in a posting on his social media site. “There were so many ways of preventing it from ever starting. But that is the past.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Larry Liebert
Representatives from the UK, Ukraine, and Germany during a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels on April 11. (Bloomberg) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kept his distance — physically and rhetorically — on Friday from a meeting of nations providing military support to Ukraine. Hegseth “virtually attended a UK- and German-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group” meeting in Brussels, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Tony Capaccio |Larry Liebert
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Larry Liebert
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Iran and the militant groups it backs against attacking Americans in the Middle East, while the White House renewed calls on Israel to avoid triggering a wider regional war. Two days after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike on Beirut, the Pentagon elaborated on U.S. naval and air forces deployed in the region and announced a planned increase in defensive air support.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
thederrick.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Larry Liebert
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Alicia Diaz |Alicia Díaz |Larry Liebert
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Iran and the militant groups it backs against attacking Americans in the Middle East, while the White House renewed calls on Israel to avoid triggering a wider regional war. Two days after Israel killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike on Beirut, the Pentagon elaborated on U.S. naval and air forces deployed in the region and announced a planned increase in defensive air support.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Larry Liebert
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Iran and the militant groups it backs against attacking Americans in the Middle East. “Secretary Austin made clear that should Iran, its partners, or its proxies use this moment to target American personnel or interests in the region, the United States will take every necessary measure to defend our people,” Major General Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement Sunday.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thedailynewsonline.com | Larry Liebert |Roxana Tiron
The U.S. Defense Department said it will provide “additional military support capabilities” to the Secret Service to guard the major presidential and vice presidential candidates through the November election. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service, for “increased support” at “various locations across the United States,” Samantha Singh, a Defense Department spokeswoman, told reporters Thursday.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thelcn.com | Larry Liebert |Roxana Tiron
The U.S. Defense Department said it will provide “additional military support capabilities” to the Secret Service to guard the major presidential and vice presidential candidates through the November election. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service, for “increased support” at “various locations across the United States,” Samantha Singh, a Defense Department spokeswoman, told reporters Thursday.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
stripes.com | Larry Liebert |Roxana Tiron
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images/TNS) (Tribune News Service) — The U.S. Defense Department said it will provide “additional military support capabilities” to the Secret Service to guard the major presidential and vice presidential candidates through the November election in the aftermath of the...
