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Incoming female students at US Naval Academy must cut hair below chinThe school is returning to a female grooming standard that it upheld for decades before a 2018 shift in policy.By Riley Ceder3 days ago
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Airstrike killed senior ISIS commander in Syria, CENTCOM saysA senior Islamic State leader was killed by an airstrike last week, Central Command announced on Wednesday.By Eve Sampson4 days ago
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‘They got very lucky,’ Trump says of downed Apache helicopter’s crewAfter a U.S. Army Apache helicopter was downed by an Iranian drone, President Donald Trump said the rescued aviators “got very lucky.”By Tanya Noury3 weeks ago
