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Christmas Bombshell Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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A Man Who Wasn't There Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on the importance of war games in developing stategy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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The U.S. Army's "What's Your Warrior?" campaign spotlights numerous non-combat career fields for potential recruits. (Image: U.S. Army, goarmy.com promotional screenshot)
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A combat controller team from the 720th Special Tactics Group exits a C-130 Hercules during a high-altitude, high-opening jump during Joint Exercise Flintlock Feb. 28, 2014, over northeastern Niger. Flintlock is an annual, African-led, military exercise focused on security, counter-terrorism and military humanitarian support to outlying areas hosted each year by a different government in western Africa. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Tech. Sgt. Eugene Crist)
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A special tactics operator from the 24th Special Operations Wing jumps out of the back of an MC-130H Combat Talon II, Hurlburt Field, Fla., April 19, 2019. The 24th SOW is the Air Force’s only special tactics wing and U.S. Special Operations Command’s tactical air-to-ground integration force and the Air Force’s special operations ground force to enable global access, precision strike, personnel recovery and battlefield surgery operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michelle Di Ciolli)
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A U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party member (right) points at a target in the field to a U.S. Air Force Combat Controller while participating in close air support training during Emerald Warrior 2014 on Hurlburt Field, Fla., May 1, 2014. Emerald Warrior is an annual, joint exercise to train special operations, conventional and partner nation forces in combat scenarios designed to hone special operations air and ground combat skills, and is the Department of Defense's only irregular warfare exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Colville McFee / Released)
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From left: Senior Airman Chase Litvan, Staff Sgt. Josh Arias and Staff Sgt. Will Doherty, U.S. Air Force combat controllers from the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, Fort Bragg, N.C. conduct air traffic control operations on the edge of the Geronimo Landing Zone at Fort Polk, La. during Joint Readiness Training Center rotation 13-09, Aug. 20, 2013. Combat Controllers are special operations forces and certified FAA air traffic controllers whose mission is to deploy, undetected, into combat and hostile environments to establish assault zones or airfields, while simultaneously conducting air traffic control, fire support, command and control, direct action, counter-terrorism, foreign internal defense, humanitarian assistance, and special reconnaissance. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)(Released)
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A Navy HH-60H Seahawk from the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron84, extracts Air Force combat controllers during Emerald Warrior, May 2, 2014, at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Emerald Warrior is an annual, joint exercise to train special operations, conventional and partner nation forces in combat scenarios designed to hone special operations air and ground combat skills, and is the Department of Defenses only irregular warfare exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Tim Chacon)
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In this July 18, 2016, file photo, Pastor Paula White delivers the benediction at the close of the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. White now has a formal role in the administration with the Public Liaison Office, which oversees outreach to constituent groups seen as key parts of the president's base. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., listens as an audience member poses a question at a Newport Town Hall Breakfast Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019, at the Newport Opera House in Newport, N.H. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)
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Sen. Bernard Sanders was a blip on he screen when he announced his presidential bid in 2016. Since then the party has moved further in his direction, but it's also made it more difficult for him to stand out on policy. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Ms. Pelosi are demanding that more documents and White House officials that were blocked in the House investigation be allowed to testify in the Senate impeachment trial.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, has refused to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate until Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, lays out how he will run the trial. (Associated Press Photographs)
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The Afghan government's cease-fire with the Taliban is expected to last a week and up to 10 days, according to a news report. (Associated Press)
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A Ukrainian war prisoner embraces his mother after being released after a prisoner exchange in Ukraine on Sunday. Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels began exchanging prisoners in a move aimed at ending a five-year-long war. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, left, speaks to relatives of Ukrainian prisoners waiting their arrival after being released after a prisoner exchange at Boryspil airport, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2019. Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have exchanged 200 prisoners in a move aimed at ending their five-year war. The swap is part of an agreement brokered this month at a summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
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U.S. forces struck five sites in Iraq and Syria, a Defense Department spokesman said Sunday. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper called the strikes successful. (Associated Press)
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee and Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **
