War_Conflict

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New York city police officers armed with heavy weapons pause for a break in between patrolling Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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National Edition News cover for December 31, 2014 - Military hardware still flowing to local police after Ferguson: Police wearing riot gear try to disperse a crowd Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed by police on Aug. 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Police have been on the lookout for those bearing arms along the busy Interstate 95 corridor between Florida and Maine. Especially zealous police officers have stopped several motorists in Maryland. (Associated Press)

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After critics decried Ferguson, Missouri, police using Defense Department-donated heavy artillery against rioting protesters, some law enforcement agencies are returning military-grade weaponry back to the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

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A cannon battery marks where Union forces were entrenched during the Siege of Vicksburg, which rocked the Mississippi town between May 18 and July 4, 1863. (ERIC ALTHOFF/WASHINGTON TIMES)

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In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2014, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Georgetown University in Washington. A still undeclared candidate, Clinton sits atop the prospective field of Democratic presidential candidates for 2016. But as she has said before, if Clinton runs again, she'll work as hard as any underdog. Clinton's 2008 presidential bid stumbled against President Barack Obama, undermined by anti-war activists who opposed her vote to authorize the Iraq war, infighting among her staff and a large entourage in the early states where retail politics matter. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Two Los Angeles police officers were shot at Sunday night while they drove their patrol car in what police are calling an "unprovoked attack." (KTLA 5)

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FILE PHOTO - Rangers from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment and a multi-purpose canine pause during a nighttime combat mission in Afghanistan. Courtesy U.S. Army.

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Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue toward Capitol Hill on Dec. 13. The ongoing protests have cost District police about $3 million. (Associated Press)

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Five American troops and one Afghan were killed June 9 when a B-1B bomber mistook them for enemy forces in Afghanistan's Zabul Province due to multiple human factors. (Associated Press)

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Comedian Andy Kaufman died of lung cancer in 1984, though there are some who believe his death was a hoax. (Associated press)

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President Obama praised the courage of the U.S. Armed Forces as he called an end to combat operations in Afghanistan, thereby closing America's longest war. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) — FILE

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In this photo taken with a fisheye lens, people protest Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, for Michael Brown, who was killed by police Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's shooting has sparked more than a week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Protesters gather near the Ferguson Police Department, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Missouri's governor ordered hundreds more state militia into Ferguson on Tuesday, after a night of protests and rioting over a grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a case that has inflamed racial tensions in the U.S. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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People defy a curfew Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, before smoke and tear gas was fired to disperse a crowd protesting the shooting of teenager Michael Brown last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's shooting in the middle of a street following a suspected robbery of a box of cigars from a nearby market has sparked a week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Orthodox priests pray as they stand between pro-European Union activists and police lines in central Kiev, Ukraine, early Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. A top Ukrainian opposition leader on Thursday urged protesters to maintain a shaky cease-fire with police after at least two demonstrators were killed in clashes this week, but some in the crowd appeared defiant, jeering and chanting "revolution" and "shame." (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Mosheh Twersky, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing Twersky and three others in the city's bloodiest attack in years. Police killed the attackers in a shootout. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)