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The Washington Post is calling it quits on its presidential fact-checking database, one hundred days into President Joe Biden’s administration. “Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of the Fact Checker, tweeted late Monday that the team would continue to fact-check President Biden ‘rigorously’ but would no longer maintain the database started under former President Trump,” the Washington Times reported Tuesday.

LONG BEACH, Calif., April 20, 2007 – Maintaining superiority in space will go a long way toward protecting U.S. national interests, the commander of the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center said here. “If adversaries are using space in ways that would threaten America or our forces on the battlefield, we have to be able to disrupt or deny their use of those capabilities,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael A. Hamel told American Forces Press Service during the the center’s Industry Days held here April 17-19. “Space capabilities will become increasingly critical to our national well-being.” The center...

SACRAMENTO Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday plans to ask the federal government to prohibit roads on 4.4 million acres of national forest land in California, with limited exceptions for thinning trees to reduce fire danger. The goal is to protect areas of the forests that currently are not accessible by roads, Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman said Tuesday. Schwarzenegger is acting under a regulation adopted last year by the Bush administration. That regulation replaced a Clinton-era rule prohibiting road-building on nearly a third of national forest land. Clinton passed the road-building ban eight days before he left office in January 2001....

Founded in 1929 to unite the country after Mexico's revolution, the PRI ruled by accepting all ideologies. It catered to unions, the rich, the poor -- anyone who would support it. Its platform was maintaining power." - Associated Press, Sunday, June 25, 2006 I've been thinking the past few weeks about the conservative movement and the idea of winning versus merely staying ahead -- a strategy seemingly employed at the national level to ensure that the Republicans maintain the majority. Notice none of the political pundits are talking about Republicans trying to pick up seats this election cycle. They're merely...

U.S. Army Mechanics Maintain Wheels, Weapons Soldiers assigned to F Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment maintain everything from vehicles to weapons for the entire Regional Command of Eastern Afghanistan. By U.S. Army Sgt. Tim Sander345th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment FORWARD OPERATING BASE ORGUN-E, Afghanistan, June 7, 2006 -- “I don’t believe in band-aids; I expect my mechanics to fix the problem,” said U.S. Army 1st Lt. Raymond R. Longoria, maintenance platoon leader for F Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment from Fort Drum, N.Y. "I personally have not heard the soldiers complain at all. The troops here are...

AL TAQADDUM, Iraq (May 4, 2006) -- A line of tracers and a corkscrewing missile flash up from the ground a thousand feet below a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, which immediately takes evasive action. Trailing bright sparkles of light emit from its aft sections, as a gout of flame spits from its side-door machine gun. Saving the helicopter from enemy fire are the flying skills of its pilots, the deadly aim of its enlisted crew and an electronic countermeasure flare system. The job of maintaining the M2 .50-caliber machine guns and flares that are instrumental in the helicopter's survival belongs...

AL ASAD, Iraq (Mar. 30, 2006) -- A Marine's eyes stared intensely at the loudspeaker on the small talk-box, as a voice flowed through the static. Indirect fire had smashed into the starlit streets only moments ago, and the reaction plan was already in effect. The Marine then began relaying transmissions, setting up networks and stabilizing communications for the Tactical Air Command Center, as the air base came alive in the dark of night. Marines with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 38, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, are in charge of the Tactical Air Command Center...

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2006 – Extremists cannot hope to match the United States and its coalition allies in battle, but that might not matter at all. Al Qaeda and like terrorist groups understand that they only have to win the battle for American resolve to be successful, a top military strategy official said. Americans are an impatient people, and that impatience will work against final victory in what many people are now calling "the Long War," Army Brig. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr., the Joint Staff's director of strategy for the global war on terrorism, said in an interview....

ABOARD USS CAPE ST. GEORGE (NNS) -- USS Cape. St. George’s (CG 71) boarding team responded to a distress call by a Panamanian-flagged motor vessel while conducting maritime security operations in the North Persian Gulf Feb. 27. The master of Motor Vessel Hader, a diesel tanker, contacted Cape St. George via bridge-to-bridge reporting it had been fired upon and illegally boarded. One of Cape’s two Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) teams boarded the vessel and conducted a security sweep of the ship to verify that it was safe for the master and his 11 crew members to stay aboard....

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 30, 2005 — Today marks the end of Central Command’s annual Coalition conference. The Coalition conference is important for many reasons, not the least of which is to lay out future requirements and maintain the momentum we have achieved in 2005. As of Nov. 1, there were 63 Coalition partners involved with Iraq, 28 of those have contributed troops. Coalition partners provide many important items to the fight: intelligence exchange, basing, troops, and financial or equipment donations. Everyone plays a vital role and none is more important than the other. All contribute to making Iraq a state...

U.S. Army Cpl. Billy J. King, of Burnet, Texas, and a designated unit marksman with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 56th Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard, sets his sights and prepares to engage a target down range with his M-24 sniper rifle during a training exercise in southern Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Lek Mateo More Photos Texas Guard Troops Maintain Combat Edge The soldiers try to conduct as much training as they can between their combat missionsin order to hone their marksmanship skills and refine their battle drills. By...

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WASHINGTON - While pledging to help President Bush (news - web sites) promote anti-abortion judges to the federal bench, Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) is struggling to maintain his proudly cultivated image as an independent thinker and sometime maverick. To salvage the Judiciary Committee (news - web sites) chairmanship he's in line to get in January, the Pennsylvania Republican has been promising to support anti-abortion nominees even though he favors abortion rights. Specter's elevation to the panel's chairmanship after 24 years in the Senate was put in doubt two weeks ago when he told reporters that judges who...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - The California Chamber of Commerce and its allies failed to put a dent in the Democrats' big majorities in the Legislature on Tuesday, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll wield less clout at the Capitol. They still have the Terminator. "They have a governor who leaps when they say jump," said Rico Mastrodonato, Northern California director for the League of Conservation Voters. "Having a governor like Schwarzenegger is one of the most powerful tools the business community has to leverage their agenda." JOBS PAC, the campaign arm of the chamber and the California Manufacturers and Technology Association,...

Democratic candidate Kerry vows to maintain US troops in Iraq for years By Patrick Martin 17 July 2004 In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry declared that, if he were elected, US troops would remain in Iraq throughout his first term in office—to the end of 2008. The Democratic candidate also suggested that the Bush administration was more likely to withdraw troops quickly than a Kerry administration. Both the content of the interview and the choice of publication—the Journal has been the most vehement media advocate of the war in Iraq and...

<p>SACRAMENTO - State Treasurer Phil Angelides on Tuesday decried Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed budget cuts to higher education as crippling to the very job-creating machine the Republican governor promises to rev up.</p> <p>In a two-day, six-stop tour from Chico to San Diego, the Democrat will argue that investment in higher education is critical to maintaining California's innovative edge. Angelides, a likely contender for governor in 2006, has assumed the mantle of Schwarzenegger's chief critic.</p>

<p>HOUSTON - New information from 32 seconds of garbled data show that shuttle Columbia's flight control system was still trying to guide the orbiter even after NASA lost contact with the ship, the agency said Saturday.</p> <p>NASA has been working feverishly to resurrect information from the data, which Columbia continued to transmit after Mission Control lost contact with the seven-member crew on Feb. 1.</p>