Devin Smith, who lived in the Virginia Beach apartment complex which was totaled by a fighter jet crash, told Reddit that she's only getting $89 per day for lodging.
Iran's vague threat against a U.S. aircraft carrier seems pretty empty, coming as it does after the ship already left the Persian Gulf, but it's the most aggressive language yet from the increasingly isolated republic.
A commercial satellite company has released this photo of the Varyag, the thousand-foot-long, 55,000-ton beast of a boat that the Chinese military is cruising around the Yellow Sea in a second round of sea tests this month.
"I've been abused worse than the detainees have been abused," J.D. Gordon, then the Navy's spokesman at Guantanamo Bay told The Washington Post in 2009, lamenting the lack of a media uproar over his accusations that a Miami Herald reporter was sexually harassing him.
The Chinese navy's newest flag ship has started its first round of sea trials
Virginia Beach, home to the SEALs, has become a stalking ground for admirers
An order allowing chaplains to perform same-sex unions was issued then rescinded
Is there a connection? At least one politician thinks so
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