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Army Chaplain Jailed For Drunken Behavior, Shoppette Gas Theft

November 2, 2020
Source: Getty Images KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — A series of bad decisions, from stealing gas to smashing the window of his estranged wife’s car, has landed an Army chaplain assigned to Stuttgart in jail for a month. Chaplain (Maj.) Donald V. Wood was sentenced Tuesday at a general court-martial, after a military judge found him guilty of larceny, conduct unbecoming an officer and a…
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Army-Navy Game to Be Played at West Point This Year

November 2, 2020
U.S. Naval Academy quarterback (#2) Kriss Proctor runs the ball during the 112th Army-Navy Football game at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. 10 Dec 2011 (Photo: U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad Runge) For the first time since World War II, the…
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Have Army Emergency Relief Debt? It Could Soon Be Canceled

November 2, 2020
Several hundred soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division were reunited with their families following a nine month deployment, July 23, 2019, at Fort Drum, New York. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Paige Behringer) More than 1,000 soldiers and Army families who received loans this year from Army Emergency Relief are about to get a windfall, as the nonprofit forgives those debts, converting them instead to…
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US Drone Strike Kills 17 Jihadists in NW Syria

November 2, 2020
U.S. military convoy drives through the town of Qamishli, north Syria, by a poster showing Syrain President Bashar Aassad Saturday, Oct. 26. 2019. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad) The U.S. Army said Thursday it carried out a drone strike against Al-Qaeda leaders in northwestern…
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Huawei reportedly bets on Shanghai chip plant to overcome US trade ban

November 2, 2020
Huawei might have a way to avoid some of the worst consequences of tightening US trade restrictions, provided it’s willing to be patient. Financial Times sources claim Huawei is planning a dedicated chip factory in Shanghai that would make parts for its core telecom infrastructure business. It would be run by a partner, the city-backed Shanghai IC R&D Center, and would be considered…
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Samsung Galaxy Watch3 Titanium hands-on

November 2, 2020
Samsung is a key player in the smart wearable business and its current line of Tizen-powered Galaxy Watch3 smartwatches are among the most popular around. But up until September the Galaxy Watch3 line didn’t have a truly premium model on sale to compete with rivals…
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More Oppo K7x specs appear ahead of launch

November 2, 2020
Oppo is launching the K7x smartphone on Wednesday, November 4, and initially, the company revealed this device will have a big battery. Now the phone with model number PDM00 appeared on Geekbench with a Dimensity 720 5G chipset, while a new official Weibo post unveiled an LCD panel with a 90Hz refresh rate. The benchmarked unit had 8GB RAM which is rather impressive for an entry-level handset. We…
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