By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
SINGAPORE, May 31, 2008 – With progress being made in Iraq, the United States must focus on getting the “end game” right, while being patient enough to refrain from making “a tactical decision that has strategic consequences,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
Gates, addressing questions after his keynote [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
SINGAPORE, May 31, 2008 – While the United States and the international community have reached out to Burma, the generals ruling the country “have kept their hands in their pockets,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
In a question-and-answer session after addressing delegates of the annual Asian security conference [...]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 31, 2008 — Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 p.m. EDT Saturday to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station.
The mission, designated STS-124, is the second of three flights to launch components to complete the Japan Aerospace [...]

ATLANTA, May 22, 2008 – Georgia’s State Board of Pardons and Paroles commuted the death sentence of a convicted murderer just hours before he was set to die by lethal injection.
Samuel David Crowe was sentenced to death in Douglas County for the March 1988 murder of Joseph V. Pala. The State Board of Pardons and [...]

By Stephanie Ho
Voice of America
BEIJING, May 20, 2008 — Rescuers continue to pull people out of the rubble, alive, more than one week after a massive earthquake struck southwestern China’s Sichuan Province.  The latest government figures confirm more than 40,000 people have died and more than 247,000 people have been injured.
The heroic rescue came in [...]

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 20, 2008 — A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee returned an 18-count indictment today charging a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee with conspiring to defraud the U.S. Air Force and disclose restricted U.S. military data about Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to foreign nationals without first [...]

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ATLANTA, May 20, 2008 — An Atlanta police officer was convicted today of lying to authorities in the wake of a botched drug investigation that left a 92-year-old woman dead.
Arthur Tesler, of Acworth, Ga., was indicted by a Fulton County grand jury in April on charges of violation of oath of office by [...]

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LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 20, 2008 — Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is vowing to continue her fight for her party’s nomination after she defeated Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in today’s Kentucky primary.

By Cindy Saine
Voice of America
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2008 — Republican presidential candidate John McCain has attacked Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama on his Cuba policy. Speaking to a friendly Cuban-American audience in Miami, Senator McCain vowed to maintain a strict U.S. economic embargo on Cuba until the communist government grants basic liberties to its people, [...]

By Jim Malone
Voice of America
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama is expected to take a major step toward securing his party’s presidential nomination Tuesday after the results are in from primaries in Kentucky and Oregon.
Senator Obama is counting on a victory in Oregon to give him a majority of what are known as pledged delegates, which [...]