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  1. D-Day spirit of remembrance lives on, despite pandemic
    Yesterday• Military
    Charles Shay, the 96-year-old native American from Indian Island, Maine, salutes during a D-Day ceremony in Carentan, Normandy, Friday, June 4, 2021. In a small Normandy town where paratroopers landed in the early hours of D-Day, applauds broke the silence to honor Charles Shay. He was the only veteran to attend the ceremony in Carentan commemorating the 77th anniversary of the assault that led to the end World War II. Shay was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
  2. Photos: Lightning vs Hurricanes Game 4 at Amalie Arena
    Yesterday• Photos
    Tampa Bay Lightning center Tyler Johnson (9) celebrates with left wing Pat Maroon (14) after Johnson beat Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Petr Mrazek (34) to score his first goal of the playoff during the second period in Game 4 of the second round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Amalie Arena on Saturday, June 5, 2021 in Tampa.
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  3. Netanyahu opponents reach coalition deal to oust Israeli PM
    Jun. 2• Military
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents on Wednesday, June 2, were racing to finalize a coalition government to end his 12-year rule — the longest by any Israeli premier — ahead of a midnight deadline. Centrist Lapid and ultranationalist Naftali Bennett have joined forces and agreed to rotate the premiership between them, with Bennett going first, but are still working to cobble together a ruling coalition that would include parties from across the political spectrum
  5. Iran’s largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman
    Jun. 2• Nation & World
    Crew members prepare to abandon ship as fire sweeps through the Iran navy support vessel Kharg in the Gulf of Oman.
  6. US formally ends policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
    Jun. 1• News
    Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on March 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C..
  7. Tampa Bay men were brothers in arms, but mostly, just brothers
    May 31• Military
    Edward Goldberg, 69, of New Port Richey, comes to Bay Pines National Cemetery for his late brother, Daniel Goldberg (1953-2016), CPL U.S. Marine Corps, on Monday, May 31, 2021 in St. Petersburg.
  8. Vets return to Memorial Day traditions as pandemic eases
    May 30• Military
    Bob Workman of Boston, a retired Marine gunnery sergeant and past commander of the Boston Police VFW, replaces flags Thursday at veteran's graves ahead of Memorial Day.
  9. Biden marks vaccine progress, thanks troops ahead of holiday
    May 29• News
    U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the economy at Cuyahoga Community College Manufacturing Technology Center, on May 27, 2021, in Cleveland, Ohio.
  10. Iran, world powers resume talks on US return to nuclear deal
    May 25• News
    Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi from Argentina, left, leaves after he addressed the media regarding the agency's monitoring of Irans's nuclear energy program at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Monday, May 24, 2021.
  11. US spares ally Germany in sanctions for Nord Stream pipeline
    May 19• News
    In this Jan. 14, 2021, file photo, tugboats get into position on the Russian pipe-laying vessel "Fortuna" in the port of Wismar, Germany. The special vessel is being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. Pressure is growing on President Joe Biden to take action to prevent the completion of a Russian gas pipeline to Europe that many fear will give the Kremlin significant leverage over U.S. partners and allies.
  12. Despite Biden’s call for de-escalation, Israel’s Netanyahu ‘determined’ to continue Gaza operation
    May 19• Nation & World
    People inspect the rubble of destroyed the Abu Hussein building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike early morning, in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 19, 2021.
  13. Israel strikes Gaza home of Hamas leader, destroys Associated Press office
    May 16• Nation & World
    The building housing the offices of The Associated Press and other media in Gaza City collapses after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike Saturday. The attack came roughly an hour after the Israeli military warned people to evacuate the building, which also housed Al-Jazeera and a number of offices and apartments. There was no immediate explanation for why the building was targeted.
  14. “The future of conflict”: how a USF institute is developing military technology
    May 14• Education
    University of South Florida mechanical engineer David D’Angelo, left, and research engineer Yehia Helwa, (both) of Tampa, prepare to install a heatsink module while building a power amplifier used to amplify radio signals with a trio of ARCE-1 (Articulated Reconnaissance and Communications Expedition) CubeSat satellites on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at the USF Institute of Applied Engineering based out of Rithm at Uptown in Tampa.
  15. US trashes unwanted gear in Afghanistan, sells as scrap
    May 10• Nation & World
    An Afghan man looks at a damaged vehicles in Baba Mir's scrapyard outside Bagram Air Base, northwest of the capital Kabul, Afghanistan on May 3. As U.S. troops pack up to leave Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of war, it's trashing tons of equipment and selling it as scrap to local dealers. Afghans are angry that the mountain of supplies and equipment was trashed before being sold to them.
  16. General champions troubled Armenia as member of CentCom Coalition in Tampa
    May 10• Military
    At his home in Tampa on Saturday, Gen. Armen Zakaryan checks a news website from his homeland of Armenia. Zakaryan is serving a three-year stint as his nation's representative with the U.S. Central Command Coalition at MacDill Air Force Base.
  17. Florida dental hygienist on trial in 1984 killing of a Navy recruit
    May 5• Crime
    Thomas Garner of Jacksonville has pleaded not guilty to killing Pamela Cahanes. He was arrested in March 2019 after investigators developed a DNA profile in the cold case
  18. Formal start of final phase of Afghan pullout by US, NATO
    May 1• Military
    Zachary Peterson, of Sharpsburg, Georgia, and other U.S. soldiers from Bravo 3/ 15 Fort Stewart, take part in an overwatch operation in support of Afghan soldiers in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.
  19. Venezuela gives US oilmen house arrest in gesture to Biden
    May 1• News
    Tomeu Vadell, Jose Luis Zambrano, Alirio Zambrano, Jorge Toledo, Gustavo Cardenas and Jose Pereira were hauled away by masked security agents while at a meeting in Caracas just before Thanksgiving in 2017. They had been lured to Venezuela in order to attend a meeting at the headquarters of Citgo’s parent, state-run oil giant PDVSA.
  20. U.S. orders big drawdown at Kabul embassy as troops leave
    Apr. 27• Nation & World
    Zalmay Khalilzad, special envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation, testifies Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing on the Biden administration's Afghanistan policy and plans to withdraw troops after two decades of war.
  21. Pentagon mystery with a Florida connection is solved. Sort of.
    Apr. 24• Military
    After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for why it hired a shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank to manage a colossal, previously idle chunk of the internet that it owns.
  22. Israel says it strikes targets in Syria after missile attack
    Apr. 22• News
    Syria's opposition flag flies on a pole in Tal Abyad, Syria. A missile launched from Syria struck southern Israel early Thursday, setting off air raid sirens near the country’s top-secret nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said.
  23. Black soldier mistreatment common even before Virginia case
    Apr. 21• Nation & World
    Lt. Caron Nazario is helped by an EMT after he was pepper-sprayed by Windsor police during a traffic stop in Windsor, Va.
  24. Biden to Floyd family after verdict: ‘We’re so relieved’
    Apr. 20• Breaking News
    President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Washington. Biden said Tuesday that he is "praying the verdict is the right verdict" in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Dereck Chauvin.
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