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Canada: Prime Minister announces ban on assault-style firearms

Canada PM official website One Canadian killed by gun violence is one too many. Violent crimes involving firearms continue to have devastating impacts on communities across the country, and on Canadians who have lost loved ones to these crimes. Events like the recent tragedy in Nova Scotia, the attack in 2017 at the Centre culturel …

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Armed Citizens Protest Lockdown Extension in Michigan,

Demonstrators, some armed, protested Gov Whitmore of Michigan’s extension of the lockdowns after the Republican Legislature refused to extend them. President Trump’s message to the governor was that she should give a little to put out the fire. “These are very good people and they are angry they want their lives to be put back …

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Vancouver Police honor fallen RCMP Constable, Heidi Stevenson

Remembering Constable Heidi Stevenson, Regimental #45161 official Canadian mounted police photo RCMP Constable Heidi Stevenson, who was tragically killed in the line of duty, on April 18, 2020, in the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. 22 Other Canadians were also killed. Remembering Constable Heidi Stevenson, Regimental #45161   April 23, 2020  Dartmouth, Nova Scotia news release On April 19, …

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Call sign Chapo: Piloting the Hawg

A day in the life of an A-10 fighter pilot By Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur, 124th Fighter Wing /  Spend a day flying with Capt. Mike Shufeldt, one of the Idaho National Guard’s A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots, and feel firsthand what it is like to be an A-10 fighter pilot. He gets dressed in his flight …

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Exercise Tiger: Disaster at Slapton Sands 28 April 1944

Exercise Tiger: Disaster at Slapton Sands  28 April 1944  “We sailed along in fatal ignorance,” writes Lieutenant Eugene E. Eckstam, a medical officer aboard the first of two tank landing ships to be sunk by German S-boats off the southern coast of England on the night of 27/28 April 1944. The attack, which happened in the …

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The U.S. Navy in Operations Reckless and Persecution

A Douglas SBD-5 scout bomber en route to strike enemy targets, 21 April 1944. Hollandia air field is directly below, with Sentani airfield in the middle distance and Lake Sentani at top. Wrecked Japanese planes litter Hollandia field, largely the victims of USAAF attacks earlier in the month (80-G-325109). Securing New Guinea: The U.S. Navy …

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Franco-German Operational Police Unit

Franco-German operational unit goes into action The new unit, launched 2019, provides support in policing major events along the border between France and Germany. On the margins of the Franco-German Council of Ministers in Toulouse today, Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer and his French counterpart, Christophe Castaner, signed an administrative agreement creating a …

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NY’s 42nd Infantry Division liberated Dachau 75 years ago

An American Soldier is surrounded by survivors at the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp, April 29, 1945, in Dachau, Germany. American Soldiers of the U.S. 7th Army, including members of the 42nd Infantry and 45th Infantry and 20th Armored Divisions, participated in the camp’s liberation. NY’s 42nd Infantry Division liberated Dachau 75 years ago NY’s …