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Politicians were tripping over themselves to call for the Confederate flag to be taken down in the wake of the Charleston shootings. But new polling has found Americans weren't quite so decisive.

Politicians were tripping over themselves to call for the Confederate flag to be taken down in the wake of the Charleston shootings. But new polling has found Americans weren't quite so decisive.

In the U.S., particularly since the Civil War, when soldiers leading troops into battle were shot out from under the banners they carried, flags have come to embody ideology and stir passions in ways that have few modern international equivalents, experts say.

How is Islamic State different from al- Qaida? According to the U.S. Department of Justice, one answer lies in a much more relaxed attitude to recruitment and targets.

At the event, dogs were evaluated based upon four tests of skill: obedience, agility, search and protection. The competition, which yielded a large group of spectators, erased the common myths and misconceptions surrounding service dog work.

As the men of 1776 approached their fateful break from Britain, they argued over the proper orienting ideal for government: property or happiness? When it came to the Declaration of Independence itself, happiness won.

The inner circle of founders has been set for as long as anyone can remember - Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Hamilton and Madison.

Russia will consider new selective retaliatory measures against some specific Western countries, the nation's security chief said Friday, pointing at Finland as a possible target.

Islamic State group militants have destroyed six archaeological pieces from the historic town of Palmyra that were confiscated from a smuggler, the group said.

Islamic militants and rebels in Syria launched fresh attacks on government-held neighborhoods in Aleppo on Friday, setting off some of the heaviest fighting in months in the contested northern city, activists and state media said.

Water levels on the Euphrates River that flows 1,700 miles from eastern Turkey through Syria and Iraq past ancient Mesopotamian lands have fallen more than half this year, withering farmers' crops and raising the risk of a wider regional conflict, Iraqi officials say.

North Korea has informed Japan that it will postpone its report on the investigation into Japanese abductees that it launched a year ago, the government said Friday.

Here in acid-free, low humidity stacks are 13 million pages of the personal letters and diaries of men and women who helped create the world we live in. The items are sacred.

He was the most successful and valued agent the United States had run inside the Soviet Union in two decades. His documents and drawings had unlocked the secrets of Soviet radars and weapons research years into the future. He had smuggled circuit boards and blueprints. His espionage put the United States in position to dominate the skies and confirmed the vulnerability of Soviet air defenses. And he had vanished.

Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with red-tiled roofs in a Spanish mission style overlooks the tiny town of Hot Springs, South Dakota, and has provided recovering soldiers a bucolic haven for more than a century.

Bryan Scott Wolfinger, 25, was charged early this morning with going armed to the terror of the public. He told police he was preparing to have photographs taken with military equipment when 911 calls sent Fayetteville police to the mall.

The Navy EA-6B Prowler has made its final flight. The aircraft was retired last week after 45 years of service.

Stuck under the battlefields near Cantigny, France, soldiers from the U.S. 1st Division took to the cavern walls to relieve what must have been terror and boredom. One sentiment carved in the rock is as timeless as it is plain: “U.S. Forever.”

Drive down any city street in Kabul and you’re likely to run into two things: heavy traffic and a sea of Toyota Corollas, many of them sporting decals such as “Corolla Road Rage” or “Mad Max Corolla.”

Pima Community College has settled a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of an Arizona National Guard soldier who was denied a promotion in the college's public safety department.

The brief but intense campaign in Greece's critical bailout referendum ends Friday, with simultaneous rallies in Athens for "Yes" and "No" supporters in what an opinion poll shows will be a very close race.

Palestinian Authority forces arrested over 100 Hamas members in the West Bank who were planning on carrying out attacks, a Palestinian official said, in the biggest raid of its kind in years.

A man who was found guilty of lying about his participation in war crimes that occurred during the 1992 Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict will receive a new trial.

Athletic shoe company New Balance thinks the U.S. military is dragging its feet.

The Center for Initial Military Training at Fort Eustis, Va., is known as the Army's front door. It is the core function of the Training and Doctrine Command, which oversees all Army training and future planning.