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• Neutral 'peace teams' to defuse tension during RNC
  Advocates for non-violence are recruiting volunteers to protect people from getting hurt outside of the the GOP convention.July 17, 2008
• 'The Tragedy of Just War'
  Yale University law professor Stephen Carter appeared at the fourth annual Aspen Ideas Festival to give a talk called "The Tragedy of Just War."Midday, July 16, 2008
• Navy names new attack submarine 'USS Minnesota'
  The third ship in the history of the US Navy to be named the USS Minnesota will be a new nuclear attack submarine.July 15, 2008
• Guard unit returns from Kosovo
  Hundreds of family members and friends gathered at the West St. Paul Armory Thursday afternoon to welcome National Guard soldiers returning from a year in deployment.July 10, 2008
• New questions on U.S. role in Iraq war
  Midday explores the current developments in the war in Iraq, the new debate over a timetable for withdrawal or U.S. troops from Iraq, and a recent U.S. Army report about the failures in the post-invasion plan.Midday, July 10, 2008
• Findings from the National War Powers Commission
  Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and part of the bipartisan National War Powers Commission, joins Midday to talk about the Commission's recent findings about how the President and Congress should work together before the country goes to war.Midday, July 9, 2008
• Minnesota National Guard troops back from Iraq
  155 soldiers from a Minnesota National Guard's 851st Vertical Engineer Company, based in Little Falls, returned to the U.S. from Iraq Monday.July 8, 2008
• The hunt for the elusive Osama bin Laden
  On the anniversary of the July 7, 2005 London terrorist bombings, al-Qaida is relocating its base from Afghanistan to Pakistan, and U.S. counter-terrorism officials disagree about the mission to capture Osama bin Laden and destroy his terrorist network.Midday, July 7, 2008
• Albert Lea-based troops to return home from Kosovo
  A group of Minnesota National Guard soldiers are expected to return home next week from their peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.July 5, 2008
• SD soldier dies from explosion
  A Sioux Falls soldier has died of wounds he suffered in Afghanistan.July 4, 2008
• Missing Minn. Korean War soldier finally laid to rest
  A Minnesota family today will bury a soldier who disappeared nearly 58 years ago, during the Korean War.July 2, 2008
• Family prepares to bury Minn. Korean War soldier
  A Minnesota family is preparing to bury a soldier who went missing nearly 58 years ago during the Korean War.June 28, 2008
• Come one, come all, ye Republican protester
  The protest groups who have reserved march or park permits during the Republican National Convention range from 9/11 conspiracy theorists to folk music loving peaceniks.June 25, 2008
• Violence increases in Afghanistan
  National Public Radio foreign correspondent Ivan Watson joins Midday from Kabul, Afghanistan to answer listener questions about the escalation in U.S., NATO and Afghan government forces fighting with Taliban insurgents.Midday, June 24, 2008
• Iraqi journalist reflects on the war
  Iraqi journalist Ahmed Fadaam began his career after the invasion in 2003, when the art school where he was teaching was destroyed. Fadaam talks about covering the war.Midmorning, June 23, 2008

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