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Former Alabama GOP Senate candidate Mike Durant says he won't vote for runoff contenders Mo Brooks or Katie Britt: 'Bad people won'
"Katie Britt doesn't deserve to be a senator," Durant told 1819 News. "Mo Brooks has been in politi…
John L. Dorman
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Ex-GOP lawmaker says some of his colleagues expected 'shootouts in the streets' when they visited Mexico: 'Like Black Hawk Down'
In reality, US border towns are often safer than similarly-sized cities elsewhere in the US.
Brent D. Griffiths,John L. Do…
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With new medals 30 years after 'Black Hawk Down,' members of Army's secretive Delta Force say they're the 'same deadly fighting machine'
"I guess it's something that the task force's fighting spirit is universally recognized after so ma…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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3 movies that the US Army's elite Green Berets say actually show what their jobs are like
Current and former Green Berets told Insider which movies they thought really reflected the Army Sp…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Another helicopter went down on a US special-ops raid. Here's how elite aviators prepare for that worst-case scenario.
For the Night Stalkers, the risk of a crash is omnipresent during these kinds of operations, but th…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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The US Army is upgrading the awards of 60 special operators for heroism during the 'Black Hawk Down' incident
When two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in Somalia in 1993, US forces quickly found themselv…
Ryan Pickrell
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Maya Hawke danced down the Cannes red carpet in a colorful Prada gown with British actor Rupert Friend
Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend attended the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday in support of their new f…
Amanda Krause
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US Navy aircraft carrier to be broken down for just a cent arrives at scrapyard after 16,000-mile final voyage
The warship served for nearly 50 years and spent more than a decade in mothballs before the Navy ma…
Ryan Pickrell
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NATO helicopters are shooting down and eliminating enemy drones in a rarer kind of Red Sea battle
A former US naval aviator told Business Insider that allied helicopter wins against drones in the R…
Jake Epstein
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Police are investigating how the gravestone of Medal of Honor recipient Gary Gordon received these mysterious markings
US Army Master Sgt. Gary Gordon's heroic actions were portrayed in the war movie "Black Hawk Down."
David Choi
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The Army's 101st Airborne teamed up with Greek special operators for a first-of-its-kind island-assault exercise
During the exercise, US helicopters supported Greek special operations forces on objectives only ac…
Staff Sgt. Garrett Dipuma, US…
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Meet the Army's 'Night Stalkers,' the special-operations pilots who can fly anything anywhere in the world
The Night Stalkers will take you anywhere in the world whenever you need to be there — plus or minu…
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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'The Northman' director Robert Eggers reveals how he got Björk back into acting and convinced Ethan Hawke to bark like a dog for the Viking epic
The director also told Insider how Anya Taylor-Joy's character had to be changed due to shooting du…
Jason Guerrasio
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3 National Guard members were killed in the second deadly Black Hawk helicopter crash in less than a month
The latest tragic helicopter crash follows another fatal crash that killed three National Guard sol…
Ryan Pickrell
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Black buzzards are circling New York City in sightings that 'would have been unheard of' 30 years ago, ornithologists say
Andrew Farnsworth, a researcher at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology, told The New York Times…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Watch a Black Hawk helicopter snatch a team of soldiers out of the water in this awesome 360-degree video
The video, taken by members of the Army's 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, shows a UH-60 Black Hawk he…
Ryan Pickrell
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The 'Black Hawk Down' Mission Happened 21 Years Ago - This Was The 'Catastrophic Impact' That Kicked Off The Two Day Battle
The storied helicopter crash was relegated to fiction movies and books, only witnessed by the soldi…
Paul Szoldra,Geoffrey Ingerso…
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Trump calls the Black Lives Matter mural to be painted outside Trump Tower a 'symbol of hate'
The president also slammed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's decision to reallocate $1 billion o…
Eliza Relman
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Video shows a military helicopter performing a low-flying show of force during protests in Washington, DC
New York Times reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs said the aircraft was performing a "show of force," whic…
Rosie Perper
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Chinese shoppers sent in so many preorders for the country's version of Black Friday they crashed online shopping app Taobao
The mass preorder event was held on Taobao on October 20, in the run up to the 11.11 Singles Day Sh…