- US Marines are bringing in emergency aid to the Philippines to help survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan, government officials are now saying the death toll could be 10,000 or more.
- Some 40 years after the end of the Vietnam War, some US veterans are returning to the country to volunteer or just to revisit, tourism is at an all-time high.
- Congress is moving ahead with a Senate vote to rewrite the US military's sexual assault policy as early as this week, ahead of Pentagon recommendations.
- The US Navy has turned over the nation's first supercarrier to be scrapped, the USS Forrestal was launched in 1954 and its decommissioning cost: $2 billion.
- The Navy is also looking into new coveralls that don't burn nearly as much when they catch on fire, in a relief to sailors everywhere.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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