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"Hundreds" of Islamic State fighters have been killed so far in U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, but killing those terrorists is "not the goal" of the U.S.-led campaign, said Rear Admiral John Kirby.

Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, had raised objections over the lack of a coherent Ebola strategy and insufficient details on protections to keep U.S. military staff from being exposed to the deadly virus.

Edward Snowden's leaks about NSA programs have put U.S. troops at risk and prompted terrorists to change their tactics, according to a Pentagon report. House Intelligence Comm.'s Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MI) said the report found that most documents were related to current U.S. military operations.

A military training manual states, "The ‘Healthy, White, Heterosexual, Christian Male Receives Many Unearned Advantages.’" An instructor who's required to teach this says, “It violates Constitutional principles, but it also violates my conscience.”

The Defense Secretary is prepared “to take further action” if states do not comply.

The Pentagon on Sat. said it would call most of its 350,000 furloughed civilian workers back to their jobs, concluding that a recent law allows officials to consider them critical to protecting national security.