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By  MORGAN LEE The Pentagon says it will require credentialed journalists at the military headquarters to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been authorized for release — including unclassified information. Journalists who don’t abide by the…

By  DAVID FISCHER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Ryan Routh texted his three adult children and his fiancee separately to tell them he loved them, according to cellphone records, shortly before authorities say he was spotted by a U.S. Secret Service…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The Army has released the names of four soldiers killed Wednesday when the military helicopter they were on crashed near a base in Washington state. The victims are chief warrant officers Andrew Cully and Andrew Kraus, and sergeants…

By  KAREL JANICEK PRAGUE (AP) — Unknown musings of the founding father of an independent Czechoslovakia, its first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, are believed to have been unearthed. An envelope, whose existence was unknown to living members of the family, was…

By  MARK THIESSEN ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as Fat…

By  ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have discovered what’s thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to 12,000 years. Mummification prevents decay by preserving dead bodies. The process can happen naturally…

By  TODD RICHMOND MADISON, Wis. (AP) — After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a “ghost ship” that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline. The…

By  CAROLYN THOMPSON Later this year, the National Toy Hall of Fame could induct snow — yes, the cold, white stuff that falls from the sky. But only if it ices out enough of the competition — a group that features…

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Divers have recovered artifacts from the Titanic’s sister ship, the Britannic, for the first time since the ocean liner sank in the Aegean Sea more than a century ago after striking a mine during World War I. The Culture…