President Barack Obama is standing by his award of the Medal of Honor to a Marine in the Afghanistan war despite a published report charging exaggerations and untruths in the official account of his bravery.
Obama presented the award to Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer on Sept. 15, calling him the "best of a generation" that joined the military after 9/11. He described the day in 2009 when Meyer braved enemy fire in eastern Afghanistan...
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Second Smallest Preemie in the U.S. Could Be Going Home by New Years
Haydee Ibarra, left, holds her 14-week-old daughter, Melinda Star Guido. (Photo: AP/Jae C. Hong)
LOS ANGELES (The Blaze/AP) — Today is Haydee Ibarra due date. But she isn’t visiting the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center to give birth. She has actually been visiting the hospital nearly every day to visit her daughter Melinda Star Guido...
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