Summary: President Barack Obama’s June 22, 2011 speech to the nation made it abundantly clear that the commander-in-chief is determined to end the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan, irrespective of “conditions on the ground” and without “benchmarks of success” or the other classical wartime caveats and equivocations. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 25, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that legislators or candidates in nearly 20 states were pushing for tougher anti-illegal immigration measures similar to Arizona’s sweeping new immigration law.

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Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 24, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that President Barack Obama said his ouster of the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, would not disrupt his war strategy or timeline for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

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Summary: Four bombs ripped through Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, killing at least 40 people and wounding nearly 100 in the worst violence the Iraqi capital has seen in months. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 23, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that President Barack Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of command in the Afghanistan war, naming Gen. David Petraeus as his replacement.

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Summary: On September 30, 1982, 3-year-old Kevin Jay Ayotte went missing from his family’s summer home in Sugar Bush Township, located in eastern Beltrami County, Minnesota. An exhaustive search and investigation by the Sheriff’s Department, with assistance from state and federal agencies, did not succeed in finding Kevin or even determining the exact nature of his disappearance. … New developments. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will officially launch her campaign for president on Monday, June 27, 2011 in Waterloo, Iowa. … Michele Bachmann’s political resume. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured a prophetic view of BP’s Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil drilling catastrophe from a Christian fundamentalist, conspiracy-theorist perspective.

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Summary: Few Americans took notice as yet another incident in an unending cascade of violence marred post-Saddam Iraq. The blast outside the Diwaniya governor’s house killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 30. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 20, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that suicide bombers in a crowded Baghdad commercial district and in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit killed at least 33 people as insurgents tried to turn a monthslong deadlock over forming a new Iraqi government to their advantage.

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Summary: Father’s Day weekend camping/fishing trip to Father Hennepin State Park, Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 19, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided a photo chronicle of a Father’s Day weekend camping/fishing trip to Father Hennepin State Park, Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota.

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Summary: Eight service members have been killed in a single day in Afghanistan — four in an insurgent attack and four in a vehicle accident, bringing the NATO death toll for June to 38, and 244 killed thus far in 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 18, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Rep. Michele Bachmann attacked President Barack Obama’s proposal for BP to arrange a $20 billion escrow account to pay for damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher and aid spill victims — calling it a “redistribution-of-wealth fund,” warning BP’s chairman not to be an Obama “chump,” and predicting $9-a-gallon gasoline.

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Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense news releases and iCasualties.org. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 16, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the complex nature of the June 13, 2010 attack on Iraq’s central bank suggested that al-Qaida in Iraq’s new leadership was taking cues from the Taliban’s success with similar operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Summary: Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s reluctance to go toe-to-toe with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the CNN-hosted GOP presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on June 13, 2011 is consistent with his personality profile. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on June 16, 2010, Aubrey Immelman chronicled the rise of right-wing extremism in America following the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States in November 2008, reporting that the growing fear among some citizens of losing their rights and freedoms had created a political backlash toward the U.S. government that was manifesting itself in violent rhetoric and anti-government groups who want to “take their country back.”

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