Summary: Eight U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan when powerful bombs exploded in a field where they were on a foot patrol. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 26, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that the Department of Defense alerted the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 34th Infantry Division, Minnesota Army National Guard, to stand by for deployment to Iraq in summer 2011.

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Summary: U.S. District Judge Larry Burns has ruled that Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old man accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six in a shooting rampage in Arizona, is mentally incompetent to stand trial. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 25, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Summary: Current weather conditions in Minnesota. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 24, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured an investigative report on new developments in the case of missing St. John’s University student Joshua Guimond, by KMSP Fox 9 TV in the Twin Cities. He also reported his analysis, for NPR, of the socio-historic implications of severe economic recession in conjunction with a diminished sense of national potency.

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Summary: At a Lincoln Day Republican fundraiser in Archbold, Ohio, Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann sounded a call to arms, accusing President Obama of betrayal as the first president since 1948 “not to stand with Israel” and saying she was committed to repealing “Obamacare” (which she called “socialism”), 100 percent anti-abortion, and uncompromisingly for marriage between a man and a woman. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 23, 2010, Aubrey Immelman posted a link to the nominating petition to help him gain ballot access as an independent candidate to challenge Rep. Michele Bachmann for her U.S. House of Representatives seat in Minnesota’s 6th Congression District.

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Summary: A severe storm, with several reported tornadoes, roared through the northern Twin Cities metro, ripping apart homes, toppling huge trees, injuring more than 20, and killing one person when a falling tree struck a vehicle. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 22, 2010, Aubrey Immelman appealed to constituents in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District to sign the nominating petition to enable him to get on the ballot as an independent candidate opposing Rep. Michele Bachmann in her bid for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Summary: Harold Camping, the octogenarian multimillionaire preacher who heads the worldwide religious broadcasting network Family Radio, predicted years ago that the End Times — the coming Judgment Day, Armageddon, the Apocalypse, Doomsday, the End of the World — would be revealed today, Saturday, May 21, 2011. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 21, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that a car bomb exploded at an open-air market in the Shiite town of Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, killing 23 people and wounding more than 50.

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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 May 20, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that despite forensic evidence proving that North Korea fired a torpedo that sank the South Korean warship Cheonan, North Korea continued to deny responsibility and threatened “all-out war.” He also featured a psychological evaluation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.

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Summary: Pakistan has witnessed a jump in violence since al-Qaida and its Pakistan Taliban allies threatened to avenge the May 2, 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden, including a twin suicide bombing in Shabqadar that killed more than 80 people, most of them paramilitary recruits, and an attempted bombing of two U.S. consular vehicles in Peshawar. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 19, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Taliban insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn attack on Bagram air base north of Kabul, one day after the deadliest day of the year for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, with seven Americans dead.

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Summary: A leading specialist on al-Qaida, Noman Benotman, says Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian, is acting as interim operational leader of the terrorist organization pending the expected appointment of deputy chief Ayman al-Zawahiri as successor to Osama bin Laden. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 18, 2010, Aubrey Immelman provided his weekly report of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases.

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Summary: As U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann prepares her official announcement that she’s running for president, here’s a rundown of her ugly track record of extremist rhetoric, incendiary demagoguery, and political paranoia, catalogued and documented since Bachmann’s 2008 reelection to the United States House of Representatives in Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, and demonstrating that Michele Bachmann, in essence, is not merely gaffe-prone and is more than just a flake. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on May 17, 2010, Aubrey Immelman reported that Washington D.C. political handicapper CQ Politics, in its district-by-district congressional race ratings for the 2010 midterm election, reclassified Minnesota’s 6th District from “Leans Republican” to “Likely Republican” — reflecting an increasing likelihood that incumbent Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann would be reelected for a third term.

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