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According to a recent CNN poll 53 percent of the people polled don’t believe the President of the United States is trustworthy. Those who trust Congress are in single digits in some polls.

Although most people don’t like it, and many deny it, it would be tough to make a case that the United States military is not the current world’s police force.

When former Marine Shaun Duling met Bolt, a stray Labrador-shepherd mix, the little fella was skittish and hungry. Duling was doing contract work in Afghanistan with a German military unit, and while the Germans had adopted Bolt's sister as their mascot, the less-outgoing Bolt was mostly ignored.

August was officially the deadliest month for US troops fighting in the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon has released the names of 30 American troops who were killed when a rocket-propelled grenade downed their Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan last weekend The attack represented the biggest single day loss of military personnel America has suffered during the nearly ten-year Afghanistan war.  Overall, 1648 Americans have died in the conflict.

A soldier from Great  Falls was reported deceased while serving in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense announced on Friday that Specialist Jonathan Pilgeram, 22, died on February 17th while serving in Konar Province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.