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Navy women’s soccer goalkeeper Elizabeth Hoerner stands in formation before the start of the Army Navy NCAA college football game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in 2014. The U.S. Navy said Tuesday it will let women sailors sport ponytails and other longer hairstyles, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down.

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US Navy now allows women to wear ponytails, lock hairstyles

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressJuly 11, 2018

Generals salute during an installation ceremony at the U.S Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., one the Army’s three major command headquarters. The Army is scouting large cities in 2018 to find a home for a fourth command headquarters, one that would be near experts in technology and innovation who can help focus on the Army’s future. The site is expected to be announced by the end of June.

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Army scouting big cities for new command HQ

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressJune 10, 2018

In this May 24, 2018 photo, Rhode Island State Archivist Ashley Selima points to the seal of King George III on a September 1772 proclamation in Providence, R.I. The document established a commission to investigate the burning of the British schooner HMS Gaspee by colonists in Narraganset Bay in June 1772. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)

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Tempest in a Tea Party: Rhode Island seeks Revolution credit

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressJune 7, 2018

Farmers Sarah Turkus, left, and Dave Kuma, both of Providence, R.I., plant chives on a leased plot of land in Seekonk as Sarah's dog Mabel, a 3-year-old hound mix, greets Dave on April 3.

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Plowing a path: State to buy farms to help new farmers

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressApril 10, 2018

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, Viet Nguyen poses for a portrait on the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I. Nguyen, now an alumnus, helped lead an effort urging Brown and other elite universities to rethink their legacy admissions policies. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Students, alumni challenge legacy preference at top colleges

by Collin Binkley Associated Press, and Jennifer McDermott Associated PressFebruary 14, 2018

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal court in Washington on Dec. 1.

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As Mueller closed in, pressure mounted on Flynn

by Eric Tucker Associated Press, Jennifer McDermott Associated Press, and Michelle R. Smith Associated PressDecember 12, 2017

In this Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 photo textile conservator Kate Tarleton, of Rochester, Mass., stands between two oversized spools holding a portion of the 1848, "Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World," at the museum in New Bedford, Mass. The quarter-mile-long (0.4-kilometer-long) panorama toured the U.S. after it was completed in 1848. . (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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A whale’s tale

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressNovember 24, 2017

Jack Monahan, member of the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, left, views a World War I memorial, which was vandalized about 40 years ago, with Bob Cornett, right, and Edith Fletcher, center, at Miantonomi Memorial Park Tower in Newport, R.I. The tower once featured bronze plaques with the names of WWI soldiers from the area who perished.

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World War I’s neglected monuments getting spruced up

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressOctober 11, 2017

Christopher Del Mastro, head of anti submarine warfare stands next to an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in a lab at the Naval Undersea War Center in Middletown, R.I.

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US Navy leader mulls unmanned vehicles for more power

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressAugust 31, 2017

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 1961 file photo, President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy leave St. Mary's Church in Newport, R.I., after Mass. The Rhode Island church, where the Kennedys wed on Sept. 12, 1953, is inviting visitors in to kneel where the couple knelt, listen to the music that played and imagine the day. (AP Photo/File)

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Kennedy wedding church lets visitors in to imagine the day

by Jennifer McDermott Associated PressJuly 6, 2017