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Military wives rally around Karilyn Bales

Women are going online to show their compassion for the wife of the Army staff sergeant who has been charged with 17 counts of murder. NBC’s Miguel Almaguer reports.

By Miguel Almaguer and Vivian Kim NBC News

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  RIDGEFIELD — After her children fell asleep, Lori Volkman crept into her basement office, turned on her computer, and wept as …

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12 B2B Facebook Cover Photos to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing

Do you develop solutions to optimize businesses’ presence for demand generation success through all their marketing channels? Do you do something that sounds equally as unsexy and immediately sends your friends into a slumber at cocktail parties?

B2B is sooo boring. Too boring for Facebook, right?

Pshh, no way! B2B marketers have just as many opportunities on Facebook as their B2C …

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How to Use Keyword Tools to Brainstorm Blog Topics [Quick Tip]

There are a ton of ideas out there on how to come up with content inspiration when you’re stuck. But my favorite content trick comes from customer Marcus Sheridan — and it’s so good, even the New York Times approves. 

All you have to do is answer the questions your audience is asking. And how can you do it? One way is through keyword research! You can do this with any keyword …

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11 Clever Ways to Nurture Leads With Your Business Blog

When it comes to the role of business blogging in inbound marketing, there’s no question that it fits quite nicely into the ‘Attract’ stage of the methodology . Because blog content makes excellent social media fodder and is naturally discoverable through search engines, it can be a phenomenal way to attract new visitors and prospects to your website. Furthermore, blogging also plays a …

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7 Marines killed in explosion during training exercise at Army depot in Nevada

A mortar explosion during a live-fire training exercise at an Army ammunitions depot in the Nevada desert has left at least six marines dead and others injured. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports.

Jim Miklaszewski and Erin McClam, NBC News writes

Seven U.S. Marines were killed and at least seven wounded when a mortar exploded during a live-fire training exercise overnight at an …

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The enemy within: Soldier suicides outpaced combat deaths in 2012

Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor writes

More soldiers took their own lives than died in combat during 2012, new Department of Defense figures show. The Army’s suicide rate has climbed by 9 percent since the military branch launched its suicide-prevention campaign in 2009.

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Through November, 177 active-duty soldiers had committed suicide compared to 165 …

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Petite but proven: Two women warriors pass elite Army training course

Jim Miklaszewski, NBC News chief Pentagon correspondent writes

While the Pentagon brass and U.S. military leaders are struggling over how to bring women into ground combat training, two young female soldiers have already proven they’ve got what it takes to join their male counterparts on the battlefield.

1st Lt. Audrey Moton and 2nd Lt. Carley Turnnidge, both West Point graduates, took …

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How to Convert Casual Blog Visitors Into Dedicated Subscribers

You probably know all too well by now that content creation is a very necessary function of successful inbound marketing. And for the inbound marketers who embrace that, a business blog is one of the most reliable and effective platforms for publishing much of the content they create.

But if you’ve been consistently blogging for a while, you probably have all the business blogging …

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Peace-prize winning Pakistani girl on Taliban hit list fights for life after shooting

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Soldiers take Malala Yousafzai, 14, to an army hospital after a gunman attacked her and two other girls in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday.

Amna Nawaz and Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News writes

Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for her work promoting peace, and two other young girls were shot and seriously injured Tuesday, police …

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Peace-prize winning girl shot by Taliban to be sent abroad for treatment, Pakistani president says

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Soldiers take Malala Yousafzai, 14, to an army hospital after a gunman attacked her and two other girls in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday.

Amna Nawaz and Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News writes

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari ordered Tuesday that the young Pakistani activist who was seriously injured in a shooting by the Pakistani Taliban be sent abroad for medical …

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Ex-Navy SEAL faces legal jeopardy for writing about bin Laden raid

The book, which will be released on Sept. 11, provides a first-person account of the May 2011 Osama bin Laden raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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What legal consequences could a former U.S. Navy SEAL face for writing a book about the still-classified 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden?  

Legal experts say the author could face …

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