NEW YORK — A judge rejected a former U.S. Army soldier's surprise sentencing-day request for a maximum 40-year prison term for trying to help the Islamic State group kill American troops, giving him 14 years behind bars instead. Cole Bridges, 24, of Stow, Ohio, was sentenced Friday after a nearly five-hour Manhattan federal court proceeding in which Bridges, a prosecutor and two of his former commanders told Judge Lewis J. Liman he should get the longest possible prison stint. “Honestly, I do

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