Four months after he was ousted by the military, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya reached an agreement with his opponents that could restore him to office and end a political crisis that has roiled the hemisphere, officials said Friday. ...more

October 31, 2009

Taunting the United States on its birthday, North Korea fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan early Saturday in a provocative move that some experts said might have been intended to discourage deployment of new missile defenses against the communist state. ...more

July 5, 2009

The protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are forcing the Obama administration to rethink what for more than two decades has been a central premise of U.S. strategy: that the nation need only prepare to fight two major wars at a time. ...more

March 16, 2009

On this, my Day of Days, I ask myself, What is the importance of a birthday? ...more

January 5, 2009

No city can be prepared for the kind of killers who struck Mumbai over the past three days. About 30 well-armed men carried out coordinated attacks on hospitals, tourist hotels, upscale restaurants, a train station and a Jewish center. ...more

November 29, 2008

The children of Coretta Scott King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. faced off in an Atlanta courtroom Tuesday in a dispute over their mother's personal papers that could derail a lucrative book deal. ...more

October 15, 2008

The American people support more human aid than any other entity on the planet. We show up for every catastrophe worldwide, and we provide protection for many smaller countries at the cost of many American lives and limbs. Why is it that we have developed our assets and technology to such a level that we are ready and willing to do so much for the world? Certainly not by allowing anybody to push us around at will. ...more

July 10, 2008

Caught off guard by recent Iraqi military operations, the United States is using spy satellites that ordinarily are trained on adversaries to monitor the movements of the U.S.-backed Iraqi army, according to current and former U.S. officials. ...more

July 2, 2008

On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "So we had Cheneys on both sides of the family - and we don't even live in West Virginia." His gratuitous insult raises again the question: What's the most scorned minority in America? ...more

June 6, 2008

A group of seven students from River Ridge Middle School will close out their school year on a high note. They will travel to College Park, Md., to take part in an international competition. ...more

May 17, 2008