American Heroes

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, in Twentynine Palms, Calif., is a dusty, windswept installation high in the Mojave Desert. It is the world’s largest U.S. Marine base, even though it is more…

My heart is pounding like the rain. How can I help these people? The best thing I can do is tell the story to you.

The stakes here in eastern Congo are high – and there's more than power to be had.

America's new president is a cause for celebration in Ethiopia.

WASHINGTON — Now that the festivities are over, it is time for the masters of the media to stop asking inane questions of the new folks in town — such as, “How do you like your new office?” — and for the Obama…

WASHINGTON — With all the preparations for the biggest, most expensive and most restrictive inaugural celebration in history, this is probably not the time to remind our president-elect of things he said and wrote,…

The Somali pirates that hijacked the M/V Sirius Star received a 3 million dollar ransom last week, after holding the ship and its crew hostage for nearly two months.

WASHINGTON — During the course of the past two months, President-elect Barack Obama and the presidential transition team have replaced their campaign maxim, “Change We Can Believe In,” with a new mantra: “We Only Have…

You don't hear much about U.S. Navy warships patrolling in the Arabian sea, partly because it's almost impossible to get an embed with them – I know, I'm on a six-month waiting list to do just that.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Robert Burns penned “Auld Lang Syne” in 1788 and set the poem to the melody of an old Scottish folk tune, he certainly didn’t know that it would become the ballad for New Year’s Eve…