Five presidents gather for first time in four years
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Pentagon Medics Weigh in on the “Signature Scars of a Long War”
Sometimes, the doctors will tell you what the politicians won’t.
That’s the bottom line in a new Pentagon assessment of the human costs of the nation’s post-9/11 wars, which shows mental casualties growing far more …
Racketeering, Smuggling, Sex with Guards: 25 Indicted in Massive Baltimore Prison Scandal
Twenty-five people, including 13 guards, have been busted in a scandal featuring everything from racketeering to smuggling to an inmate impregnating female prison officers.
“So we're kind of in an Orwellian situation here. All of us decry the effects of sequestration, and there's graphic testimony such has just been presented, and yet there's no request on the part of the President of the United States or the secretary of defense that we repeal sequester.”
— Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., at an armed services committee hearing into the Army budget Tuesday.
Manhattan Fantasy: The Woolworth Building at 100
One hundred years ago a new kind of building was born in New York: a skyscraper evincing the gravitas of a cathedral and the playful irreverence of a child’s castle
What Can We Do to Help?
Part 3 of 3: What the rest of us can do to help
Over the past two days, we’ve detailed how and why the Department of Veterans Affairs’ disability-claims backlog came to be, and what the government is doing about it.
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2013 Gas Prices: Even Less Predictable Than Usual
What can drivers expect going forward in terms of gas prices? Probably more of the same—meaning more unpredictability, not …
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The Great Wall of Qatar
The U.S. military has been routinely flying warplanes out of Qatar’s al Udied air base, just west of the Gulf state’s capital of Qatar, since 1991’s Persian Gulf War, and running the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq …
Tsarnaev Snafus: Nearly 12 Years After 9/11, Boston Bombings Highlight Intelligence Holes
Senators say “stonewalling” and “stovepipes” blocked information sharing between and within law enforcement and intelligence …
“So, General Wang…About Those North Koreans…”
Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, meets PLA deputy chief Lieut. General Wang Guanzhong in Beijing on Sunday.
Flooding Swamps the Midwest
Torrential rains across the central United States forced the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close about a dozen locks on the Illinois River and the Mississippi Rivers north of St. Louis late last week.
Inside Reddit’s Hunt for the Boston Bombers
Reddit’s frenzy over the marathon bombing wasn’t confined to the Internet — the story of two Redditors who were on the ground in Watertown, Mass.
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