PENTAGON CHIEF IN RARE VISIT TO NUKE MISSILE BASE
By ROBERT BURNSU.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel talks with retired Army Col. Rebecca Hooper, program manager for the Center for the Intrepid, after Hagel spoke to soldiers, veterans and…
Military and defense
OBAMA PONDERS LIMITING NSA ACCESS TO PHONE RECORDS
By JULIE PACE FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the…
CZECHS HONOR ARMY DOG FOR AFGHANISTAN SERVICE
Four-year-old Czech military dog Athos who was seriously wounded in a Taliban rocket attack in Afghanistan in 2012 sits with dog handler Rostislav Bartoncik after being decorated by Czech Defence…
HOTLINES MARK RETURN OF EGYPT’S SECURITY AGENCIES
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this file photo taken Saturday, March 5, 2011, an Egyptian man, right, carries a sign that reads in Arabic: “Arab Republic of Egypt,…
RAPID FALL FOR ARMY GENERAL ACC– USED OF SEX CRIMES
By MICHAEL BIESECKER FILE – In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, file photo, Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair leaves a Fort Bragg, N.C., courthouse after he deferred entering a…
US ‘LOST BOY’ AMONG MANY FLEEING S SUDAN VIOLENCE
By BEN CURTIS In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, Phillip Madol, 33, left, one of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in…
2 NEWSPAPERS CALL FOR CLEMENCY FOR EDWARD SNOWDEN
By RAPHAEL SATTER within a few hours of one another, but Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said the papers’ appeals weren’t coordinated ahead of time. “Complete coincidence,” he said in an…
PAKISTAN’S MUSHARRAF NO SHOW IN COURT; BOMB FOUND
By REBECCA SANTANA A Pakistani female police officer stands alert outside a court set up for the trial of Pakistan’s former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad, Pakistan,…