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Even billionaires get fed handouts 

More than 50 American billionaires have received government farm handouts in recent years from a program created to help struggling small farmers...

Last woman vet from WWI dies 

The last surviving American female veteran of World War I and the oldest woman military veteran died Tuesday. Charlotte Winters, 109, died at a...

A dozen WWI vets soldier on 

Scrawny but determined to fight in World War I, Howard Ramsey scarfed down banana after banana to bulk up enough to enlist. Today, he is still...

Fluffy the war hero loving life in the U.S. 

In war, there are few winners whose lives are changed wholly for the good. Fluffy the "commando dog" is one of them. Malnourished, abused and...

BILL NARROWS BURIAL RIGHTS AT ARLINGTON 

If BTK serial killer Dennis Rader wants to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, there's nothing to stop him.

But that would...

Legion of festivities salute Iwo Jima, WWII's final year 

Sixty years ago, Marines began their historic assault on the island of Iwo Jima, a battle of such ferocity that it left 6,821 Americans dead and...

Nation salutes WWII veterans 

WASHINGTON -- Nearly 60 years after the guns fell silent, the nation Saturday saluted 16 million ordinary Americans who stopped a storm of tyranny...

Early days provided painful combat lessons 

Early in the war in Iraq, the most modern, best-equipped and highly skilled army in the history of the world faced a particularly sobering fact: ...

Rumsfeld balks at adding GIs 

WASHINGTON -- It might be expected that the Pentagon chief would be lobbying Congress to give him more troops, what with the Army being stretched...

More live in freedom, but dictatorships remain 

The year now passing has been a decidedly dismal one for dictators. In 2003, two of the top 10 tyrants listed by human rights groups as the...