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Diverse America divided on flag, anthem, other symbols

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The oldest Latino civil rights group in the United States opens every meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance, a tradition resulting…

The few, the proud, the fit: Women strive for combat jobs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after the Pentagon ordered all combat jobs open to women, seven female Marines are either serving in those posts or…

Despite Paris, Obama rejects calls for shift in ISIS fight

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday firmly rejected calls for a shift in U.S. strategy against the Islamic State following the Paris…

Cheating website subscribers included WH, Congress workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of U.S. government employees — including some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and law enforcement agencies — used…

Suicide attempts most common in newer soldiers, study found

CHICAGO (AP) _ War-time suicide attempts in the Army are most common in newer enlisted soldiers who have not been deployed, while officers are less…

Coast Guard Academy struggles to attract African-Americans

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ The new superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy says its students are smart, energetic, enthusiastic _ and in some ways very…

Black and Jewish WWI heroes finally getting Medal of Honor

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor Tuesday to two World War I Army soldiers who may have been denied the…

Shooting drew together ordinary lives of driver, officer

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — But for a series of split-second decisions that followed a traffic stop, Walter Scott might still be alive and police…

How Obama decided on airstrikes in Iraq

WASHINGTON (AP) — For much of the summer, President Barack Obama had watched with alarm as a brutal, al-Qaida-linked insurgency seized more and more territory…

Obama: Congress consulted on prisoner exchange

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his decision to release five Afghan detainees from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for an American…

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