Think of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp., or JROTC, and the mind conjures a small group of military-minded young men in uniform marching with flags and rifles and practicing drills in the school parking lot. ...more

November 1, 2009

Pakistan's government considered cutting a deal with the opposition Friday to ease a political crisis undermining its shaky one-year rule but stepped up a crackdown on demonstrators converging on the capital for a rally. ...more

March 14, 2009

Chalk up two for the bad guys. ...more

March 11, 2009

The new powers that be in Washington, D.C., can, after all, make a decision that has nothing to do with Guantanamo Bay, the war on terror or the nose-diving world economy. Not even your April tax return. ...more

February 25, 2009

A Guantanamo prisoner who claims he was tortured at a covert CIA site in Morocco returned to Britain a free man today after nearly seven years in U.S. captivity - the first inmate from the U.S. prison camp freed since President Barack Obama took office. ...more

February 23, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army is investigating a stunning number of suicides in January - a count that could surpass all combat deaths on America's two warfronts last month. According to figures obtained by The Associated Press, there were 24 suspected suicides in January, compared to only four in January of 2008, six in January of 2007 and 10 in January of 2006. ...more

February 5, 2009

Pakistan began moving thousands of troops from the Afghan border toward India, officials and witnesses said Friday, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors and possibly undermining the U.S.-backed campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban. ...more

December 27, 2008

PLANT CITY About 60 friends and family members gathered earlier this month to welcome home Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Knight, who spent eight months in Iraq. ...more

December 19, 2008

No city can be prepared for the kind of killers who struck Mumbai over the past three days. About 30 well-armed men carried out coordinated attacks on hospitals, tourist hotels, upscale restaurants, a train station and a Jewish center. ...more

November 29, 2008

When someone says, "...you're wrong..." in response to a letter to the editor, it means two good things: one, that someone read the original letter, and two, has a contrary opinion. ...more

November 18, 2008