FORT WORTH, Texas -- The drama traditionally has begun a few days before the opening performance of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, when the young competitors first convene in Fort Worth.
At what is known as the draw party, the ...
SEATTLE -- The two had known each other less than three weeks when they found themselves inside helicopters about to land off a Cambodian island, and were easy targets for a firestorm of Khmer Rouge bullets and rocket-propelled grenades.
One ...
WASHINGTON -- Early this year, Leticia Perez and her husband flew here for a whirlwind 48 hours. The couple dined at the Italian Embassy, visited the Lincoln Memorial and joined the crowd on the National Mall watching as President Barack Obama was...
WASHINGTON -- With its neat rows of carpeted cabins, security monitors and on-site hospital and school, the Mrigb al-Fuhud camp in Jordan is opulent compared with the squalid tent cities that house other Syrian refugees.
Humanitarian workers, ...
WASHINGTON -- A funny thing happened on the way to a predicted disaster: The Pentagon is learning to live with the automatic budget cuts its leaders had warned would threaten national security if they took effect.
The change from near-hysteria to...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Leftist rebel Reinel Usuga surrendered this month because he was afraid of dying in battle and being buried in an unmarked grave even as rebel leaders negotiate a possible peace agreement that would make such a death pointless ...