NASA's ability to send its astronauts to the $100 billion International Space Station is in danger of becoming a costly casualty of the Russia-Georgia war. ...more

August 15, 2008

When Pia Sundhage became head coach of the U.S. women's soccer team late last year, she serenaded her discouraged players by singing "The Times They Are A Changin'." ...more

August 7, 2008

Time was, a decade ago, the United States, Norway and China dominated women's soccer without challenge. ...more

August 5, 2008

I've demanded it before, to no avail. ...more

August 3, 2008

Fans of Dirk Nowitzki have mounted an Internet campaign they hope will lead to his selection as Germany's flag bearer at the Beijing Olympics. ...more

July 31, 2008

With his moves last week involving Iraq, Iran and North Korea, President Bush accelerated a shift toward centrist foreign policies, a change that has cheered Democrats, angered some Republicans and roiled the presidential campaign. ...more

July 20, 2008

You, Master Rall, either suffer from a hyperinflated ego or are inured by a consumptive cynicism. You blaspheme the service of more than 8,000,000 Americans who served honorably in Vietnam. As I read your warped diatribe, it occurs to me you are among the children we fought for in the steaming undergrowth of Southeast Asia and the frozen wastes of North Korea, not to mention the sands and deprivations of Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

July 19, 2008

North Korea agreed to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear disarmament in a deal reached Saturday at the end of six-nation talks. ...more

July 13, 2008

Pakistan's army under President Pervez Musharraf supervised a shipment of uranium centrifuges to North Korea in 2000, the disgraced architect of Pakistan's atomic weapons program said Friday. ...more

July 5, 2008

President Bush moved Thursday to drop North Korea from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism and lift some trading sanctions after the isolated totalitarian state turned over a long-delayed report that includes details of plutonium production in its nuclear program. ...more

June 27, 2008