A Whole New Cha-Cha: Nancy Grace Goes ‘Dancing With The Stars’

A guppy in a thimble is effectively a whale, and Nancy Grace on Dancing With The Stars is a huge celebrity. Maybe not the kind of huge celebrity you’d normally expect to sign up for a spray tan and a pair of sparkle pants, but someone who has made her own headlines — and not [...]

Moscow, In A Time Of Fear

The novels of Tom Rob Smith are set mostly in the Soviet Union of the 1950s, a time and a place where oppression was palpable and any wrong move could get a person sent to a prison thousands of miles away. Smith’s first thriller, Child 44, was the story of a Soviet security agent whose [...]

Female Vets Navigate Post-War Stress, Home Duties

The first in a series about the challenges female veterans face as they transition to civilian life. America’s female veteran population has grown to an estimated 1.9 million, and the Department of Veterans Affairs projects 50,000 more servicewomen will join that population in the next five years. When they return, many will pick up where [...]

In Irene, Politicians Navigate Tides Of Public Opinion

The effects of Hurricane Irene are still being felt and their costs being measured — from billion-dollar damages in New Jersey to ongoing flooding in New England. For local and national leaders, natural disasters can sometimes be political disasters — or opportunities. The lessons of Hurricane Katrina are seared into the memory of President Obama [...]

Costs Of Irene Add Up As FEMA Runs Out Of Cash

From washed-away roads in North Carolina to historic bridges flooded out in Vermont, Hurricane Irene took its toll up and down the Eastern Seaboard. But the East is not the only region to suffer from natural disasters this year. There was a string of deadly tornadoes in the South this spring, floods along the Mississippi [...]

Immigrant Witness Says U.S. Reneged On Protection

Ten years ago, an Albanian immigrant agreed to help the Justice Department build a case against a mobster accused of human smuggling. In exchange, he says, federal prosecutors promised him a green card and protection for his family. But the mobster fled the country and the informant, Ed Demiraj, says the U.S. government reneged on [...]

Walter Reed Center’s Closure May Be A Boon To D.C.

The Walter Reed Army Medical Center has a storied past. It has been the country’s leading Army hospital for more than 100 years, sitting on a complex that includes a Civil War battlefield. There was a time when 16,000 patients a year sought treatment for wounds of war or illness. By the end of August, [...]

Rick Perry’s Brainpower Questioned; How Smart Should A President Be?

The Politico headline was definitely eye-catching: “Is Rick Perry Dumb?” Twelve years ago if Politico had been around then, it might have asked the same question about another Texas governor who went on to become president, George W. Bush. And that, of course, is one of the uncanny things about Perry’s ascendancy to frontrunner among [...]

Libya’s Ex-Prisoners Finding Their Way Home

In Libya, thousands of rebel fighters and political prisoners freed from Moammar Gadhafi’s notorious prisons are making their way home. But tens of thousands more are still missing. Anxious relatives and friends in the eastern city of Benghazi have flooded the airport and docks night after night in hopes of finding their loved ones arriving [...]

Wiretapping Scandal Shakes Colombia

In Colombia, a major scandal involving the country’s intelligence service is unfolding. Colombia’s chief prosecutor says the spy service bugged the Supreme Court, intercepted the phones of its justices and followed their every move. Prosecutors also say the illegal surveillance was directed from the offices of former President Alvaro Uribe, who in his eight years [...]