The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be “hard days ahead,” President Barack Obama said Sunday as alliance leaders insisted the fighting coalition will remain effective despite France’s plans to yank combat troops out early.
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Obama: NATO shifting to help peace in Afghanistan
Max Scherzer struck out 15 — the most by a Detroit pitcher in 40 years — and the Tigers rallied for him with three runs in the seventh inning to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Sunday.
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Max Scherzer’s 15 Ks help Tigers beat Pirates 4-3
Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, canceling tourist cruises, producing showers along the coast and serving as a reminder that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner.
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Tropical Storm Alberto hovers off Carolina coast
Profiles of Egypt’s main presidential candidates:
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Profiles of Egypt’s main presidential candidates
The nation called Ed Ray a hero when he led a terrified group of children to safety after they were kidnapped aboard their school bus and held underground for ransom in the summer of 1976.
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Driver who was hero in ’76 Calif. bus kidnap dies
The two sides of Mary Richardson Kennedy’s grieving family faced off in court Friday, just hours before a planned wake for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s estranged wife, as a relative described a long fight with psychiatric illness that ended in suicide.
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Mary Kennedy services planned amid apparent rift
Even the wind cooperated Friday at this normally blustery naval station, remaining calm as David Beckham lit a celebratory cauldron and signaled the start of the 2012 London Olympics torch relay.
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Olympic flame arrives in Britain
One good thing about losing the Kentucky Derby is that nobody wants much of your time for two solid weeks.
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Column: Baffert’s silence could speak volumes
Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don’t yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.
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Scientists hunt ways to stall Alzheimer’s earlier
Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don’t yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.
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Scientists hunt ways to stall Alzheimer’s earlier