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McGinnis is the fourth service member to received the Medal of Honor for service in Iraq.

The meeting in London was clearly a triumph for the United States. It was George Bush who had called for the NATO summit in the first place. The 16 heads of state followed an American agenda. In both substance and tone, the final communique marked a revolution in the concept of Western security–and most of the major ideas were American as well. While reveling in his position as the still undisputed leader of the Western Alliance, Bush seemed concerned about the reaction in the East....

The owner of Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT), HRH Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim (TMJ) today shed light on the transfer of Mohammed Ghaddar from Kelantan to the reigning Super League champions as well as throwing in a surprise information in an audio clip released on JDT’s social media. TMJ is fully behind the team’s decision to prise Ghaddar away from the Red Warriors and rubbished stories which claimed that the transfer money involved in the deal cost RM5 million....

The Democrats could use an army of Phillip Burtons this year. Forget taxes, recession and the Persian Gulf: the secret obsession of all 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives is reapportionment and redistricting. Though little understood by the voters, this once-in-a-decade process is recognized by political pros as a crucial strategic battle between the parties, second only to presidential elections in shaping the future of national politics. It is a key mechanism for distributing federal power among the states, and it is a life-or-death struggle for many House incumbents....

As they drove around Belgrade’s darkened streets, Legija told him a secret. Milosevic had ordered the Red Berets to crack down, he said. “Huge s–t,” he called it. “The orders are extreme.” Legija had decided to disobey, he said. His police would not help Milosevic stay in power. All he asked in return, as Djindjic later told it, was that the protesters refrain from attacking the police. “I promise,” said Djindjic....

Leonardo Jardim’s team are impressing on the pitch in 2016-17, sitting top of the table and three points clear of reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain. The club, owned by Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev, also have at least one eye on the future, though, and are seeking to take control of the Belgian second-tier outfit. Why we need 48-team Champions League “AS Monaco FC wishes to announce that it has made a purchase offer… to acquire a majority stake in the club Cercle Brugge KSV,” Monaco said in a statement....

Set in the DC Comics universe, the new movie features the voice talents of Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Kate McKinnon and Vanessa Bayer as adorable and super-powered pets. They’re joined by the likes of John Krasinski as Superman, Keanu Reeves as Batman, Jameela Jamil as Wonder Woman and Marc Maron as Lex Luthor. While the star-studded Warner Bros. movie is sure to make an impact at the box office this summer, the origin story for this superhero film comes from a surprisingly earnest place....

Now it’s going to happen. This week Coelho will be sworn into the Brazilian Academy of Letters, an august association of writers, politicians, philosophers, clergy and economists who fancy themselves the guardians of Brazilian culture. For the past 105 years, the Academy has been the bastion of the Portuguese language and a fortress of refined taste and intellectual hauteur. The country’s elite have dreamed, plotted and often brawled for the chance to occupy one of the 40 velvet chairs in the Petit Trianon, the Academy’s mustard-colored neoclassical bunker in downtown Rio de Janeiro....

Landlocked, dirt poor and devastated by civil war, Sudan has never been a priority in Washington. When George W. Bush became president, it was widely assumed that the country’s woes would count for less than ever. Bush had pilloried Bill Clinton for squandering American resources in remote lands with no clear relevance to U.S. vital interests. Nina Shea of Freedom House, a Washington-based human-rights group, describes Sudan as “the perfect example of a situation that candidate Bush indicated the United States would not become involved in....

Lyons can only hope his prayers are answered. The next morning, he sat silently in a Florida courtroom as prosecutors told a jury that the 57-year-old preacher had led a secret double life: Lyons, so respected that admirers sometimes called him ““the black pope,’’ was also, they claimed, a thief and a con artist. In a withering argument, Assistant State Attorney Bob Lewis laid out the theft and racketeering case against him....

Drug prices may be this election year’s hottest issue. Polls routinely show that voters regard escalating drug costs as the most serious problem facing the health-care system, and candidates are responding in kind. Gore and President Clinton are pitching new drug benefits for Medicare recipients. Congressional Republicans–worried about being portrayed by well-organized seniors this fall as heartless conservatives–have also developed plans to ease drug costs. “Their view is that they cannot afford to be against a prescription drug benefit,” said Harvard health-policy analyst Robert Blendon....

The African trip had other moments of carefully scripted spontaneity. There was Charles posing for the cameras at a rock concert as his 13-year-old son, Prince Harry, blissfully held hands with a Spice Girl. Charles at a dinner hosted by President Mandela, praising the charitable contributions of Diana; Charles sharing a few warm words with, of all people, Charles Spencer, Diana’s brother, who had so pointedly criticized the royal family in his eulogy to his sister....

Since chimpanzees are thought to be physiologically close to humans, researchers use them as test subjects for new drugs and vaccines. In the labs, these very sociable creatures often live isolated from one another in 5-by-5-foot cages, where they grow surly and sometimes violent. Dogs, cats and rats are also kept in poor conditions and subjected to painful procedures. Many people would find it hard to sympathize with rats, but dogs and cats are part of our lives....

Hold onto your french fries. No question, the world’s biggest burgermaker has stumbled–repeatedly. But when you deconstruct the McDonald’s-bashing, it turns out to be as much about the critics as it is about the company. Much of the noise is coming from a small cadre of disgruntled franchisees and a few Wall Street types with notoriously short attention spans. Then there’s us–the media. It’s fun to forecast doom and gloom for an icon, especially one so familiar to every reader....

In the Saudis’ case, this growth has expanded beyond the scope of a 123 agreement with the United States, with recent reports surfacing of a previously unknown facility built with Chinese help for the purpose of extracting uranium yellowcake (a first step in acquiring materials needed for a either a power plant or a bomb). The clandestine site, if confirmed, should be of particular concern, as it raises the possibility of a larger hidden program....

There’s another aspect to Cohen’s job: softening Microsoft’s image in a business community that, as testimony in the antitrust trial amply demonstrated, tends to view it as a menacing outsider. In that effort, Cohen got a new weapon last month. Workers moved into the first of five buildings on Microsoft’s gleaming new Silicon Valley campus, a 32-acre plaza in Mountain View, a stone’s throw from traditional Microsoft foes like Netscape and Sun....

The signs are everywhere, from the summer’s sleeper movie hit, “Sleepless in Seattle,” to Gap ads (brooding people in shots so dark you can’t even see the clothes). Bloody-minded movie director Martin Scorsese has fallen into step with “The Age of Innocence,” a period love story starring Daniel Day-Lewis (who, fresh from the even more lushly romantic “The Last of the Mohicans,” is the hands-down favorite as the trend’s poster boy)....

Hey everyone, Just a quick note. I found an opening at the internet cafe so I jumped on it. I am in Kuwait and doing fine. We got here at 326 am and it was 98 degrees. I have sand in every orifice thanks to the storm that came while we were getting our bags. and I saw my first camel outside of the zoo today. Pretty eventful so far....