Click on photo to enlarge or download: President Bush breaks ground on the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., with Army Staff Sgt. John Borders, left, and U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Ray Baronie. SHWire photo by Jackie BestBETHESDA, Md. - Defense Department officials, ..

WASHINGTON - For now, George Hoffer is used to flying a lot. He and his 26-year-old son have been traveling to baseball games and NCAA tournaments across the country since his son was in middle school. Usually, they fly - they've flown into about 60 airports. It's a common, modern mode of ..

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WASHINGTON - The National Education Association, the largest teacher's union in the country, attacked the "fundamentally flawed" No Child Left Behind Act Wednesday at the unveiling of its education reform plan. "No Child Left Behind demanded outcomes and promised resources to ..

WASHINGTON ­- Cheatcodes.com claims to have "more cheats than anyone on the planet." Gamespot.com offers 44 cheat codes for the game "Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories," and a Google search on video game cheat codes turns up at least 700,000 results.

Click on photo to enlarge or download: National Geographic Kids magazine set a Guinness World Record for the longest chain of shoes with 10,512 shoes, lined up toe to heal in the National Geographic Society courtyard. SHWire photo by Jackie BestWASHINGTON - The largest number of dirty old sneakers ..

WASHINGTON - Donald Segretti says there's no second place in politics. Candidates either win or lose. And, sometimes, dirty tricks play a part. Segretti, a political operative for the Committee to Re-elect the President during Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign, had a role in the ..

WASHINGTON - Girls, women and even middle-aged men waited patiently in the humid hallway of Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. Even in the 90-degree heat and humidity, Washington soccer fans awaited the arrival of David Beckham after the Los Angeles Galaxy lost 4-1 to D.C. United Sunday. The international ..

WASHINGTON - D.C. United forward Luciano Emilio scores goals, and lately he scores more often than not. After starting the season in a slump (just one goal in his first nine games), Emilio found the net nine times in the last six. Two of the goals came in a 4-1 win against David Beckham and the ..

Click on photo to enlarge or download: The Gishwati Forest in Rwanda was still large and dense when this photo was taken in 1978.Click on photo to enlarge or download: This photo, taken in 2006, shows how the forest has almost disappeared because its trees were cut down for fuel, food and medicine.