D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton wants the U.S. military to display the District's flag during official military ceremonies where other states' flags are flown. 

The U.S. Navy has been readying for the budget cuts that sequestration will bring if it goes into effect later this week. We go beyond the headlines to find out why the cuts will hit this branch of the military so hard, so fast.

The story is a familiar one: a powerful leader felled by a sex scandal, with details straight out of a soap opera. But behind the usual discussions of judgment and ego lie less-examined attitudes about women.

An exploration of the U.S. domestic shale oil boom and geopolitical power.

Service members deployed overseas were popular on Veterans Day, as both a group of young students in Virginia, as well as the Maryland governor, kept in contact on Veterans Day using Skype.

On this observed Veteran's Day, some elementary school students in Alexandria are participating in a time-honored tradition.

Janitors who work at the Walter Reed military medical center in Bethesda say they haven't been paid in two weeks — but they've been hesitant to strike out of concern for the hospital's patients. 

Veterans and their families gathered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial this weekend were touched by the words of U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Rick Shinseki, himself a Vietnam vet, who said that the soldiers in that war all came back changed. 

The Navy has said they are renewing efforts to prevent sexual assaults in their ranks, after two sailors were arrested in Japan on rape charges.

Kojo and veteran military reporter Tom Ricks look at some of U.S. history's top brass, and explore how today's commanders are adapting -- or not -- to the demands of modern warfare.