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The dedication of the $60 million expansion of the National World War II Museum was a star-studded red carpet event, with appearances by actors Tom Hanks and Mickey Rooney, among others.

On Nov. 11, the United States commemorates Veterans Day, originally called Armistice Day.

During the First World War, an estimated 45,300 Canadian soldiers gave their lives.

Did you know that most Americans confuse Veterans Day with Memorial Day? Both holidays celebrate our veterans' service, but with one significant difference.

Some Korean War veterans will be getting a special honor this weekend in Kentucky.

As the final votes were being counted, it was possible to draw some lessons from Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in Virginia and the close, three-way governor's race in New Jersey, never mind that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has taken to saying that the elections don't mean much.

"Woodrow Wilson" , By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.

The US is desperate to stop relations between Israel and the Palestinians worsening, writes Con Coughlin .

Throughout the long and divisive debate about health-care reform in the United States, Canada's health-care system has often served as a popular punching bag for both Republicans openly swinging at it and Democrats ducking from any suggestion that Canadian-style reform is in the cards.

Britain's biggest cities, including Leeds and Sheffield, have joined forces to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

The opinions expressed are her own - China has finally given a green light for Disneyland to build a theme park in Shanghai.

In his first year in office, Barack Obama has visited more foreign countries than any other president.

Across Washington, political pros are quietly putting together their report cards on the first year of the Obama presidency.

In 1921, an American Solider- his name "known but to God"- was buried on a Virginia hillside overlooking the Potomac River and the city of Washington.

Tom Hanks is scheduled to be here when the National World War II Museum in New Orleans debuts the war film he produced to immerse audiences with all their senses in key battles.The film "Beyond All Boundaries" will be shown exclusively at the museum's new Victory Theater, which includes elements billed as "4-D" such as wind and shaking seats to ...

Share + Nov 4, 2009 12:00 pm US/Eastern SCARSDALE, N.Y. What's smaller than a couch potato but just as lethargic? A tater tot.

Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday drew a link between extremism and lack of opportunity in the Middle East, telling students in the region that suicide bombers are driven by a feeling they have more to gain in the afterlife than now.

One of the first decisions made by President Obama after he was inaugurated early this year, with his promise of 'change we can believe in,' was to send U.S. military 'drones' into the skies over Pakistan to fire missiles at 'the bad guys.' Recently, in one of those drone attacks, more than 100 civilians living in the city of Peshawar, including ...

The most senior US official to visit Myanmar for nearly a decade and a half met the military-led nation's prime minister Wednesday as Washington seeks to improve ties with the ruling junta.

Former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will face each other in a no-holds-barred debate in New York early next year, the New York Post reports.