LAS VEGAS — Agustina Ocampo is the kind of foreign traveler businesses salivate over. The 22-year-old Argentine recently dropped more than $5,000 on food, hotels and clothes in Las Vegas during a trip that also took her to Seattle’s Space ...

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JACKSON, Miss. — The State Department is limiting participation in a troubled exchange program and putting a moratorium on new businesses becoming sponsors for thousands of foreign college students who use the program to visit the United States. The agency ...

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Cal Ripken Jr. aspires to one day become president and CEO of a major league baseball team. For now, the Hall of Fame infielder is satisfied with his current title: U.S. Public Diplomacy Envoy, a position that provides him the ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge dismissed Blackwater founder Erik Prince from a civil lawsuit alleging his former security firm cheated the government in bills it submitted for protecting government employees in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a ruling made public ...

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WASHINGTON — Call it the granddaddy of WikiLeaks. Four decades ago, a young defense analyst leaked a top-secret study packed with damaging revelations about America’s conduct of the Vietnam War. On Monday, that study, dubbed the Pentagon Papers, finally came ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from an American born in Jerusalem over whether he can have Israel listed as his birthplace on his passport even though U.S. policy does not recognize the once-divided city ...

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WASHINGTON — The Army says the intelligence analyst suspected of illegally passing government secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been found competent to stand trial. Army spokesman Gary Tallman says a panel of experts completed its evaluation of Pfc. Bradley ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Government lawyers will be in court Tuesday to defend some of their tactics in a criminal investigation of leaks of secret documents by the WikiLeaks website. Lawyers for three people associated with WikiLeaks — including a member ...

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ADAMSTOWN — State lawmakers from Frederick County are endorsing a former factory site near Adamstown as a training center for U.S. embassy security workers. The county’s delegation to the General Assembly agreed Friday to write a letter supporting Alcoa Inc.’s ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The lawyer for a U.S. Army private suspected of passing thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks says he has asked the government to release his client from a Marine Corps brig due to what he says are needlessly ...

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