Forget spending retirement in a rocking chair on the front porch — affluent recent retirees and baby boomers approaching retirement are more likely to travel the world than watch it go by, according ...

Petraeus adviser: Troops could start leaving Iraq if security situation holds. Sept. 7, 2007 — -- A top adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, the chief U.S. commander in Iraq, says the general's ...

As the Obama administration prepares for a promised drawdown of troops in Afghanistan beginning next month, the reduction being weighed within the Pentagon and White House is even larger than had been ...

Reporting from Washington — Declaring that the “tide of war is receding,” President Obama ordered a rapid withdrawal of the 33,000 “surge” troops he sent to Afghanistan and charted a path toward ...

President Barack Obama announced a swift drawdown of US forces from Afghanistan in a nationally televised speech from the East Wing last night. The announcement reflects an abandonment of a ...

A U.S. Marine with Task Force Southwest halts during a security patrol near Bost Airfield, Afghanistan, March 13. (Sgt. Sean J. Berry/Marine Corps) The commanding general of a 300 Marine task force in ...

The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) closed at a record high of 6,144 on Feb. 19. But the benchmark index has since declined by just under 6%, as of Tuesday's close. Concerns about how trade policy will ...