Hear Romney and Obama speeches to VFW President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, former Gov. Mitt Romney, gave foreign policy speeches this week to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev. Hear both speeches in their entirety on MPR News Presents.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, July 25, 2012
50 Minn. soldiers going to Afghanistan More than 200 people turned out in St. Cloud to end off about 50 soldiers who are deploying to Afghanistan.July 21, 2012
The Week in Commentary A summary of this week's commentaries and some of the comments we received in response.July 21, 2012
MnDOT places new US flags on bridges Minnesota transportation officials have installed their own U.S. flags on highway overpasses in the northwest Twin Cities.July 20, 2012
A National Guard family's homecoming continues For nearly 3,000 Minnesota National Guard soldiers who returned from the Middle East in May, it's been a summer back at home, working and enjoying time with family and friends. The 34th Infantry Division Red Bulls were stationed in Kuwait assisting with the U.S. military drawdown from Iraq. Capt. Freddy Munoz is back from his second deployment.July 20, 2012
Minn. man tells of refugees caught in middle of Congo conflict Another refugee crisis is arising in Africa -- in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This week, the United Nations Security Council condemned attacks by rebel forces in the eastern part of Congo, along the borders with Rwanda and Uganda in central Africa. A Minnesota man recently returned from the Congo and tells MPR's Tom Crann what he saw there.July 18, 2012
US military Afghanistan deaths: 1,910 As of Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at least 1,910 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.July 17, 2012
Should America bring back a wartime draft? Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander of international forces in Afghanistan, recently said that America should bring back the draft if it ever goes to war again. What would this change mean for the United States?The Daily Circuit, July 16, 2012
Letters of SC soldier killed in Vietnam come home Four letters from a courageous South Carolina soldier who tried to tell his family about the fearsome battles that raged around him in Vietnam were returned to his family Saturday, some 40 years after he was killed.July 14, 2012
Sexual assault in the U.S. military There were more than 19,000 rapes or sexual assaults in all military branches in 2010, according to an estimate from the U.S. Department of Defense. What is being done to prevent sexual assaults in the military?The Daily Circuit, July 10, 2012
'Lost Boys' help build library in Sudan The work of two Sudanese war refugees to establish a library in their homeland, along with their Minnesota and North Dakota supporters, is paying off.July 6, 2012
What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July? More than 10 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, the Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass delivered an Independence Day speech that remains famous to this day.July 4, 2012