December 24, 2025

Home at Last: Honoring the Return of a Flying Tiger

Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Morton Sher was killed in action Aug. 20, 1943, when he crashed during a combat mission over Hunan, China, in World War II. Sher’s remains were finally accounted for this summer and returned home.

December 23, 2025

It’s All in the Packaging: The Engineering Behind MRE Freshness

Engineers at the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center’s Combat Feeding Division in Natick, Massachusetts, spend their days focused on improving packaging, which is a crucial part of preserving military food’s freshness and extending shelf-life stability.

December 19, 2025

Moldovan media caught between democracy and Russian interference

The building that houses Moldova’s oldest investigative newspaper, Ziarul de Gardă, founded in 2004, is in a small courtyard near one of the busy thoroughfares in central Chișinău, the capital. Alina Radu, the award-winning newspaper’s director, is busy checking the latest issue that just came out in print. Ziarul de Gardă’s current burning topic has […]

December 17, 2025

NORAD Celebrates 70 Years of Tracking Santa

This Christmas season marks seven decades of the North American Aerospace Defense Command tracking Santa Claus on radar as he flies his reindeer-powered sleigh around the globe.

December 16, 2025

Post-election Cameroon: ‘The regime considers the press to be its last enemy’

In his campaign to win an eighth term, Cameroonian President Paul Biya pledged to “strengthen measures to protect freedom of expression and journalists” in one of Africa’s most dangerous countries for the press. But six journalists who spoke to CPJ after October’s contested election — which opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary claimed to have won, […]

December 16, 2025

High-Tech Helpers: NORAD Volunteers Track Santa’s Journey

Each December, millions of families around the world follow along as Santa Claus makes his Yuletide trek around the globe, but the holiday tradition wouldn’t be possible without the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Santa Tracker.