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Kristin M. Hall

Army tests body armor tailored for female soldiers

Kristin M. Hall

In this Sept. 2, 2010 photo, a U.S. Marine, left, Flight Medic Staff Sgt. Richard Jarrett, second from right, and Crew Chief Spc. Bryan Channon, of Okla., help U.S. Marine Pfc. Justin Turner, center, of Flower Mound, Texas, who was wounded in an IED attack, aboard a U.S. Army Task Force Shadow medevac helicopter, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

101st Airborne starts coming home after deadly tour

Kristin M. Hall

** CORRECTS BOYS AGE IN LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION ** In this image taken from Rossia 1 television channel TV, 7-year-old adopted Russian boy Artyom Savelyev gets into a minivan outside a police department office in Moscow, Thursday, April 8, 2010. Russia should freeze all child adoptions with U.S. families, the country's foreign minister urged Friday after an American woman allegedly put her 8-year-old adopted Russian son on a one-way flight back to his homeland. Artyom Savelyev arrived in Moscow unaccompanied Thursday on a United Airlines flight from Washington, the Kremlin children's rights office said Friday April 9.(AP Photo/Rossia 1 Television Channel)** TV OUT ** (AP)

Law murky for mom who returned adopted Russian boy

Nataliya Vasilyeva, Kristin M. Hall

Top Russian official demands freeze on U.S. adoptions

Nataliya Vasilyeva, Kristin M. Hall