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US, Chinese sailors participate in anti-piracy exercise In what could potentially be a small-scale rehearsal for the large scale RIMPAC 2014 exercise, U.S. and Chinese naval forces conducted a joint weekend counter-piracy exercise in the Gulf of Aden.   Injured in Afghanistan, now US Open ballperson This week, Angelo Anderson will do far more than walk at the U.S. Open - just over three years and hundreds of hours of physical therapy since the Navy corpsman was shot. Anderson will sprint across the court on that titanium rod that runs from his knee to his hip.   CIA: Most UFO sightings in 50s, 60s were of spy planes A recently declassified CIA report on the development of the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes said the high-flying jets were mistaken for UFOs more than half the time in the late 1950s and 1960s during Project Blue Book, a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base operation that investigated reports of UFOs. But not everyone is convinced.   US official: chemical weapons likely used in Syria There is "very little doubt" that a chemical weapon was used by the Syria against civilians in an incident that killed at least 100 people last week, but President Barack Obama has not yet decided how to respond, a senior administration official said Sunday.   For Obama, world looks far different than expected Nearly five years into his presidency, Barack Obama confronts a world far different from what he envisioned when he first took office. In some cases, the current climate has been driven by factors outside the White House's control. But missteps by the president also are to blame, say foreign policy analysts, including some who worked for the Obama administration.   Military removes commander of nuclear weapons unit The Air Force has removed the commander of a nuclear weapons unit at a Montana base following a failed safety and security inspection that marked the second major misstep this year for one of the military's most sensitive missions.   Fort Hood shooter received glowing evaluations before attack Months before the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, the Army psychiatrist convicted Friday of killing 13 and wounding more than 30 was completing a fellowship at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where military supervisors praised his unique interest in Islam’s effect on soldiers, according to documents provided to the Los Angeles Times.   Risk a fact of life for Coast Guard amid evolving procedures, technology When the call comes in, as it did on a frigid April morning, rescue crews from Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay are expected to be ready and underway within a half-hour.   Woman left family to serve as Iraqi translator for US, still fears for life Sali Sadhi loved Saddam Hussein as a family friend, but she hated what his brutal regime did to her country.