Lucille “Cille” MacDonald, who this spring was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for her “Rosie the Riveter” work as a ship welder during World War II, died last week in Hawaii. She was 98.

Arthur Frommer’s first guidebooks for American soldiers overseas, distributed by Stars and Stripes, were such a hit that he launched “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day,” guidebooks that revolutionized leisure travel by convincing average Americans to take budget vacations abroad.

The older sister of Daniel Penny, the former U.S. Marine charged with fatally choking a homeless man aboard a Manhattan subway, told jurors Monday that her brother was a “calm, soft-spirited person” with a reputation for honesty and integrity.

An officer with Veterans Affairs Police Department used excessive force when he beat an unarmed arrestee with his baton, for 41 seconds, as the man was pinned down by another officer on the campus of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center in January 2022.

Cuba is hemorrhaging people as the economy falters. Now, the country is coming under fresh political pressure as one of the government’s archrivals is poised to start calling foreign-policy shots in Washington.

The potential for a high-profile confrontation between the Pentagon’s two most senior leaders — one a telegenic political appointee, the other a circumspect career soldier — further challenges the military’s fraying status as a trusted, apolitical American institution.

President-elect Donald Trump made a victor’s return to Washington on Wednesday, visiting the White House for a nearly two-hour meeting with President Joe Biden and committing to a straightforward transition of power.

Several local veterans were awarded Quilts of Valor in recognition of their military service on Monday in New Baltimore.

In 1968, while serving on tour in Vietnam, a bullet struck U.S. Marine Private First Class James Ohlheiser and left him partially paralyzed. On Monday, 56 years later, Ohlheiser finally received his Purple Heart Medal.

Presidents believe, understandably, that they were elected to do what they campaigned on. The challenge is that Congress and state governments are full of people who won an election, too. And they often have their own ideas about what their “mandate” is. Postelection politics is about dealing with that reality.