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White House officials say Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been summoned to Washington to explain his controversial comments in a Rolling Stone profile that casts him as a lone wolf on the outs with key figures in the Obama administration.

What does it take to cook dinner for 2,500 sailors on an aircraft carrier? We'll look at the history of cooking in the Navy over the past 200 years and dish out recipes for classic military meals.

At the White House, the president and the oil company's top executives reached an agreement on the escrow fund the administration demanded to compensate victims of the Gulf Coast spill.

President Obama met with BP executives at the White House on Wednesday, a day after he excoriated the petroleum giant in a prime-time address, pledging to make the company pay for the environmental and economic catastrophe caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai addressed a jirga -- a gathering of several hundred tribal leaders -- Sunday in Kandahar, trying to win support for a government and NATO operation there. He called on the leaders to stand with him even if it means sacrifices, and tried to address fears that a planned military operation could mean more civilian casualties.

More than 300,000 international soccer fans are expected to attend the World Cup in South Africa, and some cities are going to great lengths to burnish their images. In Cape Town and elsewhere, officials are arresting and sometimes relocating homeless people.

The military medical system is failing to diagnose tens of thousands of soldiers who suffer brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, an investigation by NPR and ProPublica finds. Brain trauma can cause lasting physical and cognitive damage, but the military continues to overlook the injury, and many soldiers receive little or no treatment.

Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to put on a Washington Nationals uniform and throw his first pitch in a Major League Baseball game Tuesday night. But in the sports media, he's been hyped to a level rarely seen. And at 21, it's hard to say how Strasburg's career will go.

Youngstown, Ohio, has become a symbol of hard times and lost jobs. President Obama visited recently, promoting new jobs from his stimulus bill. But the local economy is still hurting, and people are getting weary. That's bad news for Democrats in Ohio this fall.

What defines a concussion? And, what are the potential effects of repeated concussions on the brain? We speak to a pair of local experts about the long- and short-term effects of concussions, the latest NFL rules changes, and the challenges to identifying when a person has suffered a concussion.