St. Louis has a super-rich history of soccer, so I was very fortunate growing up to have coaches that played.

We like to be kind of at the forefront for how all football federations should treat their female athletes.

The women's national team is a very successful team, and that success has given us a platform to speak on gender equity issues. Millions of young women play soccer in this country, and it's empowering for them to see that our contribution to the game is valued.

In soccer, female athletes across the world wear shoes that are not meant for us, our feet, or our game.

There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.