AP - Ground combat in the 1991 Persian Gulf War lasted just 100 hours, but it's meant 17 years of pain and anguish for hundreds of thousands of veterans.

Bloomberg - Dec. 1 -- President-elect Barack Obama will unveil a national-security team today headed by a former rival who once called him ``naïve,'' a Bush administration holdover and a retired Marine general who appeared with Republican presidential nominee John McCain on the campaign trail.