For now, the world has to rely on a small, Georgia-based flight company for Ebola evacuations. The air ambulance operation tasked with rescuing U.S. Ebola victims from West Africa was initially slowed by bureaucratic bungling and is now at risk of being overburdened as thousands of American troops

The State Department on Friday rejected criticisms that too many top diplomatic jobs have gone to political appointees rather than career foreign service officers. “There’s never been a secretary of state more personally connected to the Foreign Service than Secretary (John) Kerry. It’s in his