Lincoln’s hometown re-enacts his funeral
150 years have passed since slaying
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
For last 100 years, celebrities urge animal kindness
LOS ANGELES – These days, people pay piles of cash to pamper their pets, but problems remain on the farm and in the slaughterhouse, on movie sets and at animal shelters – even in the wild. ...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Native Americans offended by Pope
Sainthood of contentious 18th-century Spaniard at issue
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Nation & World Briefs
Nepalese villagers: ‘WE NEED HELP’
PAUWATHOK, Nepal – At the entrance of this destroyed mountain village, a wooden sign stands, cobbled together from debris of homes flattened by ...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Protesters, family celebrate criminal charges filed
6 Baltimore police officers involved in black man’s death are suspended
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Forty years later, Vietnam veterans still search for lost loves
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – The girls walk up and down the bar-lined street in Ho Chi Minh City, enticing male tourists to come in, come in, sit down, have a drink.
Next door to t...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Vietnam War 40 years on, enemies now friends but still pain
The day was full of panic, chaos and defeat
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Legacies of war: Forty years after the fall of Saigon, soldiers' children are still left behind
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Vo Huu Nhan was in his vegetable boat in the floating markets of the Mekong Delta when his phone rang. The caller from the United States had stunning news – a DNA...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Former enemies recall Vietnam War's end with eyes on future
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Vietnam’s Communist leaders commemorated the 40th anniversary of the end of their war against the United States Thursday with red-flag pageantry as the two countr...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. vets come to Vietnam to confront past, and find a home
DANANG, Vietnam – When Richard Parker left Vietnam in 1970, he planned to leave his memories of napalm attacks firmly in the past. Instead, as time marched on, they haunted him.
“...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Vietnamese-Americans recall losses, gains since Saigon fell
SANTA ANA, Calif. – In the chaotic final days before the Vietnam she knew collapsed in 1975, Bang Van Pham was rushed onto a U.S. military plane with her newborn son, headed to a land she ha...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Children left behind when the American soldiers departed from Vietnam
The Businessman: Dang Van Son
The bar girl fell in love, or something like it, with an American serviceman named Jackson stationed at Long Binh base near Saigon in 1967. ...
DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
