Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks at the Pentagon during a news conference Friday about the Defense Department’s annual report on sexual assault in the military.Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press Sen. Kirsten…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google is embedding engineers at a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities where they teach, mentor and advise on curriculum. Today, 35 percent of African…
The American Humane Association is celebrating 100 years of Be Kind to Animals Week, which draws celebrities, politicians and everyday enthusiasts each May to raise awareness about the plight of…
Sainthood of contentious 18th-century Spaniard at issue
PAUWATHOK, Nepal – At the entrance of this destroyed mountain village, a wooden sign stands, cobbled together from debris of homes flattened by Nepal’s devastating earthquake. Its message: “WE NEED…
6 Baltimore police officers involved in black man’s death are suspended
Next door to the Caphe Da Lat 244 one recent night, a Vietnam veteran named Jim Reischl watches this scene unfold impassively, taking a drink out of a sweaty beer.…
The day was full of panic, chaos and defeat
A toddler watches as his mother harvests vegetables on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. The Vietnamese value nutrition, but 1 in 4 children younger than 5…
Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, was decked out in hammer-and-sickle banners as soldiers marched through the nation’s financial center. They passed by streets lined with American fast-food…
“We were the bad guys,” Parker, now 65, said of the American war effort in Vietnam. “I had some ghosts I had to face down.” In 2011, Parker flew from…
Weeks later at a refugee camp in Southern California, they were reunited with her two other children who were sent abroad with relatives and her husband, the son of a…
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. The two set up housekeeping…
The men barricaded the rooftop door using heavy fire extinguishers and wall lockers and waited nervously as Vietnamese gathered outside rammed a fire truck through an embassy entrance. They could…
NAIROBI, Kenya – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is in Kenya promoting equal opportunities for girls in education. Clinton said Friday that while intelligence is equally distributed across the world,…
CHICAGO – One of the remaining obstacles to building Barack Obama’s presidential library in his hometown of Chicago fell away when Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed legislation Friday strengthening the…
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued four citations this week that carry nearly $26,000 in fines. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. said in a statement that the citations show…
Chuck Burton/Associated Press<br><br>A new report shows consumer sentiment is at its second-highest level since 2007. Economists say the index shows consumers, such as Lucy Perez, of Charlotte, N.C., are optimistic…
