Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, two-time independent presidential candidate, dies at 89
H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice ran for president as a third-party candidate, has died. He was 89. The cause of death was leukemia, a family spokesman said Tuesday. Perot, whose 19 percent of ...
Trump says was 'never a fan' of Vietnam War, and that Americans hadn't heard of country in 1968
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has no regrets about being able to avoid serving during the Vietnam War, because he was not a "fan" of the highly unpopular conflict. "I was never a fan of that war, I'll be honest with you. ...
Over 100,000 bikers mass for 'Rolling Thunder' as Trump vows to protect Memorial Day spectacle
More than 100,000 flag-bearing bikers, many of them Vietnam veterans, throttled their engines Sunday for the annual "Rolling Thunder" ride through the U.S. capital as President Donald Trump vowed to keep the Memorial Day spectacle alive. Spectators lined the route from the Pentagon to the ...
French AFP war reporter who witnessed Lee Harvey Oswald slaying dies at 94
A veteran French war reporter who was a witness in Dallas to the fatal shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald has died at the age of 94, his family said on Sunday In 1963, Francois Pelou, who also covered the wars in Korea and Vietnam for ...
Former Vietnamese president, who led invasion of Cambodia that ousted Khmer Rouge, dies at 99
Gen. Le Duc Anh, a Communist Party hard-liner and former Vietnamese president who led the invasion of Cambodia, which led to the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, has died at 99. Duc Anh, who was born in 1920, spent much of his life in ...
How a film influenced Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia
Popular culture plays an underestimated role in shaping policymakers' world views and choices.
Jim Mattis tours contaminated Vietnam War-era Agent Orange site
U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis toured a former Agent Orange storage site in southern Vietnam on Wednesday, revisiting one of the war's darkest chapters that lives on among a million Vietnamese with severe birth defects, cancers and disabilities linked to the toxic defoliant. Standing near ...
For McCain, a cross-country farewell from public, presidents
Two former presidents are expected to speak at Sen. John McCain's service and he will lie in state in both the nation's capital and Arizona as part of a cross-country funeral procession ending with his burial at the U.S. Naval Academy, according to plans ...
Ernest Medina, key figure in 1968 My Lai Massacre, dies at 81 in Wisconsin
Former Army Capt. Ernest L. Medina, a key figure in the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War, has died in Wisconsin. He was 81. Medina was an Army captain on March 16, 1968, when American troops under his command killed hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese ...
50 years ago in Vietnam's My Lai village, massacre brought shame to U.S. military
The shudder of artillery fire woke the boy at 5:30 a.m. Three American soldiers appeared at his family's home a couple of hours later and forced the mother and five children into their bomb shelter, a structure almost every rural Vietnamese home had. One soldier ...
All-female Perfume River combat squadron helped change outcome of Vietnam War
By day Nguyen Thi Hoa sold conical hats on the streets of Hue in southern Vietnam, at night she funneled secrets to communist army handlers who were poised to launch an audacious assault on the city that would reshape the Vietnam War. Hoa was part ...
U.S. suddenly opts to defund Norwegian NGO's project to clear mines, UXO in Cambodia
The United States has decided to defund a Norwegian nongovernmental organization's efforts to clear Cambodia of land mines and unexploded ordnance, causing concern that Washington might cease such funding altogether. Heng Ratana, director-general of Cambodian Mine Action Center, said he had received a confirmation letter ...
