• AP Analysis: With Trump in waiting, Kim Jong Un courts China's support

    AP Analysis: With Trump in waiting, Kim Jong Un courts China's support

    Jan 08, 2019 04:05 PM EST

    ... he would be making his first and much-anticipated trip to Seoul. Then there was talk, fueled in large part by Trump himself, that another U.S.-North Korea summit was near and that officials were negotiating where it would take place. Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, was reportedly on the ...

  • A personal look at John McCain’s political impact

    A personal look at John McCain’s political impact

    Aug 26, 2018 10:20 PM EST

    ... guy who could had a fierce temper, believe me I was the victim of that. He could also reconcile with political foes even with a Vietnam dissenter who'd gone to Vietnam while he was imprisoned and tortured. And I guess my most vivid memory, a lot of journalists will ...

  • Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?

    Should 16-year-olds be allowed to vote?

    Apr 20, 2018 08:26 PM EST

    ... Vietnam War for years, and the sentiment that began to emerge was that if young men (and women) were old enough to fight in the U.S. military, they were old enough to vote. In 1971, Congress proposed the 26th amendment, and it was ratified by three quarters of the ...

  • 5 medical stories you might have missed

    5 medical stories you might have missed

    Feb 20, 2018 10:25 PM EST

    ... smoking also resulted in a heightened risk of strokes. Why it matters: Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the U.S. It’s resulted in an estimated 480,000 deaths each year -- that’s one in every five American deaths. The good news: After ...

  • Conservative 'Never Trumpers' are split over Trump’s first year

    Conservative 'Never Trumpers' are split over Trump’s first year

    Jan 20, 2018 08:18 PM EST

    ... a clear danger. ELIOT COHEN: First, he set up a number of-- really potentially very dangerous foreign policy-- circumstances on the Korean peninsula-- in our relationship with-- Mexico, in our relationship-- in-- in the way we've dealt with free trade. And secondly, he's done a lot of long ...

  • Trump is first president in almost a century to skip hosting a state visit in his first year

    Trump is first president in almost a century to skip hosting a state visit in his first year

    Dec 25, 2017 08:47 PM EST

    ... to reciprocate, making him the first president in almost a century to close his first year in office without welcoming a visiting counterpart to the U.S. with similar trappings. Trump spoke dismissively of state dinners as a candidate, when he panned President Barack Obama's decision to welcome Chinese ...

  • Why some Alabamians are still standing with Moore

    Why some Alabamians are still standing with Moore

    Nov 19, 2017 03:21 PM EST

    ... many. Fearful of angering Moore's supporters, the Alabama GOP has stuck with him, and voters like Larry Gibbs are putting their confidence in the Vietnam veteran long known as the "Ten Commandments judge," for putting shrines to the commandments in his courtroom and then in the Supreme Court rotunda ...

  • AP report: With tensions high, Trump, Abe strengthen bond on the links

    AP report: With tensions high, Trump, Abe strengthen bond on the links

    Nov 05, 2017 02:49 PM EST

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed Trump to Japan Sunday with an effusive display of friendship.

  • Trump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November

    Trump to travel to 5 countries in Asia in November

    Sep 29, 2017 03:11 PM EST

    It will be Trump's first visit to the region as president, and it comes as North Korea moves closer to its goal of having a nuclear-tipped missile that could strike the U.S.

  • How the 1967 riots reshaped Detroit, and the rebuilding that still needs to be done

    How the 1967 riots reshaped Detroit, and the rebuilding that still needs to be done

    Jul 22, 2017 12:17 AM EST

    In the summer of 1967, the simmering unrest in cities across America exploded. In Detroit, tensions between the police and the African-American community reached their limit, unleashing five days of full-out violence -- riots or a rebellion, depending on whom you ask. Fifty years later, special correspondent Soledad O'Brien reports on what sparked it all...