• Revisiting the Watergate scandal with an 'enormous number’ of new revelations

    Revisiting the Watergate scandal with an 'enormous number’ of new revelations

    Feb 21, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... Explain what you meant by that. Garrett Graff: Watergate, in many ways, is the turning point, the central hinge of the 20th century in the U.S. government. You have this moment where you have this new generation of leaders ushered into Washington. This is a generation that reshapes the ...

  • Possible Havana syndrome case delays Harris trip to Vietnam

    Possible Havana syndrome case delays Harris trip to Vietnam

    Aug 24, 2021 04:25 PM EDT

    HANOI (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' trip from Singapore to Vietnam was delayed several hours Tuesday by an investigation into a possible case of the so-called Havana Syndrome in Hanoi, administration officials said. The investigation was in its early stages and officials deemed it safe for Harris ...

  • Trump disparaged U.S. military casualties as 'losers,' 'suckers,' report says

    Trump disparaged U.S. military casualties as 'losers,' 'suckers,' report says

    Sep 04, 2020 01:44 PM EDT

    ... will go to during a lead-up to a presidential campaign to try to smear somebody.” Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday, “If the revelations in today’s Atlantic article are true, then they are yet another marker of how deeply President Trump and I disagree about the role ...

  • Agent Orange puts a new generation at risk in Vietnam

    Agent Orange puts a new generation at risk in Vietnam

    Sep 27, 2017 11:43 PM EDT

    ... Sheldon Whitehouse first met Dick in Saigon in 1972 while visiting a Shoeshine Boys house with his father, who was serving there as the deputy U.S. ambassador to Vietnam. DICK HUGHES: It is like a circle. We started off on different sides of it, but now we ended up ...

  • U.S. takes aim at blasphemy laws, religious discrimination

    U.S. takes aim at blasphemy laws, religious discrimination

    Aug 10, 2016 05:33 PM EDT

    ... worship, according to the report. "Around the world, governments continued to tighten their regulatory grip on religious groups, and particularly on minority religious groups and religions which are viewed as not traditional to that specific country," it said. Angola, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Eritrea, Myanmar, Russia and Vietnam were cited as having ...

  • Will the proposed Asia trade pact give U.S. companies more customers?

    Will the proposed Asia trade pact give U.S. companies more customers?

    May 14, 2015 11:47 PM EDT

    ... not in our courts, but in these tribunals, and that sometimes the threat or the fines are so significant, that governments water down their own regulations, whether it's environmental regulations, worker protections, and that even foreign companies that work in the United States could do that to us. JOHN ...

  • U.S. reputation survives spying revelations, poll finds

    U.S. reputation survives spying revelations, poll finds

    Jul 14, 2014 06:38 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — Widespread global opposition to U.S. electronic surveillance since the revelations by onetime National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has not badly tarnished the overall image of the United States, and it remains far more popular around the world than rising power China, according to a poll released Monday ...

  • News Wrap: Relatives of missing Flight 370 passengers threaten hunger strike for answers

    News Wrap: Relatives of missing Flight 370 passengers threaten hunger strike for answers

    Mar 18, 2014 11:45 PM EDT

    ... plus consular offices in Troy, Mich., and Houston, Texas. Syrian diplomats and staff have until the end of the month to leave the country. The U.S. closed its embassy in Damascus in 2012. Iran and six world powers resumed talks today on reining in Iran's nuclear program, but ...

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    Remembering McGovern, WWII Hero, Politician, and Vietnam War Challenger

    Oct 22, 2012 10:45 PM EDT

    ... had to stop those people and the military machines behind them, whereas, in Vietnam, it was a confusing situation. We undertook an impossible situation in Vietnam. JUDY WOODRUFF: McGovern's opposition to the Vietnam War blossomed during the first of his three terms in the U.S. Senate. His anti ...

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    Libya Protesters Call for 'Day of Anger,' Boat Sinks in Vietnam, Killing 12

    Feb 17, 2011 04:38 PM EDT

    ... Benghazi and pro-government rallies were underway in the capital city of Tripoli. The riots were initially sparked by the detention of a lawyer representing relatives of a group of people allegedly killed by security forces. Such unrest has rarely been seen in Libya, where Col. Muammar Gaddafi has ruled ...