Opinion: Planning to protest at the DNC in August? Here’s why you shouldn’t
A collection of fringe radical groups are calling for demonstrations in Chicago this August at the Democratic National Convention — a “March on the DNC”…
Terrorism threats in U.S. are ‘more diverse and difficult to counter’
She wanted a rifle. He needed a soldier for his plan to overthrow the government. Sarah Beth Clendaniel was a radical looking for a target…
Opinion: Are the campus protesters angry enough with Biden to vote for Trump?
The first time Americans younger than 21 years old could vote in a presidential election was when George McGovern challenged President Nixon in 1972, and…
L.A. supervisors’ ‘Jane Fonda Day’ is astoundingly insensitive
As a proud member of the Vietnamese American community and the California Assembly, I was deeply disappointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’…
How the Vietnamese community is reacting to HBO’s ‘The Sympathizer’
Never before has a television series garnered so much excitement, attention and concern among California’s expatriate Vietnamese community, the world’s largest, as “The Sympathizer.” HBO’s…
‘The Sympathizer’ creators on depicting war through a Vietnamese lens
When Park Chan-wook read “The Sympathizer” for the first time, maybe six or seven years ago, he felt like he was watching fireworks explode in…
Jazz pianist, ‘Compared to What’ singer Les McCann dies at 88
Jazz pianist and singer Les McCann, best known for his raucous live single “Compared to What” from the 1969 Montreux Jazz Festival and later sampled…
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger dead at 100
Henry A. Kissinger, the architect of U.S. foreign policy at the apex of the Cold War and a towering intellectual force in world affairs for…
Dot was deployed to a hospital in the Vietnam War. When she returned home, she suffered from PTSD
Back home in staid mid-1960s Melbourne after three years in swinging London, Dorothy 'Dot' Angell wanted a new adventure.So, in early 1967 the 26-year-old nurse signed…
Vietnam veterans to hold graveside vigils marking milestone anniversaries of the conflict
In a quiet cemetery on the NSW north coast, retired Australian Army Major John Thurgar places flowers on a grave, bows, then salutes. Key points:Vietnam veterans…