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Veteran Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald on Tuesday took an "opportunity to correct" a comparison he made of the long wait for medical care at his agency's facilities to lines at Disneyland.
HANOI, May 23 (Reuters) - The United States announced a complete end to its arms embargo on Vietnam on Monday, a historic step that draws a line under the two countries' earlier enmity and underscores their shared concerns about China's growing military clout.
HANOI, VIETNAM - The biggest challenge to President Barack Obama’s attempt to improve ties while visiting Vietnam this week is the communist nation’s dismal record on human rights.
HANOI/WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - With police watching his home around the clock, Vietnamese blogger Huynh Ngoc Chenh sneaked out through a back door and reappeared the next day in a public square to hold a one-man, anti-government protest.
But having been given the slip once, police wasted no time in nabbing him after only five minutes.
WASHINGTON --The floor of the U.S. House of Representatives descended into brief chaos Thursday morning following the defeat of an amendment on religious freedom.
WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama appears poised to begin selling weapons to an old enemy and a new friend: Vietnam.
Obama, who will embark this weekend on his first trip to the Communist country, is weighing an end to a United States’ ban on selling weapons that started in 1975 at the close of the Vietnam War, which left nearly 60,000 Americans dead and scarred a generation.
President Obama is considering broadly expanding weapons sales to Vietnam in a move aimed at strengthening ties with Hanoi and boosting regional defenses against China's growing clout.
Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in U.S. v. Texas, the case regarding President Obama’s executive actions to provide temporary relief from deportation for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and eligible parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.