Several weeks after NBC News reached out to Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield about the denial, the insurer changed its policy to include coverage of deep brain stimulation for certain children. Brandi ...

What began as a small deployment of U.S. Marines to protect an airbase at Da Nang in Vietnam escalated into one of the most divisive wars in U.S. history. United States Marines of the 9th ...

To Lam is a former security chief who carved his way to prominence and relishes the good life. He has promised to make Communist Vietnam rich and influential. To Lam, Vietnam’s top leader, at a news ...

Millions of casualties. Years of bloody attrition warfare. When Vietnamese communists toppled French colonial rule in 1954 despite massive U.S. military aid, the Geneva Accords temporarily divided ...

HANOI/KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The United States and Vietnam will finalise a trade agreement in the coming weeks that will maintain 20% tariffs on most Vietnamese goods but lift duties on ...

Vietnam is on a South China Sea island-building binge that will likely see it soon surpass the area China has reclaimed in the strategic and contested Spratly Islands, according to a new report from ...

President Donald Trump said the United States has struck a trade deal with Vietnam. The agreement includes a 20% U.S. tariff on Vietnamese goods, as well as a 40% "transshipping" tariff, Trump said.

HANOI — Vietnam is, officially, a communist country. The hammer and sickle hang from balconies and streetlamps. The face of Ho Chi Minh — or “Uncle Ho,” as he is reverently known — appears on every ...

Butter bars, turtles, and more. A second lieutenant, the lowest-ranking officer. The uniform insignia for second lieutenants is one gold bar, which looks like a stick of butter. Second lieutenants ...

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The early 1980s were a bleak period for Vietnam. The southeast Asian country, one of the world’s poorest, was still recovering from decades of war. Its centrally planned economy was unable to deliver ...

Between 1967 and 1968, Nancy Wells spent her waking hours stitching injured Americans back together amid the haze of the Vietnam War, treating wounds she'd never imagined seeing. When not on the ...