Korean War

Dads of yesteryear were really good at one thing: tough love. Few fictional characters pulled off this brand of the hard-ass father figure as good as Red Forman from the Fox sitcom That 70s Show. Portrayed by actor Kurtwood Smith, Red was a Korean and World W…

Former US Representative John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in Detroit despite several scandals, died on Sunday. He was 90. …

Source: Drew Angerer / Getty Congress lost another titan of the house this weekend. Yesterday, according to Detroit News, John Conyers passed away in Detroit at the age of 90. Conyers was Korean War veteran and served 53 years in the U.S. House of Represent…

Conyers died aged 90 CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Topline: Congressman John Conyers, one of the longest-serving lawmakers in the House of Representatives whose five-decade career included the championing of civil rights, has died at the age of 90.

Key point: North Korean aggression and horrible treatment of American POWs could have led to a massive retaliation. A U.S. Army light freighter launched during World War II, the fifty-four-meter-long Pueblo had been recommissioned by the Navy in 1966s to ser…

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Conyers was a vocal advocate for progressive values throughout a historic congressional career. Former Michigan Congressman, John Conyers Jr., the longest-serving African-American congressman in United States history, was d…

Conyers represented Detroit through some of the most difficult years in the citys history, a time in which the decline of the auto industry caused the city to go into a steep economic decline. But along with John Dingell who died earlier this year at the age …

In July 2015, the two of us stepped off a plane at the newly opened airport in Pyongyang, North Korea. It was our first time in the country. As architects based in Beijing, we were well acquainted with the worlds cities and skyscrapers, but North Korea was a …

A missing Long Island war vet whose bones were found buried in a basement with the help of a psychic was laid to rest at a funeral Friday. George Carroll an army corporal in the Korean War, who vanished in 1961 was mourned at Calverton National Cemetery in R…

In 2017, Chamkaur Ghag, a physicist at University College London, got an email from a colleague in Spain, with a tempting offer. The year before, an emeritus professor at Princeton University, Frank Calaprice, had learned of old Spanish ships that had sunk of…