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Full Title: 'He didn't care what race, gender, sexual orientation you were': John Wayne's son defends his father over homophobic slur he used in 1971 interview which resurfaced John Wayne’s son says a 1971 Playboy interview in which the famed actor says he ‘believes in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility’ was ‘used out of context.’ Ethan Wayne on Saturday defended his late father, the Oscar-winning star of True Grit and Sands of Iwo Jima, who died of stomach cancer in 1979. John Wayne’s controversial comments about African Americans, homosexuals, and Native Americans in...

Miller was a man who could have stayed safely at home in America. Instead he risked—and lost—everything.

A heroic US airman told tonight for the first time how he and his childhood friends brought down a gunman intent on massacring the passengers of the Amsterdam to Paris express train. Spencer Stone revealed how he woke from a deep sleep to see a man holding an assault rifle and that it 'looked like it was jammed and it wasn't working'. Speaking for the first time about his crucial role in thwarting the terrorist attack in northern France in Friday he said the trio decided they had to 'do something or die'.

A Greeley School Board member said he is getting death threats from people angered by his radio commentary. Brett Reese has been reading a viewer’s letter critical of Dr. Martin Luther King twice a day on the Greeley radio station 104.7 Pirate Radio. The station claims to broadcast to 40,000 people per day. With the recent commentary, more people than ever before are paying attention. Reese is even receiving death threats and carrying a gun. The commentary is quite controversial. It calls King a sexual degenerate, plagiarist and an America-hating communist. Reese said the commentary was sent by a listener...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.- More than 60 years after she flew military planes during World War II, a 93-year-old Florida woman got a chance to fly an AT-6 Texan again. Tex Meacham had a large cheering section Friday as she got into the cockpit of the training plane at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, The Miami Herald reported Saturday. She was serenaded by the men's choir of John Knox Village in Pompano Beach while about two dozen members of the village chapter of the Red Hat Society applauded the woman they call their "queen bee." Meacham spent two years in the Women...

Though President Bush hasn't promised a pardon, he at least has agreed to review the case against two border agents convicted of shooting a suspected drug smuggler. And though we wish Bush had chosen to review the case before the two had already been incarcerated, we hope he won't take too long to grant the two El Paso, Texas-area Border Patrol agents a pardon. "According to a jury of their peers, these officers violated some standards," Bush said last week, a day after Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean turned themselves into federal custody. But after the public uproar over...

VIRGINIA BEACH — Lt. Cmdr. Erik Kristensen read poetry and kicked around the beach in a pair of Birkenstocks. Chief Petty Officer Jacques J. Fontan shot a scratch round of golf and carried an incurable love for the New Orleans Saints. The two men shared an elite title – Navy SEAL – and were deployed to Afghanistan in April as part of a group from SEAL Team 10. Kristensen and Fontan were among 16 servicemen killed Tuesday when their MH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by enemy fire during a mountain rescue mission. Late Saturday, the Pentagon officially released the...

The election is over but the bickering never stopped. Some voters are suffering from "post election stress disorder." Pundits and partisans are stepping up to next face-off: judicial appointments. Yet the country has united on one issue: Vietnam. Ernest Lefever described the American attitude toward Vietnam: "The two diametrically opposed interpretations of Vietnam continue to vie for the American psyche. Until the issue is resolved, we will suffer from a kind of historical schizophrenia." The parade of Vietnam Veterans across the stage at the Democrats National Convention received a standing ovation, the first of its kind from the protesting class....

No ‘Choice’ Wal-Mart prepares to bury the left under a mountain of money By Glen Ford and Peter Gamble | 3.31.04 Jim, John, Alice, Sam and Helen may carry the world’s most dangerous genetic markers. They are the Waltons, heirs to the global destructive force called Wal-Mart. With more than $100 billion in personal assets among them, the five Waltons occupy positions six through 10 in the Forbes billionaires rankings, twice as rich as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, the guy at the top. Collectively, they are antisocial malevolence with a last name. These spawn of Bentonville, Arkansas harbor an abiding hatred...

NASIRIYAH, Iraq -- After one firefight on the Euphrates River, the acrid smoke cleared and a U.S. Marine handed Staff Sgt. Nelson Hidalgo two casualties of the war and poverty in Iraq.The mother was dying of hunger, unable to nurse her young, who were on the verge of starving, too. The "barbarians," as Marines with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance unit are called, were about to become proud parents."We scooped the babies right up," said Hidalgo, nodding at the white puppy chowing down on a military MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) of pasta and vegetables beneath the gun turret of...

'Mojo' and 'Mad Dog' prove their mettle By Mark Oliva, Stars and StripesEuropean edition, Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Mark Oliva / S&S Marine Sgts. Christopher Merkle, left, and Jose Rodriguez — infantrymen with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines —ducked doctors, hitched rides, begged for gear and even thought about stealing a Humvee to return from a shock trauma center in Iraq to their unit after getting injured in a truck accident. SOUTHERN IRAQ — Sgt. Christopher Merkle and Sgt. Jose Rodriguez weren’t going to let a little truck accident stop them from finishing what they’d started.Merkle and Rodriguez, affectionately...

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Doug Mills (AP) WASHINGTON -- President Bush prepared Americans for the second stage of the war on terrorism Monday as he marked the six-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. quot;More dangers and sacrifices lie ahead,quot; Bush said in a White House ceremony, the flags of dozens of American allies fluttering behind him. quot;Yet America is prepared. Our resolve has only grown, because we remember. quot;There can be no peace in a world where differences and grievances become an excuse to target the innocent for murder.quot; While the United States and its allies routed the Taliban and al-Qaeda and helped...