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"Star Trek Into Darkness," the newest edition in a space saga that reaches back a half-century, was, of course, a big hit at the box office this weekend.We might consider why.Beloved story, glowing with nostalgia? Check.Good special effects? Check.Good characters? Check.Indeed, there's a special richness to science fiction. Sci-fi looks into the future; the slogan of the Syfy Channel (formerly the Sci-Fi Channel) is "Imagine Greater." That is, imagine greater, with either fear or wonder. And there's a part of everyone that wants to do just that.Yet in addition, the most powerful works of sci-fi also provide commentary on the present. Yes, they show us the future, but they also show us ourselves. H.G. Wells' 1895 novella, "The Time Machine," for example, was a tale of a time-trip 800,000 years into the future, and yet it was also a sharp commentary on the deeply divided class system of 19th-century Britain. A half century later, George Orwell's "1984" was both a future dystopia and a sa...
Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country's Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again.This year alone...
Vice President Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry hailed the courage and dedication of U.S. diplomats slain in the line of duty as they led a memorial service o...
A longtime public servant for the city of Ravenna (rih-VEHN'-uh) in Ohio who was a guardsman at Kent State University during the 1970 deadly shootings has died.Famil...
A military buff like John Dodds could tell right away the leather bomber jacket wasn't just any old coat hanging on a rack at a Washington, D.C., Goodwill shop.His d...
A female soldier in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid a second tour of duty in the Iraq war.Pfc. Kimber...
Vietnam War veteran living in South Dakota is set to get a replacement military medal after someone broke into his home and stole his Purple Heart.Charlie Running Ha...
Former Associated Press foreign correspondent George McArthur, who reported all over the world and spent years in Saigon covering the Vietnam war, has died. He was 8...
A mortar shell left from the Vietnam War has exploded in a southern village, killing four children and seriously injuring five other people.Hieu Nghia village offici...
It's been a cruel year for the fabled crew of reporters that covered the Vietnam War for The Associated Press.Correspondent George Esper died in February, writer Roy...
U.S. officials have sent what are believed to be the remains of at least three American servicemen killed during the Vietnam War to the United States for identificat...
Navy veteran Larry Reyes sounds off
When Jane Fonda was cast as former First Lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' forthcoming film "The Butler," some Reagan fans were not pleased. Now, with the biographic...
Men who were exposed to Agent Orange chemicals used during the Vietnam War are at higher risk for life-threatening prostate cancer than unexposed veterans, researche...
That Washington is holding defense cuts responsible for slow economic growth is a specious argument at best. War spending is unproductive and inflationary. Modern de...
Bill Ayers, the 1960s radical who went on to become a college professor and associate of President Obama, said Saturday the bombings he helped the Weather Undergroun...
Everything OK at home for TV's Andy Levy?
Man whose family was targeted speaks out
Weighing U.S. response to Syrian crisis
Editor's note: Watch Patrick Dorinson on "Stossel " on Fox Business Network, Thursday, May 9 at 9 p.m. ET where he'll tackle the topic "What Ever Happened to GRIT?"D...