When thousands of their fellow Californians were interned in the 1940s for being of Japanese descent, Jewish reactions were mixed.

Before World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave Hitler’s regime the kid-glove treatment.

US President George W. Bush said he was invading Iraq to keep America safe. But critics saw a hidden motive: oil.

Hundreds of American prisoners of war had spent nearly three years starving in a Japanese camp in the Philippines. The story of how they got out remains one of the most extraordinary rescue operations ...