Big things are planned for President Donald Trump‘s military parade on Saturday. The National Mall in Washington, D.C., will be filled with parading military vehicles from the Army’s 250 years of operation. The Army began operations on June 14, 1775, one year before the United States was founded. Saturday is also Trump’s 79th birthday. TRUMP […]
MONTPELIER, Vermont — The Green Mountain State is turning a shade of purple. It may seem a shocking political development for one of America’s most liberal states, a seeming blue bastion, or something further left, that has elected socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) since 2006, and as a House member for 16 years prior. However, […]
For Brian Wilson’s lengthy contributions to the tarnished monolith of 20th-century rock culture, neither he nor his work has ever sat easily within it. Wilson, the Beach Boys songwriter who died on June 11 at 82, did love rock ‘n’ roll, per se: He shamelessly ripped off Chuck Berry for the band’s iconic early single […]
TALLINN, Estonia — In the summer of 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared that the United States would observe “Baltic Freedom Day.” The proclamation turned a grim anniversary — the Soviet Union’s mass deportation of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian nationals away from their historic homelands began on June 14, 1941 — into an occasion to affirm “our hope […]
The District of Columbia was carved out of land given to the federal government by Virginia and Maryland. It was supposed to be a 100-square-mile diamond. Cartographers and Metro riders will notice those are not the dimensions of America’s capital city today. The portion of the district that originally belonged to Virginia was retroceded to […]
The Democratic National Committee‘s headache over David Hogg is not over, despite the party voting for his removal from the vice chairmanship and his subsequent decision not to run for another term. Hogg, who has levied harsh criticism over elderly incumbent Democrats’ refusals to step down from their offices, will continue working with his organization, […]
The Roosevelt Room echoes with a cappella hymns, voices rising like a revival tent under a starry sky. In the Cabinet Room, pastors proclaim prayers “in Jesus’s name,” invoking divine favor over a nation they believe has strayed. And in the Oval Office, hands stretch toward President Donald Trump, as evangelical leaders anoint him with […]
The Supreme Court has issued a litany of unanimous decisions in recent weeks, as the justices save rulings in the most contentious cases for the end of their term. The high court is ideologically divided 6-3 between Republican- and Democratic-appointed justices, but decisions along those ideological lines tend to be less common than conventional wisdom […]
Iran responded to Israel’s airstrike on its country by launching over 100 drones toward Israel on Friday morning. The drone deployment came as retaliation for Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, which targeted Iran’s nuclear program in a military airstrike on Thursday. The preemptive attack centered on “dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas […]
Unions that rely on taxpayer-funded dues to keep their lights on have taken prominent roles in organizing the “No Kings” protests that are scheduled to be held across the nation on Saturday — coinciding with President Donald Trump’s military parade intended to commemorate the Army’s 250th birthday. The Service Employees International Union, American Federation of […]
