TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An uproar continued Sunday after the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East, as more Arab and Muslim countries objected and the U.S. said his comments were taken out of context. Huckabee spoke in an interview with ...
Today is Monday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2026. There are 311 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags. (The second flag-raising was captured in an iconic photograph by Joe Rosenthal of The Associated Press.) Also on this date: In 1836, the siege of the Alamo by Mexican troops began in San Antonio, Texas. Almost all of the nearly 200 heavily outnumbered Texas defenders, including American frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett, were killed in the 13-day ...
If you’ve driven through town on a winter weekend lately, you may have noticed something. Parking lots full. More trucks at the gas stations. Breakfast spots with a steady hum of conversation. Out-of-state plates mixed in with local regulars. Winter in Delta County has always had its ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned on Friday that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country's top diplomat said Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days after nuclear talks with the United States. In response to a reporter's ...
Today is Saturday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2026. There are 313 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1965, civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside Harlem's Audubon Ballroom in New York. Three men identified as members of the Nation of Islam were convicted of murder and imprisoned; all were eventually paroled. (The convictions of two of the men were dismissed in November 2021, when prosecutors said new evidence had undermined the case against them.) Also on this date: In 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published "The Communist Manifesto" in ...
A poster depicting an enormous face gazed from the wall. The caption ran, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." So wrote George Orwell at the open of his dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Big Brother's image was everywhere, on printed material and on telescreens blasting state propaganda in ...
