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Today in History Today is Wednesday, July 16, the 197th day of 2025. There are 168 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 16, 1945, the United States exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico; the same day, the heavy cruiser USS ...

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By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Tuesday, July 15, the 196th day of 2025. There are 169 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 15, 1799, the Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts, was found at Fort Julien in the Nile Delta during the ...

Ludington Park Nature Trail: A community blooms together

If you’ve wallked through Ludington Park recently, you may have noticed something new and beautiful taking shape ÔøΩ the Ludington Park Nature Trail. This vibrant addition is the result of a heartfelt community effort, and the Board of Directors of Enhance Escanaba would like to thank you, ...

Trump’s rhetoric about Zelenskyy and Putin has evolved

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his campaign that, if elected to a second term, he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine "in 24 hours." But since his Jan. 20 inauguration, the road to a peace deal has been fraught with changing dynamics between the U.S. ...

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By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Monday, July 14, the 195th day of 2025. There are 170 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 14, 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the ...

Log off social media and return to the real things

WASHINGTON — A lot of people online have been very, very upset over the Trump Department of Justice's two-fold conclusion, announced last Sunday, that Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail in 2019 was a suicide and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had no "incriminating 'client list'" among ...