WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country who can become American citizens, after the Supreme Court rejected his first attempt at limiting birthright citizenship. The president said he was signing ...
Today is Friday, Aug. 7, the 219th day of 2026. There are 146 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1974, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, more than 1,300 feet above the ground; the event was chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary “Man on Wire.” Also on this date: In 1789, the U.S. Department of War was established by Congress. In 1942, U.S. and other allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific ...
ESCANABA- Friend or foe, cute or crazy, ground squirrels are a part of summertime in the north woods. Upper Michigan is home to two separate species of these fury little friends. Everybody is familiar with the eastern chipmunk. This busy little body thrives in the wilderness, in parks, campgrounds, and in backyards all over the U.P. If you feed the birds, you know the striped chipmunk who invites himself over for a free meal. Chipmunks are born in May in a tunnel well below ground. They are naked, blind and not much bigger than a bumble bee at birth. They grow fast on their ...
An Iran war that was supposed to be brief, and then was supposed to be over, is imposing an increasing price on Donald Trump’s presidency. We’ve seen a second term of a Republican administration go this way before. There are distinct echoes of George W. Bush’s Iraq War — the ...
CEDAR CREST, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s attorney general sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, accusing it of blocking the state from investigating sex crimes at Jeffrey Epstein’s sprawling ranch near Santa Fe. The lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., said the ...
Today is Thursday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2026. There are 147 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. Also on this date: In 1806, Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Holy Roman Empire after nearly a thousand years. In 1825, Upper Peru became the autonomous republic of Bolivia. In 1890, at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed via the electric chair. In 1926, ...
