ESCANABA- “March madness" is an old saying first coined in 1939 to describe the excitement of a basketball tournament. Through the years, many of us have spent countless hours in the month of March in a sweaty, stuffy loud gymnasium! The chanting and cheering crowd, the squeak of ...
Today is Friday, March 6, the 65th day of 2026. There are 300 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, ruled 7-2 that Scott, an enslaved person, was not a U.S. citizen and therefore could not sue for his freedom in federal court; it also ruled that slavery could not be banned from any federal territory. The decision deepened the national divide over slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. Also on this date: In 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to ...
We officially live in the age of missile defense. The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been the showcase for missile-defense systems — interceptors, radars, and complex command and control — that are extremely robust and have largely defanged Iran's foremost military threat to Israel, ...
DALLAS (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he soon will endorse a Republican candidate in the Texas Senate race, warning that the divisive contest "cannot, for the good of the Party, and our Country, itself, be allowed to go on any longer." But Trump, a former reality television ...
Today is Thursday, March 5, the 64th day of 2026. There are 301 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who had been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people. The killing fueled colonists' outrage in the run-up to the American Revolution. Also on this date: In 1856, a major fire destroyed Covent Garden's royal theater and opera house in London, marking the second time fire destroyed a theater on the site since 1808. (The theater was rebuilt and has since undergone major reconstruction and ...
If you wanted to look at it this way, President Donald Trump is keeping his promise to end wars by taking out an Iranian regime that has made war on us and underwritten terrorism throughout the Middle East and the world since its 1979 revolution. In killing Iran’s top leadership, including ...
