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Six months in the Trump White House

WASHINGTON — We have a madman in the house, the White House. By that I mean Donald Trump is a bit insane, drunk with power and revenge, and full of fury, at the one-eighth mark of his presidency. One-eighth. Time to grapple with the grave reality, that the president captured the ...

Veritas gets a reboot

WASHINGTON — It took threats to cut off its federal funding following anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations for Harvard University to consider again pursuing what used to be the foundation of its motto "Veritas," or truth. The Wall Street Journal reports that leaders ...

Almanac

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 ...

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. ...

Almanac

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 ...