Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ

August 13, 2020

WWII naval telegrams detailing the sinking of Hitler’s most powerful battleship emerge

An archive of 22 Royal Navy telegram messages describing the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck is up for auction in the U.K.

August 8, 2020

Austrian tourist taking photo with 200-year-old sculpture breaks its toes

The tourist, who took the photo at an art museum in northern Italy last week, has apologized.

August 6, 2020

Victor Davis Hanson: 75 years ago US used atomic bomb in Japan — here are 5 alternatives Truman rejected

Each day in early August 1945 that the Japanese war machine continued its work meant that thousands of Asian civilians and Allied soldiers would die.

August 6, 2020

Hiroshima survivors mark 75th anniversary of attack, urge ban on nuclear weapons

Survivors of the world’s first atomic bombing gathered in diminished numbers near an iconic, blasted dome Thursday to mark the attack’s 75th anniversary, many of them urging the world, and their own government, to do more to ban nuclear weapons.

August 6, 2020

Rebecca Grant: Truman and Hiroshima 75 years later – here's why he dropped the atomic bomb

This week marks 75 years since a B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. 

August 5, 2020

Arizona veteran Ervin Julian -- carried to seat at Trump rally -- dead at 100: report

Ervin Julian, a World War II veteran from Arizona who became a viral sensation after he was carried to his seat during a rally for President Trump in Phoenix last February, has died, according to a report.

August 4, 2020

105-year-old WWII veteran celebrates milestone birthday with drive-by salute

After joining the Marine Corps in 1934, Maj. Bill White served on active duty for 30 years, including during World War II and the Korean War.

July 30, 2020

Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to take down 'anti-Semitic' denial posts, classify them as hate speech

Holocaust survivors launched an online campaign Wednesday to implore Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to classify posts that deny the genocide of six million European Jews carried out by the Nazi regime during World War II as hate speech and be taken down from the social media platform.

July 29, 2020

Minnesota county official resigns after comparing state mask mandate to Nazi Germany

A county Republican board member in southern Minnesota has resigned after posting on Facebook an image that compares the state’s mask mandate to Jewish people wearing a star in concentration camps.

July 23, 2020

German court convicts 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard

A 93-year-old former Nazi guard at the Stutthof concentration camp was convicted of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder by a German court Thursday.