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Trump attacks DSA candidates as 'communists.' Will it stick?: Up First from NPR
18+ hour, 59+ min ago (154+ words) President Trump has repeatedly warned that the communists are coming for America. And he's not talking about China or North Korea. He's talking about Democratic Socialists like Zohran Mamdani and recent Congressional candidates. This week on The Sunday Story, we…...
F-4 pilot recalls pulling 7.5g while flying with travel pod during airshow practice. 2g was the amount the pod could sustain.
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (241+ words) At one time the F-4 Phantom was operated by a dozen countries, three air forces still fly the jet. Production ran from the early 1960s until 1981 when the 5,195th example of the type was delivered to the Republic of Korea Air Force. The…...
USS Washington Fired 75 Sixteen-Inch Shells at Another Battleship From Under Five Miles. Not One Japanese Shell Hit Her Hull
4+ hour, 50+ min ago (420+ words) USS Washington opened fire on the Japanese battleship Kirishima from 8,400 yards on November 14–15, 1942, firing 75 sixteen-inch shells in one of the war's rarest battleship duels. Kirishima lost steering, flooded, and sank hours later. Not one Japanese shell hit Washington's hull....
New York Shipbuilders to be Honored on Labor Day by America’s Most Decorated World War II Battleship
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (184+ words) This Labor Day weekend, the Battleship North Carolina Memorial, part of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, will illuminate the Battleship North Carolina in red for the... New York Shipbuilders to be Honored on Labor Day by…...
Last Battleship Ever Built (Not in the US Navy): HMS Vanguard Hit 51,000 Tons, Was Bigger Than Some Aircraft Carriers, and Never Attacked Another Battleship
5+ hour, 50+ min ago (506+ words) Britain spent £11,530,503 building HMS Vanguard, and the figure excluded her main guns, built for World War I battlecruisers. The Royal Navy's last battleship, and the last launched anywhere in the world, entered service in 1946 and never fired at an enemy....
Trump attacks DSA candidates as 'communists.' Will it stick?: The Sunday Story
18+ hour, 59+ min ago (154+ words) President Trump has repeatedly warned that the communists are coming for America. And he's not talking about China or North Korea. He's talking about Democratic Socialists like Zohran Mamdani and recent Congressional candidates. This week on The Sunday Story, we…...
World War II soldier's remains returned home to Bennington
22+ hour, 30+ min ago (897+ words) This story by Jim Therrien was first published in the Bennington Banner on July 31, 2026. BENNINGTON — The long journey of Bennington native Bernard Sweet, who died in the Philippines during World War II, came full circle on Thursday evening when his…...
US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Saratoga: 81,101 Tons, Bigger Than An Iowa-Class Battleship, and Her Flight Deck was Three Football Fields
8+ hour, 17+ min ago (461+ words) USS Saratoga combined an 81,101-ton displacement, 280,000 horsepower and a four-acre flight deck built for about 100 aircraft. During 38 years of service, the Forrestal-class carrier fought over Vietnam, Libya and Iraq before failed museum efforts sent her to a Texas recycling yard....
US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Sits in Mobile: 45,000 Tons, Big As An Aircraft Carrier, and Never Fired at Another Battleship
8+ hour, 31+ min ago (552+ words) USS Alabama packed nine 16-inch guns, 130,000 shaft horsepower and a 2,500-person wartime crew into a 680-foot hull. She never fought another battleship, but screened carriers, bombarded islands and ended World War II with nine battle stars before becoming a museum…...
The Byrds??? Somber Reflection on Hiroshima
9+ hour, 11+ min ago (360+ words) “I come and stand at every door But no one hears my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead, for I am dead I’m only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago I’m seven…...