10+ hour, 25+ min ago  (50+ words) Daily Gate City A super typhoon steadily battered a pair of remote U. S. islands in the Pacific Ocean with ferocious winds and relentless rains. The storm shredded tin roofs and forced residents to take cover from flying tree limbs....

9+ hour, 47+ min ago  (193+ words) Sam Krieger with his medals. Sam Krieger, of rural Rome, Iowa, scoffs at being called a war hero. "My Uncle Hes," he says. "Now, he was a war hero." At the age of 77, and breathing hard with COPD, Sam digs…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (79+ words) Watch live from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials observe a two-minute silence as a siren sounds, honoring those killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. #israel #jerusalem #live…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1212+ words) Part of the Violins of Hope collection at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport. A violin inlaid with the Star of David, part of the Violins of Hope collection on tour at the Putnam Museum and Science Center…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago  (326+ words) FORT MADISON " Just before 10 a. m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, a rarely-seen sight cruised the Mississippi River and passed through the Fort Madison BNSF bridge. The USS LST-325, a WWII Landing Ship Tank, makes a yearly voyage to a variety of port cities. This…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago  (391+ words) The bow of the USS LST-325 is seen as it approaches the Fort Madison BNSF bridge Tuesday morning. The USS LST-325 passes through the Fort Madison BNSF bridge Tuesday morning on its way upriver. This World War II-era ship is…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (105+ words) Live from Hiroshima on the 80th anniversary of the U. S. dropping an atomic bomb on the city. The U. S. attacks on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and three days later on Nagasaki killed more than 200, 000 people by the end of that year. Others survived but…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (66+ words) Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a dwindling number of the aging Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons by global leaders. (AP Video by Ayaka Mc Gill…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (166+ words) When the first atomic bomb detonated 80 years ago on Aug. 6, thousands of the dead and dying were brought to the small, rural island of Ninoshima, just south of Hiroshima. Decades later, people in the area are looking for the remains…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (73+ words) Watch live as Croatia celebrates the 30th anniversary of the end of the military action against Serbian backed insurgency with a military parade, showing off army capability of its air force, ground force and navy. #croatia #parade #live Watch live as…...