NEW ORLEANS—Flag-waving admirers lined the sidewalk outside the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Wednesday to greet the oldest living survivor of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor as he marked his upcoming 105th birthday. “It feels great,” Joseph Eskenazi of Redondo Beach, California, told reporters after posing for pictures with his […]
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is raising awareness about suicides among border agents. They promise to address the issue in a new bill. The vaccine mandate for military members is on the verge of being repealed. The White House is disapproving, while a few senators are pushing for more. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s win in the […]
San Franciscans protested the authorization of use-of-force through robots. They cited concerns about militarizing the police and treatment of other citizens. Despite a large budget surplus, forecasters are saying the state is heading for a deficit in the coming years. That comes with increasing unemployment and a slowing economy. Police in Los Angeles made a […]
The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma was struck by multiple torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. The interment comes more than 80 years after the attack that drew the United States into World War II and nearly […]
CHICAGO—A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II. Members of Herbert “Bert” Jacobson’s family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the […]
The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating fuel leakage from a giant government fuel storage take—one that’s hidden inside a mountain ridge, overlooking Pearl Harbor. Military medical teams have examined more than 5,900 people complaining of symptoms, including nausea, headaches, and rashes.
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor with a somber visit to the World War II Memorial in the nation’s capital. The Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and other locations in Hawaii killed 2,403 service members and civilians and […]
President Joe Biden is again urging the Senate to pass his Build Back Better bill. He promotes the bill as a way to lower prescription drug prices—and lists three things the bill would do to make it happen: “First, we are going to cap cost sharing of insulin at $35 per month.” Second, Biden says […]
