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Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have once again done a public service. Like “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific” before it, the new series “Masters of the Air” is a…
Ottawa CNN — Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons Anthony Rota resigned his post Tuesday, days after he praised a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi military unit…
Ottawa CNN — Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on behalf of Canada’s parliament Wednesday, referring to the “deeply embarrassing” incident last week that saw the chamber applaud a…
CNN — The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons has apologized after celebrating a Ukrainian veteran who fought for a Nazi military unit in World War II. In a speech…
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer so famously after watching his brainchild, the first atomic bomb, explode in the New Mexico desert on…
CNN — Malaysian authorities have detained a Chinese-flagged cargo ship amid reports of the salvaging of World War II shipwrecks in Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone, according to a report from…
CNN — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking or damaging…
Reuters — Germany has rebuffed the latest push by Poland’s nationalist government for vast reparations over World War II, saying in response to a diplomatic note that the issue was…
A Missouri elementary school will be shuttered after high levels of radioactive waste were discovered on the campus, which sits next to a site where nuclear weapons were produced during…
Milton Snavely Hershey, a German-speaking Mennonite farmer who turned his passion for confections into a symbol of American affluence and goodwill, was born in Derry Township, Penn., on this day…