Today in History: April 23, Vietnam veterans stage protest at U.S. CapitolToday is Wednesday, April 23, the 113th day of 2025. There are 252 days left in the year.Today in history:On April 23, 1971, hundreds of Vietnam War veterans opposed to the conflict protested by tossing their medals and ribbons[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2025. There are 259 days left in the year.Today in history:On April 16, 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life. It remains the deadliest school history in[Read More…]

MATTHEW BROWN BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation announced Friday that cites dangers from wildfires.Whether the move will boost lumber supplies as Trump envisioned in an[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, April 9, the 99th day of 2025. There are 266 days left in the year.Today in history:On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia after four years of Civil War[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, April 2, the 92nd day of 2025. There are 273 days left in the year.Today in history:On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol Józef Wojtyła, died in his Vatican apartment at age 84. The first non-Italian pope in over 450 years, John[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, March 26, the 85th day of 2025. There are 280 days left in the year.Today in history:On March 26, 2024, Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a container ship, killing six maintenance workers on the bridge. (Maryland officials have announced plans to replace[Read More…]

Dave SkrettaAP Basketball Writer UC San Diego coach Eric Olen knew that his team would be good this season.This good? Maybe not quite.The Tritons were playing Division II ball just five years ago, when the pandemic shut down its tournament and may have kept his team from winning a national[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, March 19, the 78th day of 2025. There are 287 days left in the year.Today in history:On March 19, 2003, in a televised address, President George W. Bush announced that coalition forces had begun an invasion of Iraq. (Bush would declare victory just over five weeks later[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, March 12, the 71st day of 2025. There are 294 days left in the year.Today in history:On March 12, 1930, Mohandas Gandhi began his 24-day, 240 mile (387 kilometer) “Salt March” to the Indian village of Dandi (then called Navsari) as an act of non-violent civil disobedience[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, March 5, the 64th day of 2025. There are 301 days left in the year.Today in history:On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.Also on this date:In 1933, in German[Read More…]