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Opinion

US: Huckabee’s comments on Israel, Middle East taken out of context

Columns

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An uproar continued Sunday after the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East, as more Arab and Muslim countries objected and the U.S. said his comments were taken out of context. Huckabee spoke in an interview with ...

Almanac for Feb. 23, 2026

Columns

Today is Monday, Feb. 23, the 54th day of 2026. There are 311 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags. (The second flag-raising was captured in an iconic photograph by Joe ...

Olympic jumpers show Pine Mountain draws top talent

Editorials

Bouquet From The Daily News: While it remains to be seen how well the weather will cooperate, the spectacle that is the Sanford Health Marshfield Clinic FIS Continental Cup will again make Iron Mountain a destination this weekend. This year's event gained some added luster when past ...

Big Brother is making you watch him

Columns

A poster depicting an enormous face gazed from the wall. The caption ran, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." So wrote George Orwell at the open of his dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four." Big Brother's image was everywhere, on printed material and on telescreens blasting state propaganda in ...

Trump warns limited strikes possible on Iran

Columns

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump warned on Friday that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country's top diplomat said Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days after nuclear talks with the United States. In response to a reporter's question ...