Can I claim to have predicted, way back in 1988, the result of Michigan's fiercely contested Democratic primary for U.S. senator this week? The developments that have made Abdul El-Sayed — who lost the 2018 gubernatorial primary to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., by 20 percentage points — ...
Today is Monday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2026. There are 143 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2020, a powerful derecho struck several Midwest U.S. states, causing four fatalities and an estimated $11 billion in damage, making it the costliest thunderstorm in modern U.S. history. Also on this date: In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.) In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state admitted to the Union. In 1945, a day after the ...
The war in Iran is unlawful and unconstitutional, but in post-World War II America, it is normal. Here is the backstory. When President Donald Trump decided to begin bombing Iran last June, he did not state a coherent or lawful reason for doing so. His director of national intelligence and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Saturday it expects every officer and agent in the field to be equipped with a body camera by the end of August, a rapid expansion that could provide an unprecedented visual record of the federal government’s immigration ...
Superiorland residents, indeed residents of the Upper Peninsula in general, who are of a certain age cringe when the word alewife is mentioned. That’s because even an average memory will vividly recall U.P. beaches in the 1960s and ’70s being a foot deep in dead alewives, reeking to high heavens, making swimming all but impossible. Where did they come from? These little invasive fish found their way into the Great Lakes from the ocean in the 19th and 20th centuries via canals. Once here, and facing no natural predators, they ate massive amounts of zooplankton, starving native fish ...
