GENEVA (AP) — Nearly 55% of voters in Switzerland on Sunday rejected an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country’s population at 10 million, early results showed. The populist Swiss People's Party, which has the most seats in parliament, has ...
Today is Saturday, June 13, the 164th day of 2026. There are 201 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study of America’s involvement in Vietnam since 1945 that had been leaked to the paper by military analyst Daniel Ellsberg. Also on this date: In 1942, during World War II, a four-man Nazi sabotage team arrived by submarine on Long Island, New York, three days before a second four-man team landed in Florida. (All eight men were arrested within weeks, after two members of the first group ...
Bouquet We are the granddaughter and great-grandchildren of Medio J. Bacco, and we wish to commend and thank Ed McBroom for advocating to designate the portion of U.S. 8 from the Michigan-Wisconsin border to its intersection with U.S. 2 in Norway as the “Medio J. Bacco Memorial Highway.” While our grandfather (great-grandfather) paved this section of roadway — one of the first paved highways in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula — and later built a successful business in road construction, aggregate production, and related industries, we believe he would most want to be remembered ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge cleared the way for President Donald Trump's name to be removed from the Kennedy Center's exterior Friday, denying a last-minute request from the institution's board that would have kept the name in place. With storms gathering near Washington before a ...
Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna conceded at a rally for the Maine senatorial candidate that Graham Platner's actions have not been sterling. Voters considering Platner don't like his "shameful" actions against women, the Californian said, but "they are willing to extend him grace and ...
