U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is the winner in the southwestern state of Arizona, according to major U.S. news outlets, adding to his electoral victory even as President Donald Trump refuses to acknowledge defeat. With more than 99 percent of the votes counted in the state, Biden leads President Donald Trump by about 11,000 votes. […]
Longtime Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday from complications with cancer. Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal and the second woman to serve on the court, died at her home in Washington surrounded by her family, according to a statement from the court. She was 87. “Our nation has lost a justice of historic […]
Q: What is V-J Day? A: V-J Day, or Victory Over Japan Day, is the day Japan surrendered to the Allies on August 15, 1945. Japan’s unconditional surrender effectively ended World War Two. Japan’s surrender, which formally occurred aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, came months after Nazi Germany […]
After the country reported its deadliest day of the coronavirus outbreak since May, the nation’s top infectious disease expert says he is not pleased with the way things are going in the United States. “We certainly are not where I hope we would be, we are in the middle of very serious historic pandemic,” […]