APP USERS: Click here to get the quiz! The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including current news and the sights and sounds of the United States. This week’s quiz above is highlighted by the wide world of apples — and by pioneering talents of...
John Philip Holland’s brilliance transcended time, distance — and depth. Widely proclaimed “the father of the modern submarine,” Holland was born in Ireland and moved to the United States as a young man with the audacious idea of building a “submergible torpedo boat” that could fight silently beneath the waves. He succeeded in remaking maritime...
Navy shipbuilding has had its worst production in 25 years, putting the U.S. behind rival China in production pace. “I don’t see a fast, easy way to get out of this problem. It’s taken us a long time to get into it,” Eric Labs, a longtime naval analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, told ABC...
The Justice Department announced an indictment Thursday against two Iranian brothers and a Pakistani national linked to a U.S. military operation off the coast of Somalia in January that resulted in the deaths of two Navy SEALs. Shahab and Yunus Mir’kazei — who federal prosecutors say work for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – and...
An unclaimed Navy veteran is being laid to rest Wednesday in Wichita, Kansas, in the presence of his community.Stephen J. Morrison, born in 1958, was honorably discharged from the United States Navy in 1977.After no relations claimed him after his death last month, Morrison is being given full military honors for his funeral service at...
Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat, is rumored to be under consideration to serve as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate in the 2024 presidential election. Kelly, a 60-year-old former astronaut and U.S. Navy captain, has represented Arizona in the U.S. Senate since 2020. Kelly was elected to the Senate in a 2020 special election...
You might say Tito Puente was born to connect cultures. Puente, after all, is the Spanish word for bridge. The New York City native, born to parents from Puerto Rico, found fame the world over as the Latin King, the Mambo King or, simply, El Rey — the King, in Spanish. His story is all...
President Joe Biden rightly argues that the world’s democracies are now pitted against a bloc of autocracies led by Beijing and Moscow. This strategic precept was the basis of the Pentagon’s NationalDefenseStrategy during my tenure. What we described then as Great Power Competition has evolved into outright conflict in Ukraine and increasing Chinese belligerence in...
On Feb. 15, 1862, Sen. Henry Wilson, R-Mass., then chair of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, introduced a resolution for a Medal of Honor for the Army, according to the U.S. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Congress approved this resolution — and President Abraham Lincoln signed...
A U.S. Navy sailor attempted to access President Biden’s medical records through a government database, the Navy said Tuesday, as questions and concerns about his mental capacity continue to hound the commander in chief. The unidentified sailor conducted the search on Feb. 23 by typing “Joseph Biden,” a Navy official told Fox News Digital. “On...
