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Guest columnist William Lambers: ‘The silence heard round the world’
11-10-2024 8:32 AM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

 The start of the Revolutionary War is known as “the shot heard round the world.” Veterans Day, (Armistice Day) is known for the “silence heard round the world.”It was Nov. 11, 1918 at 11 a.m. when the guns finally went silent, ending the fighting of...

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Election Day unfolds relatively smoothly after massive turnout by early voters
11-05-2024 7:01 PM

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and ALI SWENSON

WASHINGTON (AP) — Election Day unfolded relatively smoothly as voters faced only scattered disruptions and delays after an election season marked by concerns over disinformation, foreign influence and threats to election workers and voting...


Iran fires dozens of missiles into Israel
10-01-2024 3:29 PM

By AAMER MADHANI, JULIA FRANKELand BASSEM MROUE

JERUSALEM — Iran said it fired dozens of missiles into Israel on Tuesday, a sharp escalation of the monthslong conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militias Hezbollah and Hamas. There were no immediate reports of casualties as Israel ordered...


Guest columnist William Lambers: When the presidential candidates fed starving children
09-16-2024 7:25 PM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

Even amid the intense focus on the presidential election, we cannot forget the plight of starving children in Gaza and other war zones. We cannot let these children in need fall off the news radar. Sadly, they do all too often. As history reminds us,...


Guest columnist William Lambers: Labor Day can inspire a much needed farm bill
09-02-2024 6:01 AM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

 The night before Labor Day in 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave one of his famous “fireside chats” to the American people. Roosevelt told the nation on radio about the spirit of America’s farmers in facing difficult drought conditions.“No...


With ‘joyful’ Democratic convention over, real test for Harris campaign now begins
08-23-2024 3:57 PM

By STEVE PEOPLES and ZEKE MILLER

CHICAGO — Over and over, from the massive stage in the electric convention hall, the Democrats this week predicted that Kamala Harris would defeat Donald Trump. They described her as a historic figure, the embodiment of hope, “the president of...


Guest columnist William Lambers: Fight hunger and poverty to reduce migration
08-14-2024 6:48 PM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

 Recently, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley and her son Huck traveled with CARE to see poverty-fighting projects in Honduras. As Williams-Paisley posted on Instagram, “We got to see what happens when we invest in women and climate resilience, and...


Judge nixes Trump classified docs case
07-15-2024 8:12 PM

By ERIC TUCKER

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed by the Justice...


Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
07-13-2024 6:46 PM

By JILL COLVIN and JULIE CARR SMYTH

BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.Trump was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers when bangs started ringing through the crowd. Trump...


Saving spotted owls: Wildlife officials to deploy trained shooters on West Coast to kill 450,000 barred owls
07-05-2024 8:58 AM

By MATTHEW BROWN

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their...


Guest columnist William Lambers: Celebrate America with acts of kindness
07-03-2024 3:45 PM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

 Right before the 4th of July in 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt praised Americans for lending a “neighborly and sympathetic hand” to those in need.In a letter published by newspapers around the nation, Roosevelt wrote about the National War...


FACT FOCUS: Here's a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump's first debate
06-28-2024 8:08 AM

By The Associated Press

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election.Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a...


Guest columnist William Lambers: 80 years later, D-Day inspires us
06-06-2024 6:31 AM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

 When I was growing up in Andover, we had a nice neighbor known as Mr. Burke. He let us go through his backyard when we were setting up a basketball hoop.What I did not know about Mr. Burke until years later, long after we had moved away, was that he...


Thinking peace on Memorial Day
05-27-2024 9:44 AM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

 On Memorial Day we can honor the sacrifices of our soldiers and continue the quest for world peace.As President Dwight Eisenhower said of Memorial Day, “Let us reverently honor those who have fallen in war, and rededicate ourselves through prayer to...


Dial ‘A’ for anachronism: Landlines languishing in US
02-26-2024 7:00 AM

By DEEPTI HAJELA

NEW YORK — When her cellphone’s service went down last week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way — on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with...


Ominous ocean warmth points to an active Atlantic hurricane season ahead
02-20-2024 9:21 AM

By SCOTT DANCE

Hurricane season is still more than three months away, but in parts of the tropical Atlantic, it feels like we might as well already be in the thick of it. Across a strip of ocean where many cyclones are born, February ocean temperatures are closer to...


Guest columnist William Lambers: A tale of two presidents against famine
02-19-2024 6:01 AM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

It was February 1946 when former President Herbert Hoover was contacted by President Harry Truman about an alarming crisis. World War II had been over for months, but there was one fierce enemy remaining: hunger.Food shortages were so bad in the...


Guest columnist Rob Okun: Will men organize to end gun violence?
02-13-2024 4:26 PM

By ROB OKUN

Guest columnist Rob Okun: Will men organize to end gun violence?


Guest columnist William Lambers: Expand child tax credit to reduce hunger and poverty
01-26-2024 8:55 AM

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

Congress can take action against hunger and poverty by bringing back the expanded child tax credit that was so successful in 2021. They can start by voting in favor of the bipartisan tax proposal put forward by Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron...


Trump wins Iowa’s leadoff caucuses
01-15-2024 10:11 PM

By The Associated Press

Donald Trump has won Iowa’s leadoff presidential caucuses.The former president’s victory on Monday night gives him a strong start in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination as the contest moves to New Hampshire.Former U.N. Ambassador...


Burning Man at crossroads: New crowd, changing vibe for iconic counterculture festival
01-05-2024 3:38 PM

By SCOTT SONNER

The blank canvas of desert wilderness in northern Nevada seemed the perfect place in 1992 for artistic anarchists to relocate their annual burning of a towering, anonymous effigy. It was goodbye to San Francisco’s Baker Beach, hello to the Nevada...

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