In December 1941, just days after Pearl Harbor, a small U.S. garrison on Wake Island found itself directly in the path of Japan’s Pacific expansion. With limited defenses and only a handful of ...

Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.

In the final months of World War II, Japanese kamikaze attacks threatened to overwhelm the U.S. Navy. This story follows ...

On July 30, 1945, Japanese torpedoes sank the USS Indianapolis, and 880 lives were tragically lost. In this 1991 story, Across Indiana producer Titus Rush interviewed two Hoosiers who were there.

As a fourth, penned: “From the title song to the battle scenes to the acting, this series is a masterpiece joining Band of Brothers in the ranks of the greatest portrayals of WWII, or of any war. I've ...

Capt. Jonathan Furlong, a U.S. Army diver based in Hawaii, has deployed all around the Pacific and Asia. But no country or mission he’s been to has been like his current assignment in Palau, where’s ...

Produced by the Asian Development Bank together with the Asian Development Bank Institute, the Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Forum, and the Griffith Asia Institute, this December 2025 report looks ...

Venezuela has little to nothing to do with the flow of cocaine into the US. But there is oil to be seized and managed by US companies and the Don-roe doctrine to maintain. It has been an accusation ...

Robert Copeland was a newly minted 30-year-old lawyer when he was called up for active duty at the outset of World War II. In October of 1944, at Leyte Gulf, he would steer his outgunned destroyer ...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Dec 29 - Holdings of China's digital yuan, or e-CNY, will start generating interest income next year under a new framework, state broadcaster CCTV said on Monday, as China steps up ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Monday that it had conducted another strike against a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person. In a social media post ...