Skip to Content

Month: December 2023

A father and his 6-year-old daughter were fishing on Lake Michigan. Then they stumbled upon a century-old shipwreck

By Zoe Sottile and Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — When Tim Wollak’s 6-year-old daughter first saw something unusual while fishing in Lake Michigan, she thought it was an octopus. But the unusual item they detected off Wisconsin’s Green Island over the summer turned out to be something much more rare: The never-before-seen wreck of a

Continue Reading

Marine Corps holiday lunch

Fifty active duty Marines and sailors received a special holiday meal this Saturday. They enjoyed music, food and gifts all throughout the morning. Leonard Abramowitz is fan favorite amongst active duty members and veterans.  Even as a veteran himself, he is giving back and serving Marines from Twentynine Palms. On Saturday, he helped put on a holiday

Continue Reading

Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest

BOSTON (AP) — Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence. The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of the throwing of tea leaves into the city’s harbor and community meetings that preceded the defiant

Continue Reading

3 hostages mistakenly killed by Israeli troops had been holding a white flag, military officials say

By JULIA FRANKEL, NAJIB JOBAIN and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Three Israeli hostages who were mistakenly shot by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip had been waving a white flag and were shirtless when they were killed, military officials said Saturday, in Israel’s first such acknowledgement of harming any hostages in its

Continue Reading

Under the shadow of war in Gaza, Jesus’ traditional birthplace is gearing up for a subdued Christmas

By JULIA FRANKEL and JALAL BWAITEL Associated Press BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas, without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square, after officials in Jesus’ traditional birthplace decided to forgo celebrations due to the Israel-Hamas war. The cancellation of Christmas festivities, which typically

Continue Reading