• The iconic Goodyear Blimp is 100. To celebrate, a flight over Ohio
    The iconic Goodyear airships are taking a victory lap over the skies of an Ohio city this week. The Akron-based tire company is celebrating the 100th anniversary of “Pilgrim,” its first blimp to take flight just outside of the city on June 3, 1925. Goodyear began experimenting with vessels that would be lighter than aircraft […]
  • Suspect planned to kill all in group he called ‘Zionist,’ but appeared to have second thoughts
    BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A man in Boulder disguised as a gardener who wounded 12 people in an attack on a group holding their weekly demonstration for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza had planned to kill them all but appeared to have second thoughts, according to authorities. Mohamed Sabry Soliman had 18 Molotov […]
  • North Dakota’s historic sites will finally have toilets that flush
    BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Lawrence Welk didn’t have a flush toilet where he grew up, but visitors to his childhood home in rural North Dakota now do. The bandleader’s childhood family home marks the latest step in the State Historical Society of North Dakota’s nearly completed goal of installing flush toilets at its dozen most […]
  • OAN’s Pentagon reporter learns the limits of expressing her own opinion
    Assigned to cover the Pentagon for the conservative outlet One America News Network, Gabrielle Cuccia didn’t pretend to be an unbiased reporter. She describes herself as “a MAGA girl” who is unapologetically defiant in her support of President Donald Trump. Yet days after publicly criticizing a Trump appointee, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Cuccia found herself […]
  • Attack at demonstration calling for Israeli hostages’ release was first where group faced violence
    Demonstrators with Run for Their Lives have staged global events since 2023 calling for Hamas to release Israeli hostages, but organizers say Sunday’s walk in Boulder, Colorado, where 12 people were injured in a fiery attack, was the first in which they have faced violence. The group was wrapping their weekly demonstration at a bustling […]