U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.

Thousands of people gathered on the streets of Tokyo to mark the 65th birthday of Japanese Emperor Naruhito. They waved paper ...

If a little ol' hockey tournament featuring the U.S., Canada, Sweden and Finland can capture the sports zeitgeist for a week ...

CELTIC manager Brendan Rodgers has demanded hard evidence from the SFA that Daizen Maeda's late equaliser at Hibs deserved to ...

For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American Flag in Iwo ...

In Feb. 19’s Sun Journal the cartoon by Dave Grunlund is of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. It’s an image that has become synonymous with the extraordinary sacrifice and determination of American ...

Bad news is piling up for cruise ship marketers. In addition to virus outbreaks and port bans, the Trump administration is threatening to enact new taxes on cruise ships.

In the vein that documented historical facts are always a better story, and most certainly stranger than chimerical legends, myths and tall tales, I share this one from the deep ...

Veterans to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the First U.S. Flag Raised on Iwo Jima Japan in Monticello Sunday.

James and Reaves made the biggest shots, got the biggest stops and, on a night when they didn’t have Luka Doncic, pushed the ...

On Feb. 5 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) reintroduced the American Beef Labeling Act. This bill is bipartisan, but our two Iowa senators have yet to sign ...

Praesidus unveils the Iwo Jima 80th Anniversary models ✓ Watches commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima ...