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The dollar strengthened to a more than two-week high against the yen on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump pledged more trade-related proclamations after announcing 25% tariffs on Japan and ...

Construction of the Washington commenced at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, where her keel was laid down on June 14, 1938.

That would mean Japan’s surrender was official and they could turn back to Guam. It never came, and late on the night of August 14, 1945, the last fire raid of World War II began.

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"When you look at Hiroshima, if you look at Nagasaki, that ended a war, too," Trump said, referring to a pair of U.S. nuclear strikes on Japan in 1945 that essentially ended World War II.

The dollar hovered near more than a two-week high against the yen on Wednesday as U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on seven countries, after earlier this week imposing 25% tariffs on ...