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The head of the Irish prison system warned the Department of Justice she had “grave concerns” about the safety of staff and inmates because of dire overcrowding in jails.
The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.
A pair of drones destroyed a Russian radar system and military warehouse facilities at a gas production platform in the Black Sea on Monday, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
Something similar happened in Arizona, where the share of Catholics increased from 14.6% in 2010 to 21.3% in 2020.The U.S. Religion Census, taken every 10 years, counts congregations and ...
Another deep-sea mining firm, Impossible Metals, which has offices in the U.S., Canada, and Saudi Arabia, announced on April 15 that it would apply for a mining license via the Bureau of Ocean ...
A U.S. Coast Guard crew seized roughly 10,000 pounds of cocaine from a fishing boat in the Atlantic Ocean, the agency said on Monday. The haul was worth an estimated $74 million.
The oldest U-boat you can visit is actually the first, as the U-1 wasn't used during WWI for combat operations. It hit another vessel in 1919 and was decommissioned, and now it resides in the ...
The 6,000-square-foot Regency-style Georgian, built in the 1790s, unfurls into a lush garden brimming with waist-high daisies, candy floss pink hydrangeas, and towering palms—all cascading ...
Since golden mussels were recently identified in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, waterways in parts of Northern California and the Bay Area have introduced new rules for boaters.
The Ukrainian Navy patrol boat zipped across the Black Sea, its double-barreled, 25-millimeter machine gun locked on the horizon. The enemy, Russia, was nowhere in sight, yet ever-present.
Pre-orders were set to go live in the U.S. on April 9. Nintendo did not share an updated kick-off date, but did promise that the June 5, 2025 release date of the Switch 2 itself remains intact.
Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...