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There's a special story unfolding at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum in Kentucky, where eastern golden eagles have made their winter home. Scientists have been tracking golden eagles since the 1970s, but the first known pair to be tracked simultaneously in eastern North America was at Bernheim. ...

Michael Barone

Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There's a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number — 1,486 days altogether — is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border on Feb. 22, 2022, and headed for Kyiv. The second number — just 20 days — is the ...

Josh Hammer

The joint American-Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime is now three weeks old, but there is another war — a more silent one — raging here on the home front. President Donald Trump's second administration is facing a highly coordinated shadow war — one waged both by some ...

Mona Charen

Two weeks after the start of the Iran War, the picture is coming into focus. Why would a president who promised countless times not to start new wars have leapt into this conflict? As always in the age of Trump, it's necessary to separate the president's motives and mindset from the old ways ...

A letter from the editor

Dear Readers: In perhaps what is the understatement of the year, last week was a wild one. In the last few days of the previous week, the National Weather Service forcasted what they called an "historic winter storm." Predictions of as much as four feet of snow in some locations across the UP were made. In anticipation of this record-breaking event, schools, offices, churches and more began closing well in advance. On Saturday of last week, Michigan Tech made the almost unheard of decision to close offices and cancel classes for Sunday and Monday. It was surreal to hear about classes ...

Cal Thomas

President Trump has signed an executive order creating a task force to crackdown on fraud in government programs. It will be headed by Vice president JD Vance. This is the administration's second effort to reduce government misspending and overspending following Elon Musk's effort as head of ...