On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

That said, the City of Washington is only one of over 5,000 shipwrecks off Florida’s coast. Hundreds of these vessels were ...

The Mexican-American War, fought to preserve slavery, helped bring on its destruction in the Civil War and imposed a border ...

Mallorca waited and it waited; the invasion was never going to happen. War between Spain and America wasn't declared until April 1898, but the panic in Mallorca had kicked in with the sinking of the ...

HAVANA - It was a little before 10 p.m. on Feb. 15, 1898, when a fiery explosion roiled the normally calm waters of Havana Harbor, blowing out windows in the city and sinking the USS Maine. Just the ...

NEWS CENTER Maine sent crews to San Francisco, California to cover the upcoming Super Bowl, where the New England Patriots ...

Patriots fan and Kennebunk resident Don Crisman has been to every single Super Bowl since the first one in 1967.

Ronald “Ron” H. Bean, of Waterford, Vt., passed away on Feb. 2, 2026, at the Lafayette Center in Franconia, N.H., surrounded ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying warships have arrived in the Middle East, ...

The next Gerald R. Ford class supercarrier, to be known as the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), set sail under its own power from Newport News for the first time on Jan. 28, 2026 to begin manufacturer ...

A US snowstorm caused a private jet plane crash during takeoff at Maine Airport, carrying 8 people. | One of India's leading ...

Amanda Aussems-Poskanzer of Slingerlands led hundreds during a weekly Run for Their Lives walk through Albany for more than ...