After Tarawa showed the terrible cost of attacking fortified islands head-on, American commanders increasingly turned to bypassing and neutralizing Japanese strongholds. Rabaul and Truk proved that ...

San Francisco's infamous former federal prison Alcatraz Island abruptly closed its ports on Monday, April 20, after the National Park Service announced it needed to conduct repairs on the island. The ...

And then there were three. Merritt Island and Melbourne both advanced in the FHSAA baseball playoffs with victories on Friday night. Cocoa Beach then advanced with a win on Saturday. Viera, Eau Gallie ...

Unless you're on a cruise touring the Hawaiian islands, the main mode of transportation between islands is commercial airplane. (There is a ferry between Lanai and Maui, which costs adults $30 for one ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A fire that tore through a Malaysian coastal settlement on Borneo Island destroyed about 1,000 homes and displaced over 9,000 people, authorities said. Subscribe to read this ...

For a TODAY exclusive, Jenna Bush Hager has sat down with each of the four former living U.S. presidents. During their sitdown, presidents Joe Biden, 83; Barack Obama, 64; Bill Clinton, 79; and her ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that he plans to remain as a board governor after his term ends in May, announcing the move after the central bank again left its benchmark ...

Tonight: A few scattered showers will continue across parts of the island tonight as cloudy skies slowly begin to break apart overnight. Rainfall should stay light overall, with only some wet roads ...

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CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...