Charles Gridley News Today

The Navy's tradition of flying battle flags is as old as America itself. Here's an (incomplete) guide to the service's best battle ensigns.

At the stroke of midnight tonight, India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation. According to the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, “by the end of this month, India’s population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people, matching and then surpassing the population of mainland China.”

On May 1, 1898, the United States won its first major engagement of the Spanish-American War at Manila Bay in the Philippines. The American fleet’s flagship, the USS Olympia, was for a brief moment the most famous ship in the world. It was named for the City of Olympia.