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Watching “Oppenheimer,” a journalist wondered (perhaps a bit obsessively): How did the president get the $2 billion secret project past Congress?

For the first time in United States history, the speaker of the House was ousted after eight House Republicans and all Democrats voted to vacate the speakership Tuesday.

Feb. 13, 1890: Readers of The Comet learned about railway plans. “As mentioned last week in the Comet the board met on Thursday to consider a proposition made by Col. W.P. Dunavant and Capt. Sam Tate Jr., asking for the franchise to build a street railroad in Johnson City. After discussing the proposition at length the committee was continued and Gen. Wilder agreed to pay the expenses of sending the committee to Chatta-nooga to investigate the matter thoroughly before the franchise is granted. The committee will go to Chattanooga to-day (sic) and the matter will be settled on their retur...

By Ray Hill As 1945 came to a close, the Second World War had been won by the Allied nations. Adolf Hitler had shot himself in his underground bunker as the Red Army overran his capital of Berlin. Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, had been executed by his own people and strung up by his heels at a filling station, along with the bodies of his mistress and several compatriots where their corpses were abused by angry citizens. The Japanese Empire had crumbled with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, who was co...

By Ray Hill The fascination with royal families is hardly new.  I well remember just how many people were caught up in the wedding of Prince Charles to Diana Spencer.  Like every capital of a civilized country, Washington, D.C. has a vibrant social life and the visit of King George VI and his queen, Elizabeth, to the United States captivated much of the country.    Those folks who have watched The Crown on Netflix realize their daughter is Queen Elizabeth II. The invitation to visit America had come from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and it was heralded throughout the media of the ...