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Illinois sailor killed at Pearl Harbor to be laid to rest, at last

CHICAGO - A 21-year-old sailor will be laid to rest on Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II.Members of Herbert "Bert" Jacobson’s family have waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the young man they knew about but never met. Jacobson was among the more than 400 sailors and Marines killed on the USS Oklahoma during the Dec.

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Biden expected to announce $800M in aid for Ukraine hours after Zelenskyy’s plea to Congress

plea for help to Congress earlier in the day.Biden, who has resisted Zelenskyy's requests to send warplanes to Ukraine fearing escalating the war with Russia, is expected to announce an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, according to a White House official. He's scheduled to deliver remarks at 12:30 p.m.

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Gail Halvorsen, 'Candy Bomber' in Berlin Airlift, dies at age 101

US Air Force veteran Gail Halvorsen (M), known as "Candy Bomber", takes part in the celebration of 70 years of the Berlin Airlift. (Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images) U.S.

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Josh Hartnett Says Walking Away From Hollywood Was ‘The Best Thing’ For His Mental Health

Josh Hartnett knows all too well how overwhelming Hollywood can be.

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3 decades of warnings of an inevitable Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor went unheeded

WASHINGTON - At 12:30 in the afternoon on Dec. 8, 1941, less than 30 hours after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D.

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News Releases from Department of Health | State’s microbiologists provide genomic virus data to shape future pandemic response

Science confirms value of vaccinationsHONOLULU – A team of about a dozen microbiologists and other professionals has been on an important mission for more than a year: to collect and analyze data on the coronavirus to help epidemiologists determine how best to respond to the ongoing pandemic. They’re part of a genomic surveillance project of the Hawai‘i Department of Health’s State Laboratories Division, led by Pamela O’Brien, who has been working in the lab for more than 16 years. The team works in the stately lab building, tucked away on Waimano Ridge, high above Pearl Harbor.

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Dorothy Schmidt Cole, oldest living Marine, dies at the age of 107

Sgt. Dot Cole (Photos: City of Kannapolis, left; US Marine Corps, right) KANNAPOLIS, N.C. - Dorothy Schmidt Cole, recognized last year as the oldest living U.S.

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Arizona man who died in Pearl Harbor attack identified decades later

Carl Spencer Johnson (Courtesy of Dr. Carl Dahl) PHOENIX - An Arizona man, eight decades later, was identified as Carl Johnson, an 18-year-old sailor who was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.Just this year, his family learned his remains had finally been identified and he's now on his long journey back home.Johnson was just 16 years old when he left North High School to join the military.

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U.S. could see more coronavirus deaths per day than 9/11, CDC director warns

coronavirus per day than in the September 11 terrorist attacks for the next two to three months, a top health official warned Thursday about the dark winter likely ahead for the country hardest hit by the pandemic.“We are in the time frame now that, probably for the next 60 to 90 days, we’re going to have more deaths per day than we had at 9/11 or we had at Pearl Harbor,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Robert Redfield told an event hosted by the Council of Foreign Relations, according to accounts from CNN and the Washington Post.

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Military to stream Pearl Harbor remembrance, replacing in-person ceremony due to coronavirus

The Pearl Harbor remembrance ceremony of the Japanese attack on the U.S. Navy base in Hawaii will look a little different this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Pearl Harbor survivors to remember 1941 attack from afar due to pandemic

HONOLULU - Officials were scheduled to gather in Pearl Harbor on Monday to remember those killed in the 1941 Japanese attack, though public health measures adopted because of the coronavirus pandemic mean no survivors will be present.The military will broadcast video of the ceremony live online for survivors and members of the public to watch from afar.“I think it’s too bad, but it’s for safety reasons,” said Warren Upton, a 101-year-old who served on the USS Utah. He plans to watch the event from his home in San Jose, California.A moment of silence is scheduled to be held at 7:55 a.m., the same time the attack began 79 years ago.

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Timeline: Critical events that led up to 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor

HONOLULU - When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, killing 2,400 Americans and injuring an additional 1,200, it became one of the worst attacks ever carried out on American soil.“Since the War of 1812, no foreign power had carried out so devastating an attack on American soil, and virtually all Americans reacted to this one with shock, disbelief, and outrage,” wrote University of Maryland historian Gary Gerstle.On the 79th anniversary, here is a look back at the timeline of events that led up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.July: At the lead of Prince Fumimaro Kanoe, Japan invades North China.AdvertisementJuly: In an attempt to halt Japanese military expansion in Asia, the U.S.

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Oldest living Marine, Sgt. Dot Cole, celebrates her 107th birthday

Marine Corps emblem. (Marine Corps)Dorothy (Schmidt) Cole celebrated her 107th birthday on Sept.

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Floyd Welch, one of the last survivors of Pearl Harbor, dies at 99

HARTFORD, Conn. - Floyd Welch, who was credited with saving the lives of fellow sailors during the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died in Connecticut. He was 99.Welch died peacefully at his home in East Lyme on Monday, his family said.Welch, who was born in February 1921 in Burlington, Connecticut, was serving aboard the USS Maryland on Dec.

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Covid-19 worse attack than Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - Trump

President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of China over the global coronavirus pandemic and said it has been worse for the United States than Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

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Coronavirus worse for US than Pearl Harbor, 9/11: Trump

Trump said fallout from the pandemic has hit the United States harder than the December 7, 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor or the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington

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Navy reports first coronavirus death from Roosevelt crew

Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) arrives in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, April 27, 2018. Image courtesy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jessica Blackwell / Navy Public Affairs Support Element Detachment Hawaii. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty

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Sailor from USS Roosevelt dies from coronavirus

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White House points to hopeful signs as deaths keep rising

WASHINGTON – At the end of a week officials had warned would be this generation's Pearl Harbor, White House officials pointed to hopeful signs that the spread of the coronavirus could be slowing, even as President Donald Trump insisted he would not move to reopen the country until it is safe.

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White House points to hopeful signs as deaths keep rising

WASHINGTON – At the end of a week officials had warned would be this generation's Pearl Harbor, White House officials pointed to hopeful signs Friday that the spread of the coronavirus could be slowing, even as President Donald Trump insisted he would not move to reopen the country until it is safe.

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Trump tempers officials' grave assessments with optimism

WASHINGTON – The U.S. surgeon general says that Americans should brace for levels of tragedy reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, while the nation’s infectious disease chief warned that the new coronavirus may never be completely eradicated from the globe.

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Surgeon general warns US of `saddest week' and `9/11 moment'

WASHINGTON – Surgeon General Jerome Adams offered some of the starkest warnings yet Sunday as he braced Americans for the worsening fallout from the new coronavirus, warning “this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly."

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0