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On December 16, UFO researchers and enthusiasts, along with the general public, were treated to an unexpected gift from the New York Times . In a front-page investigation, the country's most august news organization grappled with a topic that's usually relegated to the fringes, detailing a $22 million Pentagon effort to study unexplained aerial phenomena that ran from 2007 to 2012.
On Dec. 23, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, on his way home from a visit to Australia and Southeast Asia, held an unprecedented meeting with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican; during the two-hour conference, Johnson asked the pope for help in bringing a peaceful end to the Vietnam War. In 1788, Maryland passed an act to cede an area "not exceeding ten miles square" for the seat of the national government; about two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.
The Pentagon has admitted to establishing a $22 million dollar program to studying unidentified flying objects, otherwise known as UFOs. According to a report from Politico , Congress, specifically then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, instructed the Pentagon in 2007 to create a program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
As Americans look back and honor service members across the country on Veterans Day, one unit's work is largely left out of the mainstream conversation. With the motto "Go for broke," the unit was made up of Japanese-Americans who served the U.S. during World War II - a time of rampant anti-Japanese sentiment.
In this Aug. 2, 2017, file photo, Hawaii Gov. David Ige talks at a groundbreaking ceremony for Hawaii's first public hydrogen fueling station in Honolulu. U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa of Hawaii plans to challenge Gov. David Ige in the gubernatorial race.
University of Hawaii: Sen. Inouye's congressional papers available to the public . "The congressional archival papers of the late Daniel K. Inouye, who served 53 years in Congress, 50 in the U.S. Senate, are now available to the public via the University of Hawai i at Manoa Library Congressional Papers Collection.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hugs Pearl Harbor survivor Everett Hyland after speaking Tuesday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam near the USS Arizona Memorial. PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- The leaders of Japan and the United States took to the hallowed waters of Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did not apologize but conceded that Japan "must never repeat the horrors of war again."
Former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who is returning to the seat she once held in the U.S. House, says she's happy to go back to Washington, but she's less happy that Republican Donald Trump was elected president. "I just didn't expect the rest of the nation to vote as resoundingly as they did," Hanabusa said shortly after results of her own election were announced.
Hawaii's high-quality seafood is sold with the promise that it's caught by local, hardworking fishermen. But the people who haul in the prized catch are almost all foreign workers, confined to American boats for years at a time without basic rights or protections.
Hawaii's high-quality seafood is sold with the promise that it's caught by local, hard-working fishermen. But the people who haul in the prized catch are almost all undocumented foreign workers, confined to American boats for years at a time without basic rights or protections.
The incumbent Senator seeks his first full term as he was appointed to replace the late Sen. Daniel Inouye in 2012 ... . Voters arrive at a polling station held at Kawananakoa Middle School for the primary Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Honolulu.
US Senator Brian Schatz waves to drivers as he campaigns for reelection, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Honolulu. The incumbent Senator seeks his first full term as he was appointed to replace the late Sen. Daniel Inouye in 2012 and won a special election in 2014 to serve out the remainder of the term.
US Senator Brian Schatz waves to drivers as he campaigns for reelection, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Honolulu. The incumbent Senator seeks his first full term as he was appointed to replace the late Sen. Daniel Inouye in 2012 and won a special election in 2014 to serve out the remainder of the term.
" U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa didn't want to leave Washington when she gave up her House seat to run for the Senate two years ago. But she hoped to fulfill the dying wish of U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, a beloved Hawaii Democrat who spent five decades in office and wanted her to take his place.