Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library tells the story of Newark-born Ewing Israel Thrapp's U.S. Navy service.
Trump has ramped up bombing in Yemen to combat the Houthi rebels. But airstrikes alone may take months, if at all, to deter the Iran-armed group.
Amidst the unpredictable arc of crisis shadowing the Middle East, the systemic and sustained merchant shipping attacks in the Red Sea persist. The culprits are a shadowy but lethal Iranian proxy force ...