
FILE - Foreign helpers do some maintenance work on their fishing tools while sitting on their boat docked at the Tomari fishery port in Naha in the main Okinawa island, southern Japan, on June 1, 2023. The Japanese government on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, adopted plans to scrap its current foreign trainee program, criticized as a cover for importing cheap labor, and replace it with a new system that it says will actually teach skills and safeguard their rights as Japan desperately seeks to attract more foreign workers to supplement its aging and shrinking workforce. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae, File)
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Military parade celebrates Army’s 250th
Cheers and chants rang out Saturday from a crowd of thousands as soldiers manned modern and historic tanks and aircraft for the Army’s 250th anniversary celebration in the District.



Ovi scores goal 890, Caps lose to Sabres 8-5
Alexander Ovechkin scored goal number 890, but the Washington Capitals fell short, losing to the visiting Buffalo Sabres Sunday afternoon 8-5 at Capital One Arena in Washington D.C., March 30, 2025 (Photos for the Washington Times.)

Hegseth joins veterans, generals to mark 80th anniversary of battle of Iwo Jima
A handful of retired Marines – all in the late 90s or over 100 — joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Prime Minister Takeru Ishida on Saturday to mark the anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of World War II in the Pacific that ended 80 years ago this week.






