Rob Kauder

Over the years they have received many monikers, some more irreverent than others: Soldiers of the sea. Teufelhund. Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children. Leatherneck. Jarhead. Crayon eaters. But at the end of 13 grueling weeks of boot camp the most important title remains United States Marine.

Oct. 13, 2025 , is a milestone for sailors past and present as the U.S. Navy celebrates its 250th birthday. From battling British ships in the Caribbean, fighting pirates off the Barbary Coast to stopping the Japanese at Midway, the Navy has been an important element in U.S. foreign policy.

About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I’ve known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of World War II European battlefields?

The Spokane Police Department has a number of “less lethal” devices it can use in specific circumstances to subdue individuals and disperse crowds, some of which were deployed during Wednesday’s immigration protest at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in north Spokane.

As the SpaceX Crew-10 spacecraft prepares for its launch from the Kennedy Space Center next Wednesday, commanded by Spokane’s Col. Anne McClain on her second mission to the International Space Station, what better time than now to look at five great movies about spaceflight.

Over the years dozens of movies and television miniseries have been produced about World War II in Europe and the Pacific, but of those, there are only a handful that touched upon the event that thrust the United States into the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor, 83 years ago Saturday.

5:30 a.m. – If you were a subscriber of The Spokesman-Review, the top headlines in the morning paper on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, were the German attack on Moscow and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt writing the Emperor of Japan about troop movements in the Far East. Meanwhile, the top story in the sports section was Washington State College’s loss to Texas A & M in the Evergreen Bowl.

Multiple school districts and university campuses are closed and crews are out running plow trucks as the Inland Northwest woke up Wednesday morning under a blanket of several inches of fresh powder.