By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, April 4, the 94th day of 2023. There are 271 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in ...

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, April 3, the 93rd day of 2023. There are 272 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On April 3, 1973, the first handheld portable telephone was demonstrated for reporters on a New York City street corner as Motorola executive Martin ...

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, March 31, the 90th day of 2023. There are 275 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 31, 1991, the Warsaw Pact military alliance came to an end. On this date: In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an ...

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, March 30, the 89th day of 2023. There are 276 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr.; also wounded ...

By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, March 29, the 88th day of 2023. There are 277 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 29, 2004, President George W. Bush welcomed seven former Soviet-bloc nations (Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Latvia ...

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, March 27, the 86th day of 2023. There are 279 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 27, 1977, in aviation’s worst disaster, 583 people were killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashed into ...