The chant of “Geaux Pokes” echoes in the stands of Navarre Stadium every Saturday night, but on “Victory Day,” instead of rooting for the cowboy players, kids with special needs got to live out their ...

Rhode Island was always an outlier with its Victory Day observance: in 1953 the AP inaccurately called it “the only state in the union that voted to make V-J a legal holiday,” though two years ...

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation designating Thursday as a day for the United States to celebrate victory in World War II as countries in Europe already do. Cities from London to ...

Nov. 11 is the Veterans Day federal holiday in the United States, and only Congress has the authority to create or rename holidays.

May 8 officially became “Victory in Europe Day,” or VE Day, as millions around the world celebrated a new era. Here, millions pour into the streets of Whitehall, London to celebrate VE Day on ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to achieve victory in 'anti-imperialist, anti-U.S.' efforts, as the nation celebrated ...

He signed a proclamation on Wednesday that designates May 8, 2025, as a “day in celebration of Victory Day for World War II.” He's expected to issue a similar proclamation for World War I ...

(Some websites claim Victory Day used to be a federal holiday, too, but that appears to be a myth – there is no evidence for it in an authoritative 1999 U.S. Senate report on the topic.) ...

I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I,” he said last week on social media. “We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of ...