Joe Biden's Pardon of Black Civil Rights Leader Corrects 'Injustice'
Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's ...
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They won the war. Can Syria's new leaders rebuild the country?
Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...
The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
What We Know About Ahmed al-Shara, Syria’s Interim President
The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a ...
Shrewsbury Township’s Blue Ball Inn hosted many historical events
A strong oral tradition ties Lafayette’s visit to the Blue Ball Inn, on the Old York Road south of Shrewsbury. That tale of ...
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The World’s Largest Rubber Plantation is About to Go on Strike
Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.
Supreme Court will weigh approval for first US publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma
The justices said Friday they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board's approval of an ...
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Prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez dies at 76
José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement ... later resulted in the upending of politics in the American Midwest. The PBS documentary “The First Rainbow ...
While signing Laken Riley Act, Trump says he’ll send ‘worst’ criminal migrants to Guantanamo
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to ...