In 2016, J.D. Vance published his memoir Hillbilly Elegy to unexpected commercial success. The book, as much an intricate reflection on white working-class Americans as a personal history, became a controversial hit among Democrats…
When Paula Peters was in second grade in Philadelphia in the mid-1960s, listening to a teacher talk about Plymouth colony and the Mayflower, a student asked what happened to the…
Keita O’Neil was fatally shot by a rookie San Francisco police officer in 2017 after he allegedly carjacked a state lottery employee's van. A former San Francisco police officer who…
The votes have been counted (and recounted) and the results have been announced. The bushel of hail Mary lawsuits have been filed, appealed, dismissed, and all but laughed at. Countless…
The U.S. will still emit bounties of carbon into the atmosphere this year. In a tweet about greenhouse gases, Ivanka Trump has redefined ignorance. On Tuesday, the president's daughter, an…
Russian police have raided the Jehovah's Witnesses nationwide and made arrests in a new criminal case against the banned Christian-based group. The Investigative Committee (SK) posted a video on YouTube…
Hundreds of people in a town in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region were stabbed, strangled and hacked to death in an apparent ethnically based attack that may amount to crimes against…
Charles Schulz’s A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is a classic Peanuts special from 1973that airs during the holidays. But one particular scene has been stirring up controversy in recent years. In the scene, Franklin, who is…
25 Nov 2020 UNICEF is planning to ship nearly 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries in 2021. It is working with over 350 airlines and freight companies…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have shut down the South Texas warehouse where chain-link enclosures were deplored as “cages” during the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrant families and children.…