WASHINGTON, October 22, 2016 -The new Smithsonian Museum of African American History, Culture and Community was opened on the Mall in Washington, D.C. The cost of the new museum was $540 million, with 50 percent of those funds coming from taxpayers. The museum has a collection of more than 36,000 artifacts and more than 100,000 […]
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USAAs the election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump nears, the prospects have never been greater that the United States could join the 50 other democracies that have been led by a woman. So it’s timely to ask: What might this mean for American gender equality and foreign policy? A lot. Given Clinton’s mixed trajectory
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International, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — I was born in 1947. When I was growing up on the north side of Chicago, I had no inkling that the Chicago Cubs had played in a World Series two years earlier, let alone that the last time they won the Series was in 1908. All I knew
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was sentenced Monday to 10 to 23 months in jail for orchestrating an illegal news leak to damage a political enemy, capping a spectacular downfall for a woman who three years ago was seen as one of the state’s fastest-rising stars. “The case is about ego,
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USAWith the clock running out on Donald Trump’s campaign and a catastrophic loss looking more likely, politicos are snickering that the careers of his advisers and strategists will be sacrificed in the process. But at least one of them, legendary Republican dirty trickster Roger Stone, has plans for life after Trump, including writing a book
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USACHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs have withdrawn their offer of face-value World Series tickets to Chicago aldermen after a city ethics board determined that taking the team up on the offer could violate a ban on elected officials accepting gifts worth more than $50. Three aldermen on Monday confirmed that the team had withdrawn the
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Sports & Competitions, USADonald Trump on Monday defended himself against the latest allegations of sexual misconduct by pointing out that the accuser worked as an adult film actress. “One said, ‘He grabbed me on the arm.’ And she’s a porn star,” Trump said in an interview with a New Hampshire radio station. “Now you know, this one that
MIAMI — Something is missing from President Barack Obama’s list. “Progress is on the ballot,” he said at a campaign rally here last week. “Tolerance is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Equality is on the ballot. Our democracy is on the ballot!” It’s not as if Obama forgot that Hillary Clinton, the
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USADETROIT — Buick is ranked third in the latest annual Consumer Reports ranking of the most reliable automotive brands, marking the first time a domestic brand has been in the top three. Even so, Asian brands continued to dominate the influential consumer magazine’s rankings. Of 29 brands, Asian nameplates accounted for 7 of the top
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USAThe “alt-right” website Breitbart News is reportedly set to announce that they have hired former ESPN analyst Curt Schilling to host a conservative talk radio show. Schilling was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League on Friday for “positioning Israel as a partisan issue” after he pushed the anti-Semitic trope that American Jewish people should all support
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Middle East, USALOS ANGELES — In 2011, a tour bus returning from a casino overturned on a highway in the Bronx and rammed into a support pole on a sign, killing 15 people and injuring several others. Five years later, another tour bus returning from a casino crashed — this one on a Southern California freeway. The
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USAI am pro-life. I have been for as long as I can remember. I went to crisis pregnancy center events with my parents when I was a kid. I remember painting pro-life signs with my mom. I believe that every life is precious and every human being is created in the image of God. I
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USACHICAGO — Chicago radio legend Herb Kent, the longest-running DJ in the history of radio and a fixture on local airwaves for more than 70 years, died Saturday. He was 88. Kent’s death was announced Sunday by executives at V103, where Kent worked for the past three decades. Also known as “The Cool Gent,” “King
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAMINNEAPOLIS — Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73. Vee, whose
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