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CNN — While growing up in California, Melissa Regan envisioned herself eventually moving to New York, getting a job in finance and enjoying “living in the big city.” But after signing up for a semester in Vienna, Austria and “accidentally” ending up studying in France in 1999, Melissa Regan found herself permanently living in another […]
New York prosecutors this week returned two modernist drawings Nazis seized over 80 years ago to relatives of a Jewish cabaret performer killed at Dachau. Fritz Grünbaum, a Viennese singer and comedian who was outspoken against Hitler in his act, is believed to have owned at least 450 works of art before the Nazis annexed […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing knew its latest driver would be controversial, so much so that the social media manager turned off the ability to comment on posts announcing the hiring. Juri Vips, a 23-year-old from Estonia, will make his IndyCar debut this Sunday at Portland International Raceway and finish the season […]
The Yale campus will be closed on Monday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth, which many Black Americans consider “a second Independence Day,” but a series of local events will offer opportunities to celebrate and reflect on the meaning of the day. On Saturday, June 17, the Yale African American Affinity Group (YAAA) and the […]
The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process. The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants […]
Tufts Medical Center hit a symbolic milestone in its main Boston hospital in Chinatown last week: For the first time in more than three years in the pandemic they had zero COVID-19 patients. It lasted for just one day, but it had a big impact, said Dr. Shira Doron, chief infection control officer for the […]
Just weeks ago, American diplomats thought Sudan was on the verge of a breakthrough agreement that would advance its transition from military dictatorship to full-fledged democracy, delivering on the soaring promise of the country’s revolution in 2019. Sudan had become an important test case in President Biden’s
The Black Panther Party and the US Organization signed a peace treaty on Oct. 22 to signify the unity between the two groups Photo Courtesy of Henry Lee Wallace The US Organization and the San Diego Original Black Panther Party for Community and Empowerment delegates preparing to enter the World Beat Center to sign the […]
I first glimpsed the Donbas through the steamy windows of a clattering overnight train. It was a June morning in 2010, and the rising sun heated the carriage I shared with two dozen half-dressed passengers. The odour of unbathed bodies and boiled eggs, my coachmates’ dinner the night before, hung in the stilted air. I wiped […]
The Grammys ended in controversy, again. Here’s what to know The Associated Press – en Español Source link