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Donald Trump spent his Saturday at the Vatican, attending the funeral of Pope Francis along with his wife Melania and leaders from more than 150 countries. Before the ceremony, the US president met with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the first time since their heated Oval Office exchange in February. This time, the two […]
“What’s he done now?” My parents live in Cairo and I’m in New York City. We FaceTime once a week and that question is like a game we play. My parents ask about Donald Trump and I ask about Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, whom Trump calls “my favourite dictator”. Aren’t we Egyptian-Americans lucky – a dictator […]
Outside the Lajas Blancas migrant camp in southern Panama, wooden shops are boarded up. A bed of cold ash lies in an iron drum barbecue which once served meat skewers to hungry migrants. Six months ago, hundreds of people would pass through the camp every day, emerging from the jungles of the Darién Gap between […]
Portrait of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, ca. 1915 Scurlock Studio RecordsArchives CenterNMAH, Smithsonian Institution His Early Life and Quest for Knowledge Born on December 19, 1875 in New Canton, Virginia, Carter Godwin Woodson was the fourth of nine children born to parents who had been enslaved. As an African American boy growing up in central […]
Pending home sales in the United States slid to an all-time low in January as high mortgage rates, record-high home prices, and possibly . . .
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is falling again Tuesday as U.S. households get more pessimistic about the economy because of inflation, tariffs and other policies coming from Washington. The S&P 500 was down 0.8% in midday trading. It’s coming off a three-day losing streak after setting . . .
“At that point, I realized that this was what I wanted to collect,” Chevremont says. “I noticed that a lot of the artists were not being collected by people that looked like us, and also, if they were, it was not the contemporary artists.” She would go on to join the museum’s acquisitions committee. The […]
Until the 21st century, the contributions of African-American soldiers in World War II barely registered in America’s collective memory of that war. The “tan soldiers,” as the Black press affectionately called them, were also for the most part left out of the triumphant narrative of America’s “Greatest Generation.” In order to tell their story of […]
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Sales of new U.S. single-family homes increased more than expected in December, further evidence that housing market activity regained some momentum at the end of 2024, though rising mortgage rates remain a constraint. The report from the Commerce Department on Monday also showed the rebound in home sales in November […]
“Since when do you listen to Bad Bunny?” That is what my friend texted after I sent her a link to the track “DtMF.” It’s true — I don’t typically listen to music in Spanish or by Bad Bunny (Benito Martínez Ocasio), who I’ll refer to as Ocasio moving forward. At the same time, the […]