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“People realized we may not see anything like this again,” says former campaign and White House staffer Heather Foster of the historic 2009 swearing-in of
Fifteen years ago today, the United States of America achieved something that it had not done in its more than 230-year history: a Black president was sworn into office. Former President Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother, took the oath of office on January 20, 2009 to become the […]
When Iranians took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, they held 52 Americans hostage for over 444 days. On this day in 1981, the hostage crisis ended, but that wasn’t the end of the story – or the suffering – for the hostages and their families. The hostage crisis began when Iranians stormed […]
A man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years has reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina involving a lawsuit accusing authorities of misconduct, the man’s lawyers said Tuesday. The settlement, which will end a wrongful incarceration lawsuit filed by attorneys for Ronnie Wallace […]
A Black North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping a prominent white woman has been awarded a historic $25 million settlement more than three years after he was exonerated. Ronnie Long, 68, settled his civil lawsuit with the city of Concord, about 25 miles northeast of […]
A United States naval officer who sent an intelligence officer working for the Chinese government photos of American military installations and details of naval training exercises in Asia was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Monday. The 27-month sentence in federal court for the American officer, Wenheng Zhao, also known as Thomas, […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed into space Monday, but encountered a problem shortly after launch that may prevent it from reaching the moon. The spacecraft, developed by a private company called Astrobotic Technology, lifted off at 2:18 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the […]
In this image made from NASA video, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket with Astrobotic Technology’s lander onboard is launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, Monday, Jan 8, 2024. AP hide caption toggle caption AP In this image made from NASA video, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket with Astrobotic Technology’s lander onboard is […]
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U.N. rights chief condemns Israeli talk of resettling Gazans Alexander Smith The United Nations’ top human rights official says he is “very disturbed by high-level Israeli officials’ statements” calling for Palestinians in Gaza to be moved to neighboring Arab countries. Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner on human rights, cautioned in a post on X […]