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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has inaugurated a new Mexico City airport, one of his four hallmark building projects ByThe Associated Press March 21, 2022… Read More

A judge in Nicaragua has given an eight-year prison sentence to Cristiana Chamorro, a journalist, potential presidential contender and daughter of former President Violeta Chamorro ByT… Read More

Germany’s parliament has paid tribute to Boris Romanchenko, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during World War II but was killed last week during an attack in the Ukrain… Read More

Missouri is hiring wildly successful Cleveland State basketball coach Dennis Gates to help rebuild a long-floundering program that has churned through seven head and interim coaches since… Read More

Ukraine is appealing to a Chinese maker of civilian drones to block what the Ukrainian government says is their use by the Russian army to target missile attacks ByThe Associated Press… Read More

An alleged coordinator of a predominantly Christian rebel group in the Central African Republic has appeared at the International Criminal Court By MIKE CORDER Associated Press March… Read More

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was known for smoking in public, swearing at officials, riding in cars with men, late-night partying, and owning a pet snake du… Read More

Moderna Says Its Low-Dose COVID Shots Work for Kids Under 6 | Snopes.com Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers, the company announced Wednesd… Read More

Though James Earl Ray was found guilty of murdering Martin Luther King Jr., not everyone believes that he was responsible — or that he worked alone. Bettmann/Getty Images James Earl… Read More

Here are the top stories for Saturday, March 26th: President Joe Biden meets Ukraine refugees in Warsaw; Smoke seen billowing over buildings in Lviv; Pope says Ukraine war ‘shameful f… Read More

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” dramatically escalating the rhetoric against the Russian leader… Read More

President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, March 26, 2022. WARSAW, Poland — President Joe Biden said Saturday that Russian leader Vlad… Read More

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, March 26. Evan Vucci/AP Updated 4:01 PM ET, Sat March 26, 2022 US President Joe Biden deliv… Read More

Warsaw, Poland CNN  —  At nearly the same moment President Joe Biden declared him a “butcher,” Vladimir Putin’s missiles began falling in Lviv, Ukrain… Read More

A Texas teen whose pickup was flipped and whipped around by a tornado Monday has gotten a new set of wheels and lots of support from online donors. A video of the incident, which occurred Mo… Read More

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was known for smoking in public, swearing at officials, riding in cars with men, late-night partying, and owning a pet snake du… Read More

US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC in April 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP/Getty Images) US Senate Intelligence Committee Cha… Read More

Chris Wallace, seen here in 2017, said he left Fox News late last year because its coverage had moved in an “unsustainable” direction. Paul Morigi via Getty Images Forme… Read More

President Joe Biden arrives to speak about the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on Saturday. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo President Joe Biden’s trip to a war-rat… Read More

BERLIN — Germany is no stranger to the wrong side of history. That’s why it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Berlin spent the past 16 years with its feet firmly planted on t… Read More

President Joe Biden’s suggestion in Poland on Saturday that Vladimir Putin’s onslaught on Ukraine should disqualify him from power triggered an international political storm. Bac… Read More

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was known for smoking in public, swearing at officials, riding in cars with men, late-night partying, and owning a pet snake du… Read More

Ukraine has slowed some of Russia’s advances, but multiple cities are being hit with missiles, a presidential adviser said. Russian forces continued missile strikes across Ukraine Sun… Read More

Does Video Show Zelenskyy Singing John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’? | Snopes.com A video shared widely in March 2022 showed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy perfo… Read More

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally for Georgia GOP candidates at Banks County Dragway in Commerce, Ga., on March 26. | Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP… Read More

Gainesville, Georgia has gone to great lengths to establish itself as the “poultry capital of the world.” They’ll even “arrest” a 91-year-old woman for eating… Read More

Not that long ago, says 14-year-old Illia, “I woke up with the sound of rockets.” His father is still home in Ukraine, defending his country against the Russian invasion. His m… Read More

In a speech broadcast minutes before the invasion began on February 24​, Putin said: “We will seek to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine,” ignoring the fact that the country… Read More

White House records handed over to the House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot show a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in former President Donald Trump’s Jan… Read More

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas cast the lone dissenting vote in January when the high court agreed to give the Jan. 6 select committee access to former President Donald Trump&rsqu… Read More

Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 329, click here. 1. A man begging for his wife’s forgiveness inside Divorce Court. Chicago, ca. 1948. 2. A young Ba… Read More

When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last month, US intelligence assessed that the country-wide assault could lead to Kyiv falling into Russian hands within days. But Russia’… Read More

WASHINGTON ― Russian dictator Vladimir Putin may be accused of slaughtering children and overseeing other war crimes in Ukraine, but that’s not stopping longtime admirer a… Read More

By Mariya Knight, Sharif Paget and Travis Caldwell, CNN March 30, 2022 Inna Sheremet remembers fondly walking her dog every day in the forests of Bucha, having lived in Ukraine her e… Read More

Here are 25 kickass random facts. For part 725, click here 1-5 Kickass Random Fact 1. John von Neumann regularly recalled complete novels and pages of the phone directory. He could divide… Read More

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was known for smoking in public, swearing at officials, riding in cars with men, late-night partying, and owning a pet snake du… Read More

Maryland Bill That Would Codify Abortion Rights Draws Backlash from Anti-Abortion Groups | Snopes.com In March 2022, various anti-abortion websites misleadingly reported that a pa… Read More

SACRAMENTO —  A few weeks ago, Sacramento teacher Kacie Go had 56 kids for second period. That day, there were 109 students at her eighth- through 12th-grade school who wer… Read More

From Moscow to the Siberian oil capital of Novosibirsk, and from the intellectual hub of St. Petersburg to the nuclear submarine base of Murmansk, Russians are searching for a way out in ant… Read More

Supreme Court: Who Is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson? | Snopes.com U.S. Senate hearings over the nomination of U.S. Appellate Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to take a seat on the… Read More

Some European countries are heavily dependent on Russia for their gas supply. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said earlier this month that EU leaders had agreed to spend… Read More

Russian troops deployed to invade Ukraine are undermining their own offensive by rejecting orders and destroying their equipment, including aircraft, according to Jeremy Fleming, the… Read More

People arrive for work at JFK8, the Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island, New York, where workers voted to unionize. via Associated Press In a historic win for the labor movem… Read More

The committee interviewed Trump’s presidential diarist roughly two weeks ago. That interview has not been previously reported, nor has the testimony describing a noticeable drop-off in… Read More

Will Smith Resigns from Film Academy over Chris Rock Slap | Snopes.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — Will Smith resigned Friday from the motion picture academy following his Oscars nig… Read More

Democracy in Central America appears to be on the downslide. In Guatemala, an anti-corruption judge went into exile on March 21 amid threats to her life after presiding over cases implica… Read More

President Joe Biden pledged to reestablish the U.S. as a global climate leader. But Brazilian intransigence, a Russian war and domestic political problems put climate change on the bac… Read More

Yet Putin is committing some of the same blunders that doomed Germany’s 1941 invasion of the USSR — while using “Hitler-like tricks and tactics” to justify his brutal… Read More

NEW YORK — A series of violent encounters in New York’s subway system this year pushed the city’s new tough-on-crime mayor to take decisive action. Eric Adams sent NYPD of… Read More

Carolyn Classen clutched a gold-framed black-and-white photo of her late father, Francis Sueo Sugiyana, as she wiped tears from her eyes. The then-young Sugiyana stands smiling under sunny… Read More

Posted by Oscar Gonzales, Assistant Secretary for Administration in Farming Mar 31, 2022 Cesar Chavez Day allows us to recommit ourselves to honoring farmworkers and their many ind… Read More

WASHINGTON, April 4, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture announces the “USDA Tribal Consultations on Barriers/Equity: Annual Progress Report & Feedback for Next Steps… Read More

New Emergency Livestock Relief benefits to be delivered through two-phased approach; compensation for 2021 forage losses WASHINGTON, March 31, 2022 – The U.S Department of Agricultur… Read More

WASHINGTON, April 7, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it will establish a Rural Community Economic Development (RCED) Subcommittee as part of the recen… Read More

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2022 — Today, the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior announced their proposed Fiscal Year 2023 allocations of $2.8 billion in projects, grants and progra… Read More

Secretaries Vilsack and Haaland Receive Joint Operational Wildfire Briefing from agency experts LYONS, Colo., April 11, 2022 – As part of the Biden-Harris Administrations Rural Infra… Read More