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As the country turns 250, retired judges hit the road to defend judicial independence
The four-day tour through the Rust Belt is a sharp departure for a typically reserved and insular branch of government.
Community screenings help a movie set during an Indian insurgency bypass censorship
“Satluj” draws on the life of a rights activist whose investigation into alleged extrajudicial killings exposed one of the darkest episodes of Punjab’s insurgency.
Marine Le Pen ushered France's extreme right from taboo to political juggernaut
For decades, the National Rally was widely condemned because of its roots in antisemitism and xenophobia. Now, the party leads the polls after an intensive normalization campaign.
Ongoing missions
Despite recent backlashes over the colonial treatment of Native populations, California's missions continue to thrive.
Judge halts roundup of wild horses in Arizona
Wild free-roaming horses will continue to rove national forests in Arizona and New Mexico after a judge granted a preliminary injunction to stop removal of the equines.
The Decline and Fall of what, exactly?
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about early Christian martyrs and the late Roman Empire. No, really.
National park signage
BOSTON — The First Circuit stayed a Massachusetts federal court’s preliminary injunction blocking Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which required the National Park Service to flag or remove park materials “addressing climate change, slavery, abolition, immigration, labor, women’s suffrage, civil rights, and the culture and mistreatment of indigenous groups.” The conservation group that sued could not show how they are likely to suffer irreparable harm absent the injunction.
The Declaration's forgotten (non)signer: John Dickinson’s missing 1776 signature haunts his legacy
Admirers would call him the “Penman of the Revolution.”
Khadijah Farrakhan, 'first lady of Nation of Islam' as wife of famous pastor, dies at 90
"Mother Khadijah" worked alongside her provocative and charismatic husband, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, for decades, helping lead their religious and sociopolitical movement, which espouses Black self-reliance.
St. Bernard dogs still roam the Swiss Alps as part of this 'living museum' and its breeding program
They arrived as guard dogs and gradually evolved into something the Alpine world had never seen before: Animals with an extraordinary instinct for locating hikers lost in snow and fog.
Israel releases classified documents detailing 1976 Entebbe raid to free more than 100 hostages
For Israel, Entebbe was widely seen as a success just four years after all nine Israeli hostages were killed in a German-led rescue attempt at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.