On Dec. 7, 1958, Ken and Barbara Martin of Portland, Ore., took their three daughters on a family trip through the mountains en route to collect Christmas greenery. They stopped…
The United States is cutting almost all its spending on aid. The biggest loser will be Africa. For years, sub-Saharan Africa has received more U.S. aid money than any other…
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Yves here. As DOGE’s carpet-bombing of Federal programs continues, it can’t be said often enough that this destruction of some of the anchors of what is left of American competitiveness…
Juan Hamilton, an aspiring artist who enriched the last years of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe as her much younger caretaker, confidant and protégée, but who became the object of sensational…
Neighbourhoods were heavily damaged after tornadoes tore through areas of Oklahoma as part of a swath of severe weather that hit the state.
An alleged thief in Florida swallowed stolen earrings worth more than half a million dollars moments before police took him into custody last week. Orlando police have accused the man,…
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