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Donald Trump on Friday agreed to re-open the government after the longest shutdown of US federal agencies in history, which had affected nearly 800,000 government employees. The POTUS stood by his demand to build a border wall with Mexico, threatening…
MADRID (Sputnik) – Early elections in Venezuela should take place in six to nine months or earlier, and Venezuelans themselves must resolve the conflict in the country, the speaker of Venezuela’s opposition-run National Assembly, opposition leader Juan Guaido, who proclaimed…
The last time the US was pummeled by a snow and ice storm of comparable magnitude was in early 2014, when heavy snowfall and crippling ice left hundreds of thousands of people without power, grounded over 2,000 flights, and resulted…
Fifty years ago this month, at a time when America was divided on questions of war, race, and gender, Alice de Rivera decided that she was fed up with her lousy high school in New York. She was thirteen, with…
In August, 1968, Time magazine senior editor Peter Bird Martin persuaded managing editor Henry Grunwald to schedule a cover story about Russell Baker. Baker’s wry, self-mocking New York Times column, “Observer,” was carried by scores of newspapers across the country…
