Courageous women have always played a vital role in American history.
Addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 19, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge stated:
"The importance of women in the working out...
Outgoing West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin expressed strong disapproval on Thursday over President Joe Biden's decision to commute the death sentences of two men convicted in the brutal 2002 murder of Samantha Burns, a 19-year-old student at Marshall University. The two men, Brandon Basham and Chadrick Fulks, had been sentenced to death for their roles in Burns' killing. On Monday, as part of a larger commutation effort, Biden reclassified their sentences from execution to life in prison without the possibility of parole, along with 35 other inmates on federal death row.
Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson was arrested Friday morning on federal corruption charges, accused of orchestrating a kickback scheme to defraud taxpayers. Fernandes Anderson, representing Boston's Seventh District, faces one count of theft regarding programs receiving federal funds and five counts of wire fraud, as detailed in a Department of Justice indictment unsealed the same day.
The Boston City Council voted unanimously this week to reaffirm the "Trust Act," a local law aimed at restricting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The move comes as city leaders brace for the impact of President-elect Donald Trump’s planned mass deportations.
Earlier this year, the FDA approved a supplement for dairy cattle designed to reduce their methane emissions by 30%. The supplement, called Bovaer, was considered a "first-in-class methane-reducing feed ingredient," a press release says.
On NOVEMBER 21, 1620, according to the "New Style" Gregorian Calendar, the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact and began their Plymouth Colony.
Of the 102 Pilgrims, only 47 survived till Spring.
At one point, only a...
During the days of America's founding, colonies would declare:
days of prayer when times were bad;
days of fasting when times were real bad; and
days of thanksgiving when things...
