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It’s no surprise that all the Senate’s Democrats voted against confirming new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (“Pete Hegseth overcomes attacks to narrowly win Senate confirmation as defense secretary,” ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

We speak with the acclaimed Palestinian writer Mohammed El-Kurd on the publication day for his new book ... own family’s history of fighting eviction from their home in East Jerusalem.

He recalled that Carter’s 2006 trip coincided with the release of the former president’s book “Palestine ... Prize for his efforts in the Middle East, which in addition to the ceasefire ...

She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

"This is part of a long-standing policy of crushing any perceived assertion of Palestinian nationalism in East Jerusalem... so they went into the store and took any book with the name 'Palestine ...

Masur's time in the Nazi armed forces as a teenager, and later in communist-controlled East Germany, exposed him to the true ... Of course, being from the Afro-American tradition and Mississippi and ...

It is long past time for Congress to pass legislation genuinely responsive to the East Palestine rail disaster, taking into ...

Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Health Director Bruce Vanderhoff announced a $750,000 grant to aid East Liverpool City Hospital in relocating its East Palestine primary care clinic on Thursday.

Vice President JD Vance said his return to the village of East Palestine on the second anniversary of the explosive train ...

Vance had been in the Senate just under three weeks when he received a late-night call from his state director that there had ...