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Aimee Dupre had always kept silent about the rape of her mother by two American soldiers after the Normandy landings in June 1944.In October 1944, after the battle for Normandy was won, US military authorities put 152 soldiers on trial for raping French women.
The United Methodist Church's top legislative assembly removed anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions and proposed a new regional plan. What's next?
Outside political groups tied to the cryptocurrency industry have raised more than $102 million to spend on the upcoming U.S. congressional elections in order to elevate candidates who are friendly to digital assets, according to a report from Public Citizen. Only two other political groups, or super PACs, have raised more money than the crypto sector this election cycle, Public Citizen said. The money raised by crypto-backed super PACs shows how crypto companies are hoping to influence policies in their favor as the industry is facing increased scrutiny from regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as lawmakers.
U.S. university presidents joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis on Monday for the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz that honors the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel. This year, the mood at the march was overshadowed by the war in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, the deadliest violence against Jews since Adolf Hitler's regime sought to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. The October attack unleashed a war that has led to a high number of Palestinian deaths, fueling pro-Palestinian protests that have swept U.S. campuses.
Boeing is finally set to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on its Starliner spacecraft, following years of delays and glitches.
Growing up in the streets of east Baltimore surrounded by poverty and gun violence, two kids named Antonio became fast friends. Antonio Lee was shot and killed last summer. In the weeks that followed, his friend Antonio Moore warned their peers about the consequences of retaliation, trying to prevent more needless bloodshed and stolen futures in a city that consistently ranks among the nation’s most violent.
President Joe Biden will hold urgent talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday after Israel defied repeated US warnings and told Palestinians to evacuate part of the southern Gaza city of Rafah ahead of an offensive.Biden told Netanyahu in April that invading Rafah would be a "mistake," and Washington has said it does not support an offensive without a credible plan to aid some 1.2 million civilians sheltering there.
Stock markets advanced on Monday on renewed optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year and a positive corporate earnings season."The market ... might be feeling better about the earnings outlook and the interest rate outlook, but the geopolitical backdrop remains a challenge to say the least," said Briefing.com analyst Patrick O'Hare.
The New York judge presiding over Donald Trump's historic criminal trial again found the former US president in contempt of a gag order Monday and threatened to jail him if there are further violations.Judge Juan Merchan held Trump in contempt of court and fined him $1,000 for a violation of the gag order prohibiting him from publicly attacking witnesses, jurors or court staff and their relatives.
Footage of a student seemingly imitating a monkey toward a Black woman during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi last week received backlash.
Thousands of activists in Bangladesh backed by the ruling party's student wing marched through universities around the country Monday to demand an end to the Israel-Hamas war and the creation of an independent Palestinian state. Many other students also joined the rally, organizers said.
The viral social media question, asked of women, seems simple: Would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a bear? Many women have chosen the latter. The hypothetical question has sparked widespread discussion while shedding light on violence against women.
Liberia, West Africa’s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront. One of Merab's companies was also mentioned in the trial of Charles Taylor, a former Liberia president who was convicted of war crimes during the civil war in neighboring country Sierra Leone.
Protesters used commencement as leverage to reach a deal; school President Minouche Shafik doubled down.
NASA test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were set to climb into Boeing’s Starliner capsule for a nighttime liftoff from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station for a weeklong stay. NASA hired Boeing and SpaceX a decade ago to ferry astronauts to and from the space station after the shuttle program ended, paying the private companies billions of dollars.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia warned Britain on Monday that if British weapons were used by Ukraine to strike Russian territory then Moscow could hit back at British military installations and equipment both inside Ukraine and elsewhere. British Ambassador Nigel Casey was summoned to the foreign ministry for a formal protest after Foreign Secretary David Cameron said last week that Ukraine had the right to use British weapons to strike Russia.
Robinhood Markets Inc. has received a notice from the Securities and Exchange Commission about alleged securities violations at its crypto division. The company said in a regulatory filing that it received investigative subpoenas from the SEC about issues including cryptocurrency listings, custody of cryptocurrencies, and platform operations. Robinhood Crypto has cooperated with the investigation, the company said.
"This impressive bird has long been noted for its speed, grace, and aerial skills," the National Park Service says. "Now, it is also a symbol of America's recovering threatened and endangered species."
Mention Dalmatia, and Split and Dubrovnik usually spring to mind. But head to the northern stretch of this coastal Croatian region and you’ll find a road a little less traveled.
The death toll from a series of catastrophic floods in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to 78, according to an announcement from the state’s Civil Defense Unit on Sunday.
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