July 02 2021, 08:00
Elie Rosen had never really listened as a child when his grandparents told him and his cousins to keep their heads down. He knew they had survived the Holocaust but he believed the world's vow of "never again" and saw no reason for his generation of European Jews to fear.
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An 82-year-old woman trained to be an astronaut sixty years ago. Now she's going to space with Bezos
July 02 2021, 08:00
After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk — who trained for NASA's Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space — is finally getting her time amongst the stars. She's been selected by the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, to accompany him, his brother, and an as-yet unknown auction winner on a suborbital trip on July 20th.
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July 02 2021, 08:00
The Justice Department has rounded up several new defendants this week accused of destroying thousands of dollars' worth of professional broadcast equipment outside the US Capitol on January 6, in a scene captured on multiple videos showing Trump supporters gleefully taking out their anger at the mainstream media.
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July 02 2021, 08:00
The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a $715 billion transportation and water infrastructure bill focused on improving and repairing roads, bridges, transit and rail, and ensuring clean drinking water.
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July 02 2021, 08:00
As US President Joe Biden prepares for the formal withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, the man responsible for peace talks between the rampant Taliban and the official Afghan government is not entirely optimistic about the country's future.
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July 01 2021, 08:00
The European Union will work to phase out caged animal farming across the bloc, after a petition calling for an end to the practice gathered more than a million signatures.
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July 01 2021, 08:00
Myanmar freed more than 2,000 detainees on Wednesday, among them journalists and others who the ruling military said had been held on incitement charges for taking part in protests, local media reported.
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July 01 2021, 08:00
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City's subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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July 01 2021, 08:00
Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube talks about the country's plan to resolve its economic hardship. The World Bank reports the 49% of the country's population lives in poverty.
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July 01 2021, 08:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin put a positive spin on the sanctions that the United States has imposed on his country in recent years on Wednesday. There are, he claimed, positive sides to them.
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