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Today in History: May 5, Alan Shepard becomes first American in space | Texarkana Gazette
Texarkana Gazette· 42 minutes agoToday is Sunday, May 5, the 126th day of 2024. On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule ...
Nancy Pelosi omits pandemic in singling out job losses under Donald Trump
Dallas Morning News· 1 day agoPelosi said April 29 that Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.” Tur responded...
California’s population grew in 2023, halting 3 years of decline
KTLA-TV Los Angeles· 5 days agoSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s most populous state is growing again. California gained...
It’s not Flower Mart without lemon sticks. (Very) fresh milk, tea once shared bill.
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 2 days agoYears before big league baseball returned to the city or school children planted the cherry trees whose blooms beautify Fort McHenry, another rite of Baltimore spring was already well established ...
Who won the Kentucky Derby the year you were born? List of race winners by year since 1875
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoGibson (2:06.25) 1899 – Manuel (2:12.00) 1898 – Plaudit (2:09.00) 1897 - Typhoon II (2:12.50) 1896 -...
Today in History: Barack Obama denounced former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoOn April 29, 2008, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama denounced his former pastor, the...
The UK's Conservatives suffer historic losses in local elections as Labour edges closer to power
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoBritain's governing Conservative Party suffered heavy losses in local election results Friday,...
Congress Gives the Arsenal of Democracy a Boost
Foreign Policy Magazine· 3 days ago“We have begun—begun—to rebuild the industrial base with the supplementals,” Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, said at an event last week....
Eastern Europe Is Richer Than Ever — And More Divided
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 5 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Zakovce in eastern Slovakia is the definition of a backwater. Yet as part of the...
Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life's lost milestones
The Morning News· 5 days agoIn many ways, the chaotic moment was the culmination of a college life that started amid the ...