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10 Surprising Facts About Memorial Day
Time via AOL· 12 hours agoFink says. In June 1972, TIME commented that the holiday had become “a three-day nationwide hootenanny that seems to have lost much of its original...
Tired of delayed flights? New flying law offers refunds, keeps families together.
The Christian Science Monitor· 2 days agoThe airline industry is on a hiring spree to staff planes and ensure smoother flights due to an...
GoLocalProv | Food | “Taste of Juneteenth” Being Held in Providence on First Year of State Holiday
GoLocalProv· 22 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the last slaves were freed in Texas, two and a half...
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The Valdosta Daily Times· 17 hours agoIn what had long been celebrated every May 30 to honor America’s fallen soldiers, Memorial Day officially became a federal holiday in 1971, observed on the last Monday in ...
Biden administration announces sale of nearly a million barrels of gasoline in effort to lower...
Courthouse News Service· 6 days agoThe Biden administration is selling nearly one million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast oil...
Trump vows to 'save' deep-blue New York City in massive, historic Bronx rally
Fox News· 3 days agoFormer President Trump has broken political norms by visiting one of the most deep-blue areas in New...
Gov. Kay Ivey makes Juneteenth Alabama state holiday for 2024
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 6 days agoGina Maiola, communications director for Ivey, said Monday the memo did not list all the state holidays but that the governor added a couple of days, Juneteenth and the day ...
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ tells DODEA students about struggle behind federal holiday
Stars and Stripes· 7 days agoMore than 200 students and teachers at Yokosuka Middle School began their Monday morning with a...
This Memorial Day weekend heralds a bitter campaign season ahead
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLabor Day traditionally heralds the final push for presidential campaigns, but a frenetic,...
A 97 year old visionary to visit Santa Fe
Santa Fe New Mexican· 3 days agoBy 2021, this very same little girl — now 94 — was the national figurehead behind making June 19 a federal holiday honoring the freedom struggle and...
