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How flash photography put a spotlight on New York's rampant poverty in the late 1800s, catalyzing...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of...
LEONARD GREENE: Keechant Sewell resignation shows that as long as Eric Adams is NYC mayor, there’s...
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoKeechant Sewell, the first woman to become police commissioner in New York City, abruptly resigned last week, and the announcement has set off all sorts of speculation and palace intrigue. But ...
On This Day, Jan. 12: Major League Baseball gets its first commissioner
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJudge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, commissioner of baseball, assumes his characteristic pose for the...
A man who understood leading in war and peace
Kitsap Sun via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s famous response in the early days of the Ukrainian-Russian war, “I don’t need a ride, I need more...
The Alienist Season 1 Streaming: Watch and Stream Online via HBO Max
COMINGSOON.net via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCary Joji Fukuaga’s period crime thriller The Alienist Season 1 is set in the New York City of 1896...
Opinion: American Jews a century ago faced upheaval, bigotry and division — all familiar today
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe last month has been profoundly disorienting for American Jews, as we have absorbed the horrific Hamas massacre and subsequent Israeli counterstrikes. This terrible war has surfaced deep ...
Today in History: September 14, Star Spangled Banner written
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoToday in History Today is Wednesday, Sept. 14, the 257th day of 2022. There are 108 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 14, 1901, President William McKinley died in ...
Congressman Rogers Holds Moment of Silence on the House Floor for Fallen EKY Police Officers
The Sentinel Echo, London, Ky. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 21—WASHINGTON, Dc. — U.S. Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers (KY-05) requested a moment of silence on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to honor the three fallen Eastern Kentucky police ...
Junipero Serra’s controversial statue represents California. Here’s how it could be replaced
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA California sculpture almost 3,000 miles away from home stood for nearly a century without much...
Let’s Raise a Glass to What Prohibition Accomplished
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWas prohibition really the policy failure it is made out to be? The obvious answer is yes — of course, it was a failure. Prohibition bred corruption, organized crime, gangland violence and a ...
