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Is Juneteenth a holiday in Florida? What is closed on Juneteenth 2024?
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoOn June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, with 2,000 Union troops with a message for the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people there. They were finally free ...
Editorial: Juneteenth is about more than the end of slavery
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoJuneteenth, a federal holiday, is about honoring fortitude, perseverance and, yes, optimism. Those...
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they...
CNN.com· 2 hours agoSeventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a...
What troops need to know about the military’s basic pay in 2024
Military Times via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe ECI calculation for 2025 sits at 4.5%, which — if approved — would mark the third straight year...
NH troops back from Texas-Mexico border have new perspective: ‘It’s heavy in every way.’
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoNor would they share their thoughts on learning during their flight home that President Joe Biden...
Rural mail carrier pleads to theft of home improvement store rebates
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier· 6 hours agoA rural mail carrier has pleaded to charges she stole home improvement store rebates from people on...
French film star Anouk Aimée dies aged 92
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoAimée appeared in dozens of films across her eight-decade acting career, including starring in Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, for which she was...
Jesse Plemons is ready for the ride
WJTV Jackson· 36 minutes agoCANNES, France (AP) — Jesse Plemons was flattered to be approached by Yorgos Lanthimos about starring in “Kinds of Kindness,” but he wasn’t sure which...
What's open and closed on Juneteenth 2024? Details on Costco, Walmart, Starbucks, Target, more
USA Today· 6 hours agoHere's how Costco, Walmart, Target, Starbucks, McDonald's and other big name companies are operating...
Historic SS United States ordered out of Philadelphia berth after 'decades of decay'
FOX 29 Philadelphia· 3 hours agoThe SS United States, a historic ship that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more...
