Frederick Douglass, who was born into slavery and became an influential orator, writer and intellectual, was the most photographed person in America in the 19th century. Nancy Giles explores how Douglass used the early photographic medium to promote the cause of abolition. Source link
Jenitar Na’amoana and her husband, Jortham, thought their family was complete after welcoming four children. Then came an unexpected surprise: four naturally conceived, identical daughters. Na’amoana, 34, gave birth to Emily, Harriet, Catherine and Alexa last week. “The fact that we’ve got four beautiful, healthy babies born at 28 weeks and four days is…
The following is the transcript of the interview with Mike Waltz, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on June 21, 2026. MARGARET BRENNAN: We’re joined now by UN Ambassador Mike Waltz, who joins us from New York. Good morning, and happy Father’s Day. UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR…
The US State Department said on Wednesday it has approved the sale of an estimated $1.96 billion in weapons to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air defences, as the war ramps up in the Middle East. “This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by improving the security of…
A tornado tore through a village in southwestern France on Monday, injuring 41 people and damaging hundreds of homes, authorities said. French authorities had placed swaths of the country’s southwest on orange alert for storms, and numerous areas were hit with power outages and the disruption of transportation. In the Aude region, officials canceled the…
Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, praised the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln after he visited the cruiser on Saturday. In a statement shared on social media, Cooper said his time aboard the Lincoln was “awe-inspiring.” “I wish every American could see the crew in action,” he said. “You would beam…
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz remained defiant on Sunday, vowing to press ahead with potentially painful reforms to Europe’s biggest economy, after suffering a bruising electoral setback in two state elections. Exit polls by public broadcaster ARD indicated that Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, came in with just 5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania – the…
Washington — A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Justice Department to give a conservative think tank a redacted transcript and recordings of former President Joe Biden’s decade-old conversations with his biographer, Mark Zwonitzer. In a 26-page decision, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied Biden’s bid to stop the Justice Department from disclosing…
The Trump administration has been quietly deporting migrants from Mexico to different countries in Central America despite the Mexican government’s willingness to accept the return of all its citizens, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News. U.S. immigration authorities have been sending deportees from Mexico to Guatemala and Honduras, flying them around Mexican…
Beneath two now-deserted villages in western Ukraine — the site of World War II-era massacres — archaeologists are uncovering the bones at the heart of a dispute that has strained relations between Warsaw and Kyiv for years. Disagreements over what happened and who is responsible for the Volyn massacres have long cast a shadow over…
