[ad_1] Willie McCovey, first-place Hall of Fame player who has played 19 of his 22 seasons with the San Francisco Giants and 521 career races, died Wednesday at age 80. The Giants …
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[ad_1] HONOLULU – Ruth Gates, a pioneering coral reef scientist who has spent a large part of her career safeguarding fragile ecosystems and deteriorating underwater reefs, has passed away. She was 56 …
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Read More »Whitey Bulger, famous Boston gangster and informant, died at age 89
[ad_1] A troublemaker from an early age, Whitey ran with a gang, stole cars, assaulted people and was sent to a reform school. He joined the Air Force at age 20, but …
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[ad_1] MONROE, N.C. – La mère d'un enfant d'un an qui a été emporté par les eaux de crue créées par l'ouragan Florence a été inculpée dans la mort de ce garçon. …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK – Il y a 5 400 ans, de nouvelles recherches ont permis de prouver que le cacao était un ingrédient au chocolat en Amérique du Sud, soulignant ainsi la …
Read More »Ntozake Shange, who wrote "For girls of color", died at age 70
[ad_1] Ntozake Shange, a spoken language artist who became a playwright with her canonical play "For the Colored Girls Who Thought of Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf", passed away Saturday …
Read More »Ntozake Shange, playwright, poet and pioneer novelist, dies at age 70
[ad_1] Photo of Jeffrey St Mary Ntozake Shangepioneer poet, novelist and playwright whose choreopoem, "For the colorful girls who thought about suicide / When the rainbow is Enuf", helped generations of women …
Read More »Book Review of An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics by Greg Sargent
[ad_1] Contributor, PostEverything October 26 at 1:39 PM James T. Kloppenberg, author of "Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought," teaches U.S. history at Harvard. President Trump attends …
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[ad_1] Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are expecting their first child and make up a large collection of stuffed animals in Australia. Princess Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank in glory, haute couture exceeding …
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