Fact check: Kennedy says Congress prohibits research into mass shootings In an April 21 social media post, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said: "The National Institutes of Health refuses to investigate the mystery; in fact, Congress prohibits the NIH from ... 05/10/2024 - 9:38 am | View Link
John F. Kennedy’s $50,000 mortgage note for Cape Cod house up for auction A mortgage note between John F. Kennedy and his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, for the former president’s “Summer White House” on Cape Cod, is up for auction, according to Boston-based RR Auction. 05/10/2024 - 3:12 am | View Link
Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr., envoy, captive in Iran hostage crisis, dies at 93 A Princeton- and Harvard-educated diplomat with a specialty in economics, Mr. Kennedy was halfway through a three-month assignment in Tehran when a Marine came charging down the embassy hallway, ... 05/9/2024 - 8:38 am | View Link
Kentucky Republican Michael Adams to receive John F. Kennedy award A Kentucky Republican is set to receive a major award named after a beloved Democratic politician — former President John F. Kennedy. Secretary of State Michael Adams will receive the 2024 Profile in ... 05/6/2024 - 5:27 am | View Link
Board members and congressional sponsors of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board including former Senator John Glenn and Representatives Dan Burton, Henry Waxman, and Louis Stokes and Board members: Honorable John R. Tunheim (chair), Henry F. Graff, Kermit L. Hall, William L. 05/1/2024 - 5:40 am | View Link
Israel on Saturday ordered hundreds of thousands in Rafah to evacuate immediately as Israeli military forces prepared to expand further into Gaza’s southernmost city amid a devastating humanitarian crisis. The warning, which arrived in the form of dropped leaflets, came despite a rare threat from President Biden this week that he would withhold certain weapons if Israel advanced further into Rafah.
Barron Trump’s political debut has been shelved—for now—after his mother, Melania Trump, effectively rebuffed an invitation for her 18-year-old son to serve as a delegate at the GOP convention this summer.
“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” a statement to the Daily Mail read.
It seems like such a simple idea: a day to honor the women who bring life into the world. But how do we square the ideal of celebrating and supporting mothers with the reality of how lawmakers and courts have acted to undermine maternal health and rights in the post-Dobbs era?
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When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island.
“I used to pluck them off the rocks and put them in buckets and keep them as pets and then re-release them,” Wood said.