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The streets of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, appeared outwardly calm Tuesday morning, as residents made their way to work a day after the military detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically-elected leaders and seized control of the country. But behind the business-as-usual facade, anxiety is growing among many as to what will come next.

Dorothy Height (1912-2010) was often the only woman in the room. She made it her life’s work to change that, fighting battles against both sexism and racism to become, as President Obama called her, the “godmother” of the civil rights movement. Height felt the sting of racism at an early age. She was accepted to

Minneapolis police officers will no longer be allowed to deactivate their body cameras in order to hold private conversations during the course of their response to an incident, according to a statement Monday from Mayor Jacob Frey and Chief Medaria Arradondo. It is one of several new policies that have been implemented by Minneapolis and

The police chief and a patrolman in a small Georgia town have been pushed out of their jobs after they were caught having a racist, misogynist conversation while preparing to patrol a Black Lives Matter Rally in June 2020, according to Buddy Walker, an assistant to Hamilton Mayor Julie Brown. Hamilton Police Chief Gene Allmond

Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny appeared in a Moscow court on Tuesday in a bizarre and heated hearing in which the politician ridiculed suggestions he should have communicated with parole officers while he was in a coma. Navalny was detained two weeks ago upon his return to Moscow from Berlin, accused of failing to meet his

Myanmar’s powerful military has taken control of the country in a coup and declared a state of emergency, following the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior government leaders in early morning raids Monday. The country woke up to widespread internet and communications blackouts, closed banks, and soldiers in army fatigues patrolling the

Police officers in Rochester, New York, handcuffed and pepper-sprayed a 9-year-old girl while responding to what a police official called a report of “family trouble” in an incident sharply criticized by city officials. Two body camera videos of Friday’s incident released by the police department on Sunday show officers restraining the child, putting her in

This is one sweet offer. A Canadian company is looking to pay people to try their candy and rate it. And the best part is, the job is remote. The Candy Funhouse is an online candy store that is seeking full-time and part-time workers willing to try out, and honestly review, their candies and chocolates

Jared Kushner, Stacey Abrams and the Black Lives Matter movement have all reportedly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. And you could join them. Basically, anyone can be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The restrictions in place by the Nobel Foundation are mainly all for the nominator. The only people who

On her 100th birthday, Mildred Grassman got flowers, candy, money — and her second shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. “It means everything to me,” Grassman said just after getting the last shot at Ascension St. Vincent Evansville in Indiana. “At my age, I didn’t want to get the disease.” It also means that eventually, Grassman

Every year on February 2 people keep an eye out for a groundhog’s shadow to help predict what the weather will be like for the next few weeks. This year that shadow may be cast on snow. The legend goes that if groundhog Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow we will have six more weeks of