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Maya Angelou Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Grammy-winning author and poet Maya Angelou. Personal Birth date: April 4, 1928 Death date: May 28, 2014 Birth place: St. Louis, Missouri Birth name: Marguerite Annie Johnson Father: Bailey Johnson, doorman Mother: Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, nurse Marriages: Paul du Feu (1973-1980, divorced);

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Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland is shown.

Retired Air Force major general missing for weeks once led Wright-Patterson, an Ohio base steeped in decades of UFO theories

By Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Streetlights shaped like alien heads line the roads of Roswell, New Mexico, where murals of flying saucers streak across storefronts and tourists pose beside statues of little green men. Nearly eight decades after a mysterious crash in the desert sparked global fascination with extraterrestrials, the small city remains synonymous

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Travelers wait in line to get into a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston

TSA workers grapple with loss of first paycheck: ‘I don’t want to depend on anybody else’

By Alexandra Skores, Tami Luhby, CNN Washington (CNN) — A father and Transportation Security Administration officer said he “crumbled” when one of his children asked whether he needed money in the wake of the four-week-long government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. “I’ve always been self–motivated,” said Johnny Jones, secretary-treasurer of the American Federation

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A view of the control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on October 9

Passengers face hours-long delays across DC-area airports after equipment malfunction at air traffic control center

By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Passengers at three airports in the Washington, DC, area faced significant delays after a ground stop was issued Friday afternoon due to an equipment outage, according to the FAA and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who posted details on X. The disruptions were caused by the temporary closure of a

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