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BOSTON — The First Circuit stayed a Massachusetts federal court’s preliminary injunction blocking Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which required the National Park Service to flag or remove park materials “addressing climate change, slavery, abolition, immigration, labor, women’s suffrage, civil rights, and the culture and mistreatment of indigenous groups.” The conservation group that sued could not show how they are likely to suffer irreparable harm absent the injunction.
The Declaration's forgotten (non)signer: John Dickinson’s missing 1776 signature haunts his legacy
Admirers would call him the “Penman of the Revolution.”
Khadijah Farrakhan, 'first lady of Nation of Islam' as wife of famous pastor, dies at 90
"Mother Khadijah" worked alongside her provocative and charismatic husband, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, for decades, helping lead their religious and sociopolitical movement, which espouses Black self-reliance.
St. Bernard dogs still roam the Swiss Alps as part of this 'living museum' and its breeding program
They arrived as guard dogs and gradually evolved into something the Alpine world had never seen before: Animals with an extraordinary instinct for locating hikers lost in snow and fog.
Israel releases classified documents detailing 1976 Entebbe raid to free more than 100 hostages
For Israel, Entebbe was widely seen as a success just four years after all nine Israeli hostages were killed in a German-led rescue attempt at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Moral insanity
Let us now bow our heads, for whatever reason — piety, or fear of flying objects — and ask ourselves, and each other: How did our country succumb so quickly to moral insanity?
Asteroid bombardment may have delayed Earth's first continents
Repeated asteroid impacts during Earth's early history may have pumped so much heat into the planet's interior that stable continents couldn’t form for hundreds of millions of years.
Get a load of this: Humans and great apes share similar giggles
Compared with apes, human laughter has become faster and more complex.
Poland, Ukraine hold key Gdansk conference without Zelenskyy
A recent poll shows 59.7% of Poles now oppose Ukraine's accession to the EU.
Norman Rockwell people-watched in the West Wing lobby. Now those sketches are on public display
The sketches had been put up for sale by a grandson of the White House official who received them as a gift from Rockwell.
Sicily’s medieval mosaic: DNA reveals island’s deep diversity
Sicily is famous as a crossroads of civilizations in the Mediterranean. A DNA study of its medieval populations proves it.