Day: June 16, 2025

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they had been freed — after Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

The Palestinian bid to qualify for the 2026 World Cup may have been snatched away with a contentious late penalty but the fact the team got so close is some comfort to the players and their supporters.

For centuries, America has been a desired destination. But as the nation approaches its 250th birthday, under President Donald Trump it increasingly looks from afar like a place to reconsider — and perhaps avoid.

Nearly 3,000 white crosses on a hill in South Africa are a memorial to white people killed on farms over the last three decades.