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☆ Schools in One Virginia County to Reinstate Confederate Names
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Campbell Robertson | More About Campbell Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a meeting that lasted for hours, the Shenandoah County school board voted early Friday morning to restore the names of three Confederate officers to schools in the district. With the vote, the district appears to be the first in the country to return Confederate names to schools that had removed them after the summer of 2020, according to researchers at the Montgomery, Ala.-based Equal Justice Initiative. The schools were renamed the next year as Honey Run and Mountain View. But a fury had been unleashed in the rural county in the mountains of Virginia. People crowded into school board meetings, denouncing the naming process as secretive and rushed, and voicing deeper resentments about cultural changes they saw as being foisted upon them.

Persons: George Floyd, — Ashby, Lee Elementary, Stonewall Jackson, Honey Organizations: Initiative, Lee, Stonewall Locations: Shenandoah County, Montgomery, Ala, Virginia

☆ For U.S. Cuban claims holders, spy Manuel Rocha's plea deal raises fresh questions
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Michelle Caruso-Cabrera | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Raul Rubiera | Miami Herald | Getty ImagesWhen Carolyn Lamb saw news of Cuban spy Victor Manuel Rocha's arrest on the news last December, she recognized him immediately. The lower the value of the claims, the less the Cuban government would have to pay in any future negotiated settlement. Ashby assumed Rocha's paranoia about eavesdropping was in response to the George W. Bush administration's opposition to the Cuba claims buying business. But according to the Justice Department, by that point Rocha was already in his third decade as a Cuban agent. File photo of former US ambassador to Bolivia, Manuel Rocha, talking to the press on the 11th of July 2001.

Persons: V, Manuel Rocha, Steel Hector, Davis, Raul Rubiera, Carolyn Lamb, Victor Manuel Rocha's, Rocha, Lamb, Lamb's, Castro, Justin Solomon, CNBC Castro didn't nationalize, of Rocha, Fidel Castro's, It's, Jason Poblete, Poblete, John Kavulich, Sears Roebuck, Timothy Ashby, Ashby couldn't, Ashby, George W, Bush, Little, Covert, Gonzalo Espinoza Organizations: Miami Herald, Steel, Cuban, US State Department, National Security, Cuban Telephone Company, " Beverage Company, CNBC, Pepsi, General Electric, Century Fox, Cuba Trade, Economic Council, Justice Department, Citizen, State Department, National Security Council, DOJ, Cubans, FBI, AFP, Getty Locations: America, Omaha, Bolivia, Cuba, Havana, United States, Cuban, Rocha, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Argentina, Miami, Chile

☆ Research unveils gruesome history of Tasmanian tiger skins in British museum’s collection
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Warning: This article contains disturbing descriptions about the practices of colonial settlers in Tasmania and violence against Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples. “In all, Allport shipped five Tasmanian Aboriginal skeletons to Europe, proudly identifying himself as the most prolific trader in Tasmanian bodily remains,” according to the study. The colonial government allowed settlers to murder Tasmanian Aboriginal people without punishment and, in 1830, even established a bounty for the capture of Indigenous humans and Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines. Some Aboriginal Tasmanian people did survive colonial persecution, Ashby added, though at brutal costs. Their descendants make up today’s Tasmanian Aboriginal community, Ashby said.

Persons: Jack Ashby, Morton Allport, Allport, Ashby, It’s, ” Ashby, Mortan Allport, ”, incentivized Allport, William Lanne, William Crowther, Crowther, Truganini, thylacines, “ We’re, Rebecca Kilner, ” Kilner Organizations: Tasmanian Aboriginal, CNN, Cambridge University’s Museum of Zoology, Tasmanian, Allport Library, Museum of Fine Arts, State, of, Royal Society of Tasmania, Royal Society, British Museum, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge Grappling Locations: Tasmania, United Kingdom, Europe, Belgium, of Tasmania, Great Britain, London, Bass, ”, Brussels, Tasmanian, Cambridge

☆ George Santos ‘Blatantly Stole’ From Own Campaign, House Ethics Committee Finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Katy Stech Ferek | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rep. George Santos recently pleaded not guilty to 13 felony charges. WSJ’s Ashby Jones breaks down those charges and what’s next for the New York Republican. Photo Illustration: Ryan TrefesWASHINGTON—The House Ethics Committee said Thursday that it found substantial evidence that Rep. George Santos (R., N.Y.) stole money from his campaign and used his connections to high value donors to get additional money through questionable business dealings but stopped short of recommending that lawmakers boot him from Congress. “Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit” and “blatantly stole from his campaign,” the report said. The committee said Santos’s conduct “warrants public condemnation, is beneath the dignity of the office, and has brought severe discredit upon the House.”

Persons: George Santos, WSJ’s Ashby Jones, what’s, Ryan Trefes WASHINGTON, Santos, “, ” Organizations: New York Republican, “ Locations: N.Y

NEW YORK (AP) — There are rituals to an Alexander Payne movie. “The Holdovers” is Payne's attempt to make not just a ‘70-set film but an actual ’70s film, styled after some of the movies he grew up with. “I like talking about other people’s movies more than my own,” Payne shrugged. But there was always that distant dream of not being a filmmaker but just going to film school. Most of us trained in film school like those ’70s guys.

Persons: Alexander Payne, Kevin Tent, Payne, ” Payne, ”, —, Paul Giamatti, David Hemingson, Paul Hunham, Giamatti, Angus Tully, Dominic Sessa, Mary Lamb, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Leo McCarey's, Payne —, “, ” Payne shrugged, PAYNE, –, Dominic, ” “ Harold, Maude, Hal Ashby, Harold, Maude ”, “ Harold, we’d, they’re, Franco, You’ve, Antonioni, Kurosawa, Citizen Ruth ”, Mike Nichols, Francis Coppola, Lifechanging, Bob Rafelson, Milos Foreman, Jim Taylor, Ivan Passer’s, Milos, Ivan, Jim, Fireman’s, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, ” “, David O, Russell, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch —, Steven Soderbergh, “ Soderbergh, Jake Coyle Organizations: eBay, New, Somerville Theatre, Stanford, Columbia School of Journalism, Castro Theatre, Times, Franco, Citizen, “, ”, MOMA Locations: Omaha , Nebraska, New England, Manhattan, Boston, “, San Francisco, Spain

☆ This $18 million Invisible House is the most expensive listing in Joshua Tree — and it's already a money-maker
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Ray Parisi | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Brian AshbyThe modern glass architecture is situated on 67.5 acres just steps away from the Joshua Tree National Park. Brian AshbyThe home was designed by film producer and current owner, Chris Hanley, and Frank Gehry-collaborator, architect Tomas Osinski. According to co-listing agent Matt Adamo, the highest price ever achieved for a home in Joshua Tree was $3.5 million. The Invisible House in Joshua Tree, California is a mirrored 22-story horizontal skyscraper. The rooftop of the Invisible House is equipped with an array of solar panels that supply the home with electricity, heat and hot water.

How to watch 'Teen Wolf: The Movie' (2023)You can now watch "Teen Wolf: The Movie" on Paramount Plus. You can watch "Teen Wolf: The Movie" for free if you sign up for a Paramount Plus free trial. Is 'Teen Wolf: The Movie' a continuation of the MTV series? "Teen Wolf: The Movie" is a continuation of the MTV series. If you want to catch up on MTV's "Teen Wolf" series before you stream the new movie, you can watch all six seasons of "Teen Wolf" on Paramount Plus and Hulu.

☆ MLB roundup: Guardians clinch AL Central title for first time since 2018
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +13 min

Hunter Dozier capped the Royals' scoring with an RBI single to make it 13-11 following Ryan O'Hearn's two-run double. Astros 6, Orioles 3 (11 innings)Christian Vazquez's two-run single capped a four-run 11th inning and visiting Houston defeated Baltimore. Jeimer Candelario followed Schoop's RBI single with a run-scoring single of his own. The White Sox's loss allowed the Cleveland Guardians to clinch their first American League Central title since 2018. Yadier Molina had an RBI single for the NL Central-leading Cardinals, who dropped consecutive games to the Dodgers after winning Friday.

☆ (video) 10 filme pe care să le privești într-o zi ploioasă
▼ + stars: | 2015-10-11 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: 1 min

(video) 10 filme pe care să le privești într-o zi ploioasăO duminică ploioasă și posomorâtă este perfectă pentru a organiza un maraton al filmelor. Iată un top 10 producții cinematografice pe care să le savurez cu o ceașcă de ceai sau cafea fierbinte. What Women Want#6. The Age of Adaline#7. The Time Traveler’s Wife#10.

Persons: Eat, Poseidon, Amelie Locations: Paris

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