BBC"I cried for joy when I heard the news," says lead plaintiff Amanda ZurawskiWomen in Texas with serious pregnancy complications will be temporarily exempted from the southern US state's abortion ban, a judge has ruled. Judge Jessica Mangrum said there was a lack of clarity in the legislation, siding with women and doctors who had sued Texas over the ban in March. Doctors would not be prosecuted when exercising their "

John Brown's Holy War | Article The Harpers Ferry Raid By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created by a pair of rivers. The arsenal was a huge complex of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles.  Brown tried to persuade his friend Frederick Douglass to join him.

In 1941 President Roosevelt stationed fifty B17 bombers in the Philippines, standing between the Japanese and Dutch East Indian oil fields they needed so desperately to circumvent the American oil embargo. Roosevelt also ordered the U.S. Fleet to the Pacific. On December 2, 1941, Hawaii received a message from Washington that began, "This is a war warning." From deciphering the Japanese code, the U.S. knew Admiral Yamamoto was planning a Pacific attack, but not when or where.

DOHA, Qatar — The United States and the Taliban signed a peace deal Saturday that calls for the full withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan within 14 months — a turning point in an 18-year war that has cost tens of thousands of lives. The complete withdrawal of U.S. and coalition troops is contingent on a guarantee from the Taliban that Afghan soil will not be used by terrorists with aims to attack the United States or its allies, according to a copy of the agreement released by the State Department as the signing was underway.

George Wallace – From the Heart By Colman McCarthy Friday, March 17, 1995; Page A27 In the annals of religious and political conversions, few shiftings were as unlikely as George Wallace's. In Montgomery, Ala., last week, the once irrepressible governor – now 75, infirm, pain-wracked and in a wheelchair since his 1972 shooting – held hands with black southerners and sang "We Shall Overcome." What Wallace overcame is his past hatred that made him both the symbol and enforcer of anti-black racism in the 1960s.