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The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday launched a civil rights probe into the Rankin County Sheriff's Department in ...

Enlistment into any branch of the U.S. military, by citizens of countries other than the United States is limited to ... The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act website has a request form to obtain ...

The “constitutional sheriff” movement descends from other far-right movements of the past few decades, but, around 2011, ex-sheriff Richard Mack decided to turn the sheriff into the key figure, the ...

Three years after the military staged a coup, intensifying a civil war, civilians continue to pay the price, according to a ...

Lawmakers in the House are launching plan B to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. Speaker Mike Johnson ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States ... the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s ... Above all, there is his evolution on civil rights. He began the Civil War ...

Thousands of pagers exploded across Lebanon yesterday - reports say Israel's spy agency, Mossad, was targeting Hezbollah ...

Kennedy mostly avoided civil rights issues, afraid to alienate Southern ... in practice had proven anything but equal. Yet Southern states defied the court's decision. In Mississippi, Medgar ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is sending Egypt its full $1.3 billion allocation of military aid, setting aside ...

New explosions linked to electronic devices killed at least 20 people and injured more than 450 across Lebanon on Wednesday, ...