Commonwealth

Commonwealth and COP29 Presidency open funding call for climate action proposals from Commonwealth small island states

The Commonwealth Secretariat and Azerbaijan’s COP29 Presidency have opened a call for proposals to provide the 25 ...

‘Declarations: Black Americans & The Revolutionary War’ Doc Filmmakers On Using GenAI To “Give Our Historical Subjects Agency”

Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War follows the stories of four Black Americans as they navigate our ...
The New York Times

They’re Some of the Most Famous Words Ever Written. Have You Ever Really Read Them?

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...
The New York Times

Word Choices

We explore six sentences that have shaped the American story. By Sam Sifton I’m the host of The Morning. Good morning. The Spurs slipped past the Knicks last night, 115-111, ending a 13-game winning ...
wnep

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture signs disaster declaration to aid Pennsylvania farmers

LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — The livestock were listening as legislators from Washington, D.C. came to Lackawanna County to provide aid for farmers. Congressman Rob Bresnahan and U.S. Secretary of ...
The Times Leader

Rep. Bresnahan hosts Secretary Rollins to sign disaster declaration in Scott Twp.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signs a Secretarial Disaster Declaration for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a response to a catastrophic freeze that struck Pennsylvania on April ...
Detroit Free Press

'Deleted clauses' of the Declaration of Independence remain critical

Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence included clauses condemning the slave trade. Historian Holly Brewer's research suggests the founders believed "all men are created ...