A piece of the Berlin Wall comes to the State Department. Watch as a segment of the Berlin Wall is delivered to the State Department for installation in the U.S. Diplomacy Center. The installation occurred on the 54th anniversary of the closure of the border from East to West Berlin on ...
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Visiting Mandela’s birthplace as well as the Robben Island prison where he was imprisoned for 27 years, are among the most moving experiences of my life. Even though I am no politician, the words and actions of John F. Kennedy, Jawaharlal Nehru and Nelson Mandela have profoundly shaped my ...
The Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 mandated that all states report certain required information on the death of any person who is detained, arrested, en route to incarceration, or incarcerated in state or local facilities or a boot camp prison. The law further created penalties for not...
State of the Union message that SDI would become part of the national defense program. If SDI was not created at that time, the existence of the Patriot missile would be impossible. The Patriot is an offspring of the SDI program. American people today know how valuable that program is. ...
Mason served as one of his state's delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. That trip to Philadelphia was one of the only times he left Virginia. While there, his left his stamp on many clauses in our Constitution. Then he refused to sign it, which is why you wo...
The State Department has designated the PKK a terrorist organization but has argued with Turkey over the group’s ties to the Syrian Kurds. According to the Turkish government statement after the call, Erdogan also raised concerns about the presence in the United States of cleric Fethullah Gulen...
Aerial view of Maryland State House capitol building in Annapolis The capital city of Maryland,Annapolisis a lovely seaport with four centuries of history. With its old brick streets and 18th-century colonial homes, the town is a living open-air museum. ...
Gilmore focuses specifically on California prison systems and analyses the systematic forces at work in this crisis. “Gilmore, a professor at the City University of New York graduate center, provides one of the first cumulative, critical analysis of the political economy of super incarceration in ...
to 10 years in prison in 2014, according to his sister. In October,there were reportsof another detention: The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post reported that Siamak Namazi, a Dubai-based businessman with dual U.S. and Iranian citizenship, was detained while visiting relatives in Tehran...