In March 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the vision of a global community of shared future; in September and October that year, he raised the initiatives of joining with others to build a Silk Road Economic
adopted on July 9, 1868. Influenced by his mentor, Salmon P. Chase, Bingham was a strong supporter of the antislavery cause; after Chase lost the Republican presidential nomination to Abraham Lincoln (b), Bingham became one of the president’s most ardent supporters. ...
South Africa's election in March is set to be highly contested. The ruling ANC party, which has governed the country since Nelson Mandela became leader in 1994, faces a range of challenges. Ex-presidentJacob Zuma, who was ousted by current leaderCyril Ramaphosaamid wide-ranging alleg...
Abraham Lincoln became president during a time of deep unrest and turmoil in the United States. The issue of slavery was splitting the states apart, with those who were pro-slavery threatening to secede from the Union and form their own, separate country....
By the time John Adams became president in 1797, the hostilities between the U.S. and France had grown quite intense. It's no surprise, then, that in 1798, France snubbed the U.S. when it invited dignitaries from foreign countries to travel to Paris to learn about the metric system. ...
Eventually, on August 9th, the Unionist James Webb Throckmorton became state governor, and things could proceed. President Johnson then gave a new proclamation on August 20th stating that “insurrection is at an end” and “peace, order, tranquility, and civil authority now exist in and through...
In June, the court issued its decision. Overturning the Ninth Circuit, it ruled the president is free to fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau without cause. The agency's leadership by a single director removable only for inefficiency, neglect, or malfeasance violates the ...
WASHINGTON - Proceeding cautiously, President Obama insistedFriday that any use of chemical...Julie PaceDonna Cassata
To anyone casually watching Deflategate, the civil war pitting Goodell against the Patriots and their star quarterback made no sense. Why were the league's premier franchise, led by a cherished team owner, and Brady, one of the NFL's greatest ambassadors, being smeared because a little air ...
The cause for the Civil War was not a single event; instead it was a combination of several. In general, the South felt overpowered by the North socially, economically, and culturally. The two sides’ ways of life were completely different in every aspect of the word. At the heart of ...