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Rasputin: Russia's Dynastical Healer And Disco Icon

That hypnotic stare haunts historical photographs and album covers alike. Rasputin's unlikely path led straight through the ...

At least 24 relatives of Putin get state-linked jobs, investigative journalists say

Proyekt also reported that the third generation of Putin's family —his grandnephews — had joined the government following ...

Russia opens tourist route reconstructing Romanov family's last journey

Tourists curious about Russia's imperial past can now ride on a special train running through the Ural mountains along the ...

Names of 5 million Holocaust victims identified, Israel's Yad Vashem says

Israel’s Holocaust memorial says it has now identified 5 million of the 6 million Jewish victims killed by the Nazis — a ...
Henry Stewart History on MSN

The Fall of the Romanovs: War, Revolution, and the Execution of the Last Tsar

Russia went to war in 1914 — and it destroyed the monarchy. Soldiers had no rifles, cities had no bread, and Tsar Nicholas II ...
Reuters

Freed Gaza photographer overjoyed to find family alive after being told in Israeli jail they were dead

Palestinian photojournalist says Israeli prison guards told him his family had been killed in Gaza war Shadi Abu Sido was detained without trial under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law Says he was ...
The New York Times

Newsom Rejects Bills Providing Benefits to Slavery Descendants

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California vetoed bills that would have provided tangible benefits to those descendants, though he approved a state agency to determine who qualifies for potential reparations. By ...
KSL

4-year-old boy rescued from Big Cottonwood kept alive by machine, family says

BIG COTTONWOOD CANYON — The family of a 31-year-old man and his three young children, who were rescued in Big Cottonwood Canyon over the weekend, says one boy remains in the hospital. On Sunday, the ...
11Alive

Family releases statement, photos of 6-year-old girl who died during field trip in Polk County

POLK COUNTY, Georgia — The family of a Paulding County 6-year-old girl who tragically died while on a field trip in Polk County is remembering her life as they continue to grieve and search for ...
FierceBiotech

Gilead, Arcus keep TIGIT dream alive with 27-month OS data from phase 2 cancer cohort

Gilead Sciences and Arcus Biosciences’ anti-TIGIT antibody domvanalimab has been tied to median overall survival of close to 27 months, keeping alive one of the last remaining hopes for this ...
Times Argus

Montpelier Alive: Ramble through Montpelier’s illuminated cityscape

It is hard to believe that it is almost one year since the bridge lights first turned on in Montpelier. Since the joyful opening event on Nov. 16, seven illuminated bridges spanning the North Branch ...
New York Post

Father of Israeli-American hostage assumed murdered by Hamas still prays for ‘a miracle’ he’ll walk out alive

The Brooklyn-born father of an Israeli-American believed to be among those murdered by Hamas said Sunday that he’s still holding out hope for “a miracle” that his son might come home alive. While the ...