by Kietryn Zychal | Nov 21, 2018 | Featured, Living
As President Donald Trump continued a White House tradition and pardoned two genetically-engineered Broad Breasted White turkeys, Frank Reese was tending a different sort of bird in Lindsborg, Kansas: The descendants of the first domesticated turkeys bred in North...
by Ashley Graham | Aug 21, 2018 | Living
WASHINGTON– Chicago native Maya Pitts says she still feels like a winner after last weekend’s Miss Black USA pageant because she got to see her platform in action. As Miss Black Illinois, Pitts, 25, focused her platform on her SELFIE campaign which...
by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu & Xiaozhang (Shaw) Wan | Aug 15, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of comics and animations fans, wearing the outfits of beloved characters like magic girl Cardcaptor Sakura and soldiers fighting giants in Attack on Titans, gathered in Washington over the weekend to celebrate Japanese manga and...
by Basma Amer & Loumay Alesali | Aug 13, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — About two dozen white nationalists rallied Sunday near the White House on the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville riot, while about a thousand counterprotesters yelled at them from across the wide expanse of Lafayette Park. The National...
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by Yanchun (Roxanne) Liu & Xiaozhang (Shaw) Wan | Aug 13, 2018 | Entertainment, Living
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) — A young boy was doodling a portrait of the iconic anime Sailor Moon when the real thing – a woman dressed as the magical girl who befriends a talking cat – showed up in the staid Library of Congress. At a workshop Thursday...
by Basma Amer & Ashley Graham | Aug 9, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON–Generation Z, coming in behind Millennials, is already more active on social causes than older generations, according to data from Fuse Marketing. They’re more likely to spend time and money on issues they believe in and some researchers say...
