Dolly Parton's family chose to shield the public from her cancer battle because the 80-year-old singer "never wanted to worry anybody", a decision her niece says left even close relatives in shock when the end came. Jada Star, Parton's niece and the daughter of Parton's sister Frieda, sat down with Extra in an interview published […] The post Dolly Parton's niece reveals why the country icon kept her cancer diagnosis secret appeared first on American Almanac .
Dolly Parton's family chose to shield the public from her cancer battle because the 80-year-old singer "never wanted to worry anybody", a decision her niece says left even close relatives in shock when the end came. Jada Star, Parton's niece and the daughter of Parton's sister Frieda, sat down with Extra in an interview published September 1 to describe the private grief behind one of the most public losses in American music. Parton died August 25 at a Nashville medical center, surrounded by loved ones, after what her representatives called a brief battle with cancer. The specific type of cancer has not been disclosed. The interview offered the first extended family account of why Parton, a woman who built a career on openness,…Open
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the […] The post Philadelphia schools brought a convicted felon and prison abolition group into classrooms for mandatory student workshops appeared first on American Almanac .
Pennsylvania's largest school district partnered with a self-described "revolutionary" organization to run mandatory "liberation" workshops for students, led in part by a convicted felon with a record of antisemitic statements. The School District of Philadelphia hosted a series of symposia between 2025 and 2026 organized through a partnership between a 10th-grade history teacher and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction, an outfit that openly describes itself as a "political education program for aspiring revolutionaries." Among the facilitators who led sessions for children as young as seventh grade: Anthony Smith, who pleaded guilty to a felony for his role in torching a police car during the riots…Open
"I'm not going to play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have political disagreements with them. I think that is a terrible place for the United States to go," he said during the White House press briefing.
It’s wild the way Democrats and the dying news media love to pipe up whenever someone gets hurt in the course of immigration law enforcement. It’s an inadvertent reminder that President Trump is doing something right and we’re only still in this godforsaken mess because of them. The latest incident involves a Haitian migrant, 20-year-old […]
Gloria Steinem, the American journalist and political activist who became the face of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died at age 92, according to her verified Instagram account. Steinem died Wednesday in New York City, “surrounded by some of the many who loved her,” the statement on social media said. “Gloria’s near-century on earth were years well-lived, and she continued working for equality until the very end,” the statement read. Steinem was a feminist icon who spent the better part of a century advocating for women’s rights in the workplace, the right to abortion and sex education. Her name and face became almost synonymous with the fight for women’s rights. She continued to be a vocal…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth set up a lemonade stand by the Reflecting Pool in order to raise money to allow the military to purchase more missiles.
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