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Who is Salva Kiir? From rebel leader to president
Born in 1951 to a family of cattle herders, Kiir joined the southern rebellion against the Sudanese government in the 1960s ...
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Who is Salva Kiir, the former rebel leading fractured South Sudan?
He relinquished his military fatigues for a suit, and was rarely seen in public without a trademark black cowboy hat, after then-U.S. President George W. Bush gave him one in 2006. Kiir lacked ...
Country music fans left in floods of tears over Carrie Underwood's touching gesture at Opry 100
The 42-year-old country crooner paid tribute to her mentor Randy Travis, who suffered a near-fatal stroke in 2013 ...
Trump’s Media Pit Bull Is “Off the Leash”
FCC chair Brendan Carr has already inspired widespread fear (and loathing) among media elites and free press advocates. And ...
How Kristi Noem’s $50,000 Rolex in a Salvadoran prison became a political flashpoint
When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem visited El Salvador’s most notorious megaprison on Wednesday, she sported an eye-catching piece on her wrist that experts have identified as an 18-karat ...
Texas Democrats look for new leader to give party focus heading into midterm elections
Trump last year carried Texas by nearly 14 percentage points after being held to single-digit wins in 2016 and 2020. U.S. Sen ...
Inside the movement to redirect billions of taxpayer dollars to private religious schools
This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and The New Yorker. The Ohio Model: Rarely seen letters show how the ...