He was hanged for helping slaves rebel. Now Connecticut officials are asking Virginia for a pardon

(Contributed) He was hanged for helping slaves rebel. Now Connecticut officials are asking Virginia for a pardon Aug. 5, 2018 Waving a white flag of surrender after the failed raid on Harpers Ferry, Aaron Dwight Stevens was riddled with bullets to the face, neck and chest...

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What you need to know about Michael McFaul, the ex-U.S. envoy drawn into the center of another Trump-Russia flap

Reporting from Washington —  When Michael McFaul served as U.S. ambassador to Moscow under the Obama administration, he unexpectedly found himself the subject of a concerted Russian propaganda campaign, accused of plotting to overthrow leader Vladimir Putin as well as pedophilia. It was in many ways a...

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Once banned, the facial tattoo reappears as a cultural asset and political weapon in Taiwan

Reporting from Xincheng Township, Taiwan —  As a child, Kimi Sibal got his first lesson on the significance and the stigma of the facial tattoo when he asked his grandmother about the strange markings on her face. Facial tattoos had been banned in Taiwan by Japanese colonists...

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A Washington state town had become listless. Then a bar came to town and everything began to change

Reporting from CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON —  In the southwest Washington town of Centralia, hard by a set of railroad tracks, stands the Olympic Club, famous as the place where the notorious train robber Roy Gardner was finally collared in 1921 after a series of brash heists and escapes...

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