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Today is International Human Rights Day, which commemorates the day in 1948 the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One of the prime movers behind the declaration was Eleanor Roosevelt. As Mary Jo Binker and Brigid O’Farrell write on the History News Network that was just one piece of her long post-White House, progressive—and pro-union—activist life after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1945 death. Something they say was glossed over in the recent Ken Burns series "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History."
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The winner beat out Ferguson protesters, Vladimir Putin, Taylor Swift, Jack Ma, Tim Cook, Masoud Barzani, and Roger Goodell.
Officials found at least two people dead and several injured after a fire ripped through a North Dallas apartment complex for seniors Wednesday.
A police officer shook Aiyana Rains' hand and said "I'm sorry" during a demonstration over the police shooting of the 9-year-old's father.
Ron Ingraham, 67, was last heard from on Nov. 27, when he placed two mayday calls saying his 25-foot sailboat was taking on water.
Ron Ingraham was last heard from when he placed two mayday calls saying his vessel was in danger of sinking 46 miles west of Hawaii.
In an interview with Telemundo's Jose Diaz-Balart, President Obama said threatened countries often act in ways that are wrong.
The Northeast and the West Coast face potential flooding and travel-disrupting wind over the next couple of days, forecasters said Wednesday.
A Missouri inmate was put to death early Wednesday for fatally beating a 63-year-old woman with a hammer in 1998.
