Given to the church by a local store owner who bartered for the items, the state’s Episcopal leadership had been reluctant to return the artifacts for decades, but it shifted its stance as the tribe continued pressing for the items’ return and as the nation more broadly recognized past wrongs toward Native tribes. (Kaur, The Washington Post)
Read MoreMeteorologists’ role of delivering lifesaving weather forecasts and explaining climate science sometimes makes them targets for harassment, and this kind of abuse has been happening for years, weather experts said. (Selig, The New York Times)
Read MoreImagine if having children came with more than $150,000 in cheap loans, a subsidized minivan and a lifetime exemption from income taxes. Would people have more kids? The answer, it seems, is no. (Dulaney, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreA new Pew Research Center analysis of the accounts Americans follow on TikTok highlights the centrality of internet-native content creators, prominent influencers and traditional celebrities on the popular short-form video platform. It also finds that users choose to follow far more accounts that post about pop culture and entertainment than those posting about news or politics. (Widjaya, Bestvater & Smith, Pew Research)
Read MoreArchaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world. (Czachor, CBS News)
Read MoreResearcher conducted over 22 years suggests that Columbus was not a sailor from Genoa, as previously believed, but in fact from a family of Jewish silk spinners from Valencia. (Badcock, The Telegraph)
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