TUAL, Indonesia — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday after a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island. After 17 hours overnight at sea, the men, mostly from Myanmar, filed off the boats and walked to the site of their new […]
Prom season might be coming to an end, but it lives on in photographs for President Barack Obama. TIME has unearthed snapshots from the President’s 1979 prom in Hawaii. The previously unpublished photos of a 17-year-old Obama on the night of his senior prom came from Obama’s classmate, Kelli Allman (née McCormack), who is pictured […]
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Nine-year-old Asean Johnson may need to stand up on a chair to be seen above the podium from which he speaks, but he holds in him a wisdom and fire well beyond his years. Watch him address the crowds that assembled Monday to protest Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s school closures agenda, which will affect Garvey […]
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Dozens of people — including several children — were killed when a massive tornado struck an area outside Oklahoma City on Monday afternoon, officials said. At least seven of those children were killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, according to a police official. Emergency personnel on Tuesday continued to scour the school’s […]
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