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Scranton homeowner finds long-lost Bible listing Biden ancestors, returns it to president’s family Updated Jan 23, 2021; Posted Jan 23, 2021 Joe Biden is sworn in as U.S. President during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)Getty Images Facebook Share About 2008, Melissa Kutney was scouring cubbies built into a room of her former Scranton home when she discovered a 19th century Bible and a broken ro...

Top: Carlingford, Co. Louth, the main town on the Cooley Peninsula, with Slieve Foy in the background. Bottom: Deirbles Twist, Fallmore, Mullet Peninsula, Co. Mayo. Images: Tourism Ireland. By Darina Molloy Mayo on the west coast and Louth on the east, boast some of the most historic sites in Ireland, and now locals living in the area of the Cooley Peninsula and Ballina can expect many the curious traveler on the trail of President Joe Biden’s Irish ancestors.  (Al...

World leaders welcomed into their ranks the new US President Joe Biden, noting their most pressing problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, require multilateral cooperation, an approach his predecessor Donald Trump ridiculed. Many expressed hope Biden would right US democracy two weeks after rioters stormed the Capitol, shaking the faith of those fighting for democracy in their own countries. READ MORE: President Joe Biden pauses as he signs his first executive orders in t...

Joe Biden’s ancestral homes on the west and east coast of Ireland have celebrated his inauguration with champagne and cake while waving Irish and American flags. The US president’s proud links to Ireland are well known and often spoken about by the Democrat. He is seen by many as the most Irish American president to date, with his heritage tracing back to Ballina in Co Mayo and the Cooley Peninsula in Co Louth. Many of his distant cousins toasted his swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol, mar...

Joe Biden’s ancestral home towns in Ireland celebrated his inauguration with champagne and cake while waving Irish and American flags. The new US president, who has often spoken about his links to Ireland, traces his roots back to Co Mayo and Co Louth. Many of his distant cousins toasted his swearing-in ceremony, and homes across both counties were decked out in the stars and stripes. Mr Biden’s great great-grandfather James Finnegan left his...

About 2008, Melissa Kutney was scouring cubbies built into a room of her former Scranton home when she discovered a 19th Century Bible and a broken rosary tucked away in

SCRANTON, Pa. -- In the downtown here, if you pass Courthouse Square on Adams Avenue, then merge onto Washington Avenue, you’ll eventually enter Green Ridge, a neighborhood seemingly preserved in ’50s-era America. “It’s a Norman Rockwell kind of scene,” Sarah Piccini, assistant director of the Lackawanna Historical Society, told me. Indeed, stately old residences line this leafy stretch of North Washington Avenue, where “Scranton Loves Joe” signs adorn lawns and a large, ornamenta...