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Irina and Kevin McCarthy, parents of a 2-year-old boy, were among the seven victims in Highland Park shooting on Monday at a Fourth of July parade.

Forget the fictional Jack and Rose. The real love story on the Titanic took place between 67-year-old Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy's department store, and his wife Ida, who was 63.

Adjust Share The personal tragedy that shaped Joe Biden’s life was essential to the narrative of his 2020 campaign for president, as it had been during his past campaigns and for most of his political life. In January 2020, before the pandemic killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, The New York Review of Books had already described Biden as our “designated mourner.” As deaths from the coronavirus began to rise, National Review suggested that Biden’s empathy might be his most important quality in this “time of national sorrow.” The New York Times hail...

0 shares Illustrative image: Susan Foster, left, listens as her 7-year-old daughter Amelia plays on a Zebulon Baird Vance Statue at the Capitol as teachers and concerned citizens attend a Get Your Facts Straight! Rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, August 15, 2013. High school teacher Matthew Caggia, right, and others rallied to criticize the Republican legislature for public school policies approved this year and accuse them of misleading the public about their effects on the classroom. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) A statue of Zebulon Vance of North Carolina is on display in Statuary Hall on ...

The Lower East Side: Where Historic Tenements Meet Glassy Towers In recent years, the country’s ‘most famous immigrant neighborhood’ has welcomed new high-end development. But it still has an old-school vibe. By Aileen Jacobson Published Dec. 23, 2020Updated Dec. 24, 2020 Richard Kimmel was drawn to the Lower East Side partly by “a lot of family history,” he said, including his great-grandmother, “who arrived at Ellis Island on the Fourth of July in 1898,” and made her way to the densely populated neighborhood that has long been a haven for immigrants of many origins, with Easte...