"It was not an easy childhood."
Omar Yaghi, whose parents were from Palestine, grew up in a refugee family of ten children, in a home with no running water and no electricity.
Last year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cage-like molecules that can capture and release smaller substances, like water.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has officially announced the recognition of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal visits the Wall of Tears in Dearborn, Michigan
This heart-rending visual display memorializes the over 18,500 children killed by the Israeli military in the besieged Gaza Strip between October 7, 2023 and July 2025
Blumenthal reads the names and ages of several of these children, and places their lives in the broader context of Gaza's occupation, siege and genocide at the hands of the state of Israel
June 19, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 ordering the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” #Juneteenth