I experienced war, religious persecution, and violence as a child.
I was lucky that my family and I fled as asylum seekers.
Children deserve to grow in peace. We must do better.
#WorldChildrensDay
President Biden will announce a new national monument to preserve land around Grand Canyon National Park and limit it from mining, White House officials say. https://t.co/oHslem8zsm
Donald Trump's lawyer says he wants the January 6 trial to be televised. Excellent. Let's do this and show the world what American justice looks like.
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Big news: I'm pleased to announce that today, we're issuing a new rule to improve accessibility in air travel, including requiring airlines to install bathrooms that can accommodate wheelchair users. https://t.co/vPSoW1yWa3
What a great story.
Nat King Cole was an enormously popular crooner, earning $4,500 a week in Las Vegas in 1956. He headlined at the whites-only Thunderbird Hotel, where he wasn't allowed to venture beyond the showroom and the cook's resting area behind the kitchen. Cole's road manager was given a room in the hotel because he was white, but the high-paid feature attraction had to find other accommodations. He regularly stayed in a rooming house on the West Side.
Frank Sinatra was a great fan of Cole's. While performing at the Sands, Sinatra noticed that Cole almost always ate his dinner alone in his dressing room. Sinatra asked his valet, a black man named George, to find out why. George explained the facts to Frank. "Coloreds aren't allowed in the dining room at the Sands."
Sinatra was enraged. He told the maitre d' and the waitresses that if it ever happened again, he'd see that everyone was fired.
The next night, Sinatra invited Cole to dinner, making his guest the first black man to sit down and eat in the the Garden Room at the Sands.
Big news in transportation: we are advancing the new Hudson River Tunnel to the Engineering phase – a major step toward completion. This critical train tunnel serves 200k people daily and affects commerce across the country, but is more than 110 years old. https://t.co/MkcFpmOVj7
#ScottsdalePD used cutting-edge drones to rescue a missing elderly man with dementia. Responding to a distress call, officers deployed a #drone equipped with advanced imaging. The drone located the man within minutes, and ground officers safely returned him to his family.
#BREAKING | New York City Public Schools, the largest school district in the United States, will pivot to remote instruction on Friday, the Department of Education announced Thursday.
After a lot of pressure from USDOT, every major US airline has stepped up its commitments to customers. For example: a year ago, none of the ten largest airlines guaranteed meals when they’re responsible for a travel disruption. Now, they all do.