From the Collection: Native Americans Editor’s note: When L. Frank Baum and other white settlers arrived in Aberdeen, South Dakota in the 1880s, they were entering land that had been part of the homeland of the Western Sioux or Lakota. On the Standing Rock and Pine Ridge reservations west of Aberdeen, conditions were dire for the over 10,000 Lakota living there. In the following excerpt from God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America, Louis S. Read More...
Three D.C. police officers serving an arrest warrant related to animal cruelty were shot and wounded Wednesday morning near Benning Park in Southeast Washington, prompting a nearly 13-hour standoff that ended when the suspect surrendered, authorities said.
The armed standoff in the 5000 block of Hanna Place SE came to a close just before 9 p.m., having disrupted schools and forced neighbors out of their homes along a street with small brick houses and plots of grass. Read More...
Explore More Talk about “Freaky Deaky.”
Tyga, 33, showcases his bare, tattooed butt in new Instagram photos shared Sunday. “My presence is a present…kiss my a–,” the “Brand New” rapper wrote, using a Kanye West lyric from “Monster” to caption a carousel of four shots on an unidentified beach. He poses shirtless in the first three photos before dropping his royal blue Nike shorts in the fourth, unexpected candid. Tyga is covered in tattoos — this is his first time mooning the world with his inked derriere. Read More...
