National U.S. Postage Stamp Day is celebrated annually on July 1st, commemorating the day the first US postage stamp was issued in 1847. Four individuals with Wilmington connections have been ...

CALGARY - The Calgary Stampeders have placed receiver Reggie Begelton on the six-game injury list, the CFL team announced Wednesday. Begelton injured his right knee in the Stampeders’ 29-19 win ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of 95, her family announced in a statement. Chamorro, an unlikely leader ...

A quick, three-hour flight was all it took to trade in North America’s unpredictable spring for the steady warmth of Nicaragua’s dry season. It was April, and though the rains were still weeks ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

That conflict made Nicaragua one of the big proxy battlegrounds of the Cold War. Chamorro put her country on the path to democracy in the difficult years following the Sandinista revolution of ...

an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in presidential elections and ending Nicaragua ...

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A religious ceremony was being planned in San Jose. Her remains will be held in Costa Rica “until Nicaragua returns to being a Republic,” the statement said. In more recent years, the family ...

like Medicaid and food stamps. Americans broadly support increasing or maintaining existing levels of funding for popular safety net programs, including Social Security and Medicare, according to ...