In all, about 16 percent of U.S. residents today were born abroad, exceeding the previous high of 14.8 percent in 1890. The causes ... those from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian ...

In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of ... “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated ...

Today, immigrants account for 13.8% of the nation’s population—near the record high from 1890—and they have come from just about ... China was only the third-most popular answer in 2007, behind Iran ...

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has indefinitely suspended the 1890 Scholars Program, a vital initiative that provides financial assistance to students from rural and underserved ...

The USDA 1890 National Scholars Program, which provides scholarships to students attending HBCUs for agriculture-related studies, has reopened its application process. The program, suspended in ...

The USDA 1890 Scholars Program, which provided scholarships to students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, has been suspended. The program, which provided full tuition and other ...

IT’S CALLED THE 1890 SCHOLARS PROGRAM. IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1992 AS PART OF A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE USDA AND THE 1890 LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES. THE PROGRAM GIVES STUDENTS FROM RURAL AND ...

But what takes years to build can collapse seemingly overnight. Iraq is the latest country in which many leaders are attempting to move out of Iran’s orbit. Last year, the Axis rapidly slid from ...

Iraq is diversifying its energy strategy by reducing its reliance on Iranian gas. Baghdad is looking to secure LNG as it works to ramp up domestic gas production. Tensions between Baghdad and the ...