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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 12 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba were laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday amid honors including a procession through the capital, military salutes and music in front of thousands of people. Congo’s President Felix Tshisikedi saluted Lumumba, calling him a humanist who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. “Today, the Congolese people are able to understand how and why he fought the oppression of the time without fear or trembling,” said Tshisikedi. Lumumba was interred in a Chinese-built mausoleum topped by a towering statue in a central square in Kinshasa. The ceremony was attended by diplomats and dignitaries including President Denis Sassou N’guesso of the neighboring Republic of Congo who mingled in the courtyard in front of the mausoleum. Lumumba … [Read more...] about Remains of Congo’s independence hero interred amid honors

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — History will be made in the United States on Thursday. For the first time, an African American woman will take a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on Thursday at noon. READ MORE: Man Killed In Road Rage Shooting In Springfield Identified, Authorities Say Not only will she be the first Black woman to sit on the high court. It’ll also be the first time four women sit together as Supreme Court justices. After last week’s stunning reversal of Roe v. Wade , the Supreme Court is set to make history once again. Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal judge since 2013, will be sworn in as the first Black woman to serve as a justice on the nation’s highest court. “It is an honor, the honor of a lifetime for me to have this chance to join the court, promote the rule of law at the highest level and to do my part to carry our shared project of democracy and equal justice … [Read more...] about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson To Be Sworn In As First Black Woman On Supreme Court

The Terminal List features Chris Pratt going vengefully homicidal due, in part, to a serious mental condition in Amazon’s latest, which follows in the tradition of Jack Ryan and Jack Reacher by delivering gung-ho macho action-drama tailor-made for fortysomething Call of Duty players . Still, if this adaptation of Jack Carr’s novel mostly fits itself into a particular dad-entertainment streaming niche, it also, to a large extent, comes off as a wet dream for militia-minded anti-establishment kooks, replete with a Pratt performance as a Navy SEAL who responds to injustice by murdering the guilty with extreme prejudice. Given its suggestion that slaughtering your powers-that-be enemies for a righteous revenge cause is totally OK and very cool, the morality of showrunner David DiGilio and executive producer/director Antoine Fuqua’s eight-part series (July 1) is, let’s say, lacking. There’s some serious danger to The Terminal List , courtesy of its excessive take on the … [Read more...] about Chris Pratt’s ‘The Terminal List’ Is an Unhinged Right-Wing Revenge Fantasy