RFI – Basketball star Brittney Griner blazed a trail as a US Olympic champion and LGBTQ pioneer before her career was abruptly disrupted by her arrest and imprisonment in Moscow in a Cold War-style standoff between the United States and Russia. The 32-year-old’s nine-month ordeal — which unfolded against the backdrop of soaring tensions over […]readmore
RFI – Washington (AFP) – La estrella del baloncesto estadounidense Brittney Griner, que permaneció detenida en Rusia durante nueve meses, fue liberada el jueves en el marco de un intercambio de prisioneros con el traficante de armas ruso Viktor Bout, encarcelado durante diez años en Estados Unidos. El intercambio tuvo lugar el jueves en el aeropuerto […]readmore
RFI – María Carolina Piña El presidente estadounidense Joe Biden confirmó que la basquetbolista “está a salvo” y en camino de regreso a su país. Estados Unidos y Rusia intercambiaron prisioneros este jueves 8 de diciembre, entre ellos la estrella del baloncesto estadounidense Brittney Griner y el traficante de armas ruso Viktor Bout, según anunciaron respectivamente […]readmore
CNN – (CNN Español) — Brittney Griner, quien fue liberada este jueves tras su detención en Rusia en febrero de este año, es una de las grandes estrellas del baloncesto femenino de Estados Unidos y es, además, una figura que se ha abierto camino en escenarios tan dispares como los murales callejeros de Phoenix y la Casa Blanca. […]readmore
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As part of his continuing effort to put pressure on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, President Ronald Reagan orders over 3,000 U.S. troops to Honduras, claiming that Nicaraguan soldiers had crossed its borders. As with so many of the other actions taken against Nicaragua during the Reagan years, the result was only more confusion […]readmore
On March 1, 1974, in addition to handing up criminal indictments against seven former high-ranking officials in the Nixon administration, a grand jury in the District of Columbia named the president himself as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up. The drumbeat of bad news was growing louder by the month for President Nixon, as […]readmore
On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan begins teaching six-year-old Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing after a severe illness at the age of 19 months. Under Sullivan’s tutelage, including her pioneering “touch teaching” techniques, the previously uncontrollable Keller flourished, eventually graduating from college and becoming an international lecturer and activist. Sullivan, later […]readmore
Actor Robert Mitchum is released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana possession there. In the fall of 1948, Mitchum, the star of classics such as Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter, was smoking a joint at a small party in the Laurel […]readmore
On this day in 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, Colonel William Travis issues a call for help on behalf of the Texan troops defending the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and fortress under attack by the Mexican army. A native of Alabama, Travis moved to the Mexican state of Texas in 1831. He soon became […]readmore