As city leaders urged Chicagoans to prepare for the coronavirus variant, the first Omicron case was detected in the state. The case was identified in a Chicago resident who came in contact with a person who had traveled to the city; that person tested positive for the variant in another state. The Chicagoan was fully […]
Josephine Baker, a U.S.-born entertainer, civil rights activist, and anti-Nazi spy, became the first Black woman to receive Paris’ highest honor when inducted into France’s Panthéon. She joins other French luminaries like scientist Marie Curie, philosopher Voltaire, and Victor Hugo. Her voice echoed through the streets of Paris’ famed Left Bank, as an elaborate ceremony […]
Citizens of Peru, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador awoke around 5:52 a.m. local time to a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. The quake’s epicenter was reported in the Amazonas region, however, it was felt all the way in the capital of Lima and neighboring towns. The focal point of the event occurred roughly 25 miles northwest of Barranca […]
