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Johnson County, Iowa, voted to change its eponym from Richard Mentor Johnson, a lifelong slaveholder, to Lulu Merle Johnson, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Iowa.

The Department of Justice is suing to block a proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster

The lunar event was the longest partial lunar eclipse in 580 years. Almost the entire moon — 99.1% — was cast under the earth's shadow.

She will oversee the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., as well as the George Gustav Heye Center in Lower Manhattan and the Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Md.

John Bellezza has spent decades searching for evidence of lost civilizations high in the Tibetan Plateau. Once the plateau was wet and warm, and whole cities thrived in the plains.

The series was recognized for unapologetically challenging narratives we accept in the U.S.

Last week, Arthur Winston reached two milestones. He turned 100 years old. And he retired from the job he held for more than 70 years. Winston had been maintaining buses at the L.A. Metropolitan Transit Authority. Asked why he stuck with the work, Winston's answer starts simply: "Well, I like my job."

Kotek won her state's Democratic primary on Tuesday. If she wins the general election later this year, she will become the country's first openly lesbian governor.

The quartet has a passion for crafting pop hooks matched with complex, intimate lyrics — a creative formula that extends to their style, attitude and even the name of the band, named for a minor royal whose assassination sparked global change.

Our summer reading series continues with Jamez Terry and Kelly Costello. Last December, they founded the Denver Zine Library, a collection of almost 5,000 independently produced mini-magazines, or "zines."