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A diamond, a whale bone and letters: What’s inside the America 250 time capsule

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CONCORD, N.H. — Paper, the traditional gift for marking a couple’s first year of marriage, also is a great choice for 250th anniversaries — especially when filling a time capsule celebrating American independence. The 2016 law creating the nonpartisan America250 commission mandated that a time capsule be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026, and … Read more

Infamous cartel leader El Chapo pens letters from U.S. supermax prison, criticizing his

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Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has pleaded for U.S. court authorities to transfer him back to his country of birth, court filings showed Monday, as he serves out a life sentence he deemed “cruel.” Extradited in 2017 after escaping twice from Mexican prisons, Guzman is serving a life sentence at a maximum security … Read more