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a new version of the Ku Klux Klan, targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, was founded by William Joseph Simmons.
movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the “Hollywood Ten” who had been cited for contempt of Congress the day before.
President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels, in what became known as the IranContra affair.
Elian Gonzalez, a 5-yearold Cuban boy, was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida, setting off an international custody battle.
as the war in Afghanistan entered its eighth week, CIA officer Johnny “Mike” Spann was killed during a prison uprising in Mazar-eSharif, becoming America’s first combat casualty of the conflict.
President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and appointed Tom Ridge to be its head.
attorneys for Michael Brown’s family vowed to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed the Black 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson. (The Justice Department later declined to prosecute Wilson.)
U.S. border agents fired tear gas on hundreds of migrants protesting near the border with Mexico after some of them tried to get through the fencing and wire separating the two countries.
South Korea’s defense minister, Kim Tae-young, resigned amid criticism two days after a North Korean artillery attack killed four people on a small island near the Koreas’ disputed frontier.
Vice President Joe Biden attended an urgent summit of southeast European leaders in Zagreb, Croatia, focusing on tensions and security concerns over a surge of asylum-seekers and migrants crossing the region.
A federal judge said former White House counsel Donald McGahn would have to appear before Congress to testify in the impeachment investigation. (An appeals court later undid that ruling.)