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Two daughters desperate for answers after their father was killed on Columbus Day
Read full article: Two daughters desperate for answers after their father was killed on Columbus DayTwo San Antonio daughters are desperate for answers as a murder mystery surrounds the death of their father while he was on his way to work.
Spurs’ Popovich blasts Alamo Heights ISD over Columbus Day
Read full article: Spurs’ Popovich blasts Alamo Heights ISD over Columbus DaySpurs head coach Gregg Popovich blasted a San Antonio area school district on Friday for continuing to honor Christopher Columbus and the day that bears the Italian explorer’s name.
KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 21
Read full article: KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 21Today is Wednesday, Oct. 21, the 295th day of 2020. On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate in New York. In 1971, President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001, Washington, D.C., postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhalation anthrax as officials began testing thousands of postal employees.
Trump's Columbus Day proclamation includes stark warnings
Read full article: Trump's Columbus Day proclamation includes stark warningsWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s proclamation Friday commemorating Columbus Day veered from a typical White House holiday announcement, with stark warnings of “radical activists” seeking to tarnish the explorer’s legacy. Native American advocates have pressed states for years to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day over concerns that Christopher Columbus helped launch centuries of genocide against indigenous populations in the Americas. “Sadly, in recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus’s legacy,” Trump said in his proclamation declaring Monday Columbus Day. Trump frequently cites the commission at his campaign rallies, and he did so again in his proclamation Friday. Trump has also ordered federal agencies to end diversity training programs.