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Five of six college students made their first appearance in court Thursday, facing charges after they allegedly lured a man to their Massachusetts college as part of a To Catch a Predator-style trend on social media. The students, all adult teenagers attending Assumption University in Worcester, Mass., were arraigned on conspiracy and kidnapping charges. Automatic […]
On December 18, 1860, John J. Crittenden of Kentucky introduced a compromise plan to the U.S. Senate. Just two days later, South Carolina would become the first state to secede from the Union, and within six weeks, six more Southern states would follow suit. But while Dixie fire-eaters were driving their states pell-mell toward disunion, […]