Members of the 18th Street gang announce a truce during a press conference at a prison in San Pedro Sula, on May 28. The gang is involved in drug trafficking that has brought terror to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Members of the Calle 18 street gang look out from their cell at the prison in San Pedro Sula. The prison houses the country's most violent criminals.
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Confiscated weapons lie on a couch after the arrest of several members of the 18th Street gang after a shootout with police and military during an anti-drug operation in San Pedro Sula, on March 27. San Pedro Sula, the country's second-largest city after the capital, Tegucigalpa, has a homicide rate of 169 per 100,000 people and was named the world's most violent city for a second year in a row.
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A man reacts as a doctor treats his wounds after he had been attacked by a gang in San Pedro Sula, on March 28.
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Relatives of Carlos Pineda, 30, cry over his dead body after he was shot in the head and spent an agonizing day at the emergency room of a public hospital in San Pedro Sula, on March 25.
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A woman cries near the body of the Justiniano Lara, 51, after he was killed by unidentified assailants in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on March 25. With 91 murders per 100,000 people, the small Central American nation is the most violent in the world, and San Pedro Sula the most violent city.
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Members of the 18th Street gang announce a truce during a press conference at a prison in San Pedro Sula on May 28.
Latin America is riddled with crime, and no place is more violent than Honduras. It has just 8 million people, but with as many as 20 people killed there every day, it now has the highest murder rate in the world.
It would be easy to blame drug trafficking. Honduras and its Central American neighbors have long served as a favored smuggling corridor for South American cocaine headed north to the U.S.
Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Louise Shepard, Betty Grissom, Trudy Cooper and Marjorie Slayton attend a luncheon held in their honor by the American Newspaper Women's Club on April 27, 1962, in Washington, D.C. Mercury Seven wife Josephine Schirra is not pictured.
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Lily Koppel writes for The New York Times and is also the author of The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal.
In the late 1950s, after the Soviet Union successfully put their satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit, American fears over the Communist threat reached a new height. The U.S. was trailing badly in a competition that would come to define the next decade – the race to space.
So on April 9, 1959, the U.S. kicked off its own space age by introducing the country to its first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven. Their story is well known, but the story of their wives is often overlooked.
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Hillary's first two followers were Bill and Chelsea. She hasn't posted much yet but her Twitter bio is getting lots of attention. Clinton describes herself as wife, mom, hair icon, glass ceiling cracker and pantsuit aficionado.
Federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, headquartered in McLean, Va., employed Edward Snowden, the computer technician at the center of the controversy over leaks involving the National Security Agency.
In recent decades, a quiet revolution has been transforming the way Washington works.
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Some churches have said they will end their affiliation with the Boy Scouts after its decision to allow openly gay members to join. Others, including Southern Baptists, are considering their next move. Another group plans to hold a meeting in Louisville later this month with parents who say they want a more Christian organization for their children.