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  1. 26 minutes ago

    Officials hailed the bravery of a retired officer who worked as a security guard at the Buffalo supermarket where a gunman killed ten people, saying his actions likely saved the lives of others.

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    Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month.

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    At least one person is dead and four people critically wounded after a shooting inside a church in Orange County, California, on Sunday, police said.

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    Top diplomats from NATO met in Berlin with the alliance's chief and declared that the war "is not going as Moscow had planned."

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    “I want the story of slavery told. It’s important.” Fred Miller is dedicated to preserving the history of Sharswood, telling Lesley Stahl, “This place will be open to anyone who wants to learn.”

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    “We all live in the same area… and we would not know that our ancestors were right there beside us the entire time.” After discovering their ancestors were enslaved at Sharswood, the Miller family found the unmarked cemetery where they were likely buried.

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    “It’s God’s work,” Fred Miller tells Lesley Stahl about learning that his ancestors had been enslaved on the plantation he’d bought in Virginia. His aunt Brenda says, “It's like a full circle, like it was meant to happen.”

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    “They make me whole, even if I don’t know them. I felt a connection to them at Sharswood,” says Sonya Womack-Miranda about her family now owning property where her ancestors had been enslaved.

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    “This is absolute definitive proof… That her ancestors…were enslaved at Sharswood.” Genealogist Karice Luck-Brimmer found the proof Karen Dixon-Rexroth was looking for to show that her ancestors had been enslaved on the property her brother now owns.

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    During the Miller family’s research into Sharswood, they found documents that mentioned that the original owners of the house also had the last name Miller. Fred Miller and his family didn’t make the possible connection right away.

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    At Sharswood, historic preservationists were interested in a dilapidated building behind the main house they suspected had once been slave quarters. Fred Miller, who owns both houses, says, “It’s kind of crazy for me just to even walk around out there.”

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    “[Slavery] was something that every Black person knew you didn’t talk about. Your parents [would] tell you not to discuss grown people business,” Virginia resident Dexter Miller tells 60 Minutes.

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    Miller family cousins researching their ancestry have traced their family’s history back to one woman: Sarah Miller. Her great granddaughter, Marian Keyes, tells 60 Minutes no one in the Miller family spoke about slavery.

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    After her brother purchased the Virginia property, Karen Dixon-Rexroth became obsessed with the house. She learned that in the 1800s, the house, named Sharswood, had been the seat of a major 1,300-acre plantation.

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    When Karen Dixon-Rexroth saw the neighborhood “scary house” was for sale, she immediately called her brother Fred Miller, urging him to make an offer. After putting in a bid he was sure would be denied, he got the house—unaware of the property’s history

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    “You can't just let that fear overtake you,” says Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins about investigating Russia. “If you're in a position to do something, if you have information, if you have the motivation and you have the strength to do it, you should do it.”

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    Milk banks across the country are collecting donated breast milk from lactating women and distributing it to babies struggling amid a national shortage of baby formula that experts are calling a "crisis."

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    “We know that our database…will be used in…something like a Nuremberg trial,” Bellingcat executive director Christo Grozev tells Scott Pelley. He says his team has been approached by the ICC for material related to Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

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    “We're headed into an entirely new era of human rights investigations and war crimes investigations,” says Berkeley professor Alexa Koenig, who heads a human rights center that uses Bellingcat’s investigation methods to expose atrocities.

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    Every time the Kremlin made it harder for Bellingcat to collect information, the group found new ways to get the information they needed to keep working to expose Russian misdeeds.

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