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Nov 11 2019
News
On Veterans Day, 8 unforgettable photos of Americans returning from war
There’s pride, joy and relief in their faces.
In 1962, an aging Gen. Douglas MacArthur delivered a final speech to the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He was nearing the end of his of life, and he knew it.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace,” he said, “for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
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Washington Post
Nov 07 2020
News
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Trump aide test positive for Covid-19
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows tested positive for Covid-19, a source familiar with the diagnosis told NBC News on Friday.
The news, first reported by Bloomberg, comes as the U.S. recorded the third straight day of more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases, breaking previous records.
It also comes as President Donald Trump and some of his allies are mounting election-
NBC News (Online)
Aug 27 2020
Headline Roundup
Hurricane Laura Brings Tornado Threat after Louisiana Landfall
Hurricane Laura battered southeastern Louisiana with heavy rains and winds Thursday morning.
The hurricane has since weakened to a Category 2 storm, but it is expected to spread further damage as it moves north.
New York Times (News)
Reuters 
The Blaze 
Nov 12 2014
News
Repeat after me: It’s about Obamacare and workers, not jobs
Thom Tillis is a newly-minted senator from North Carolina, having narrowly defeated the incumbent, Sen. Kay Hagan (D). But in one of his first interviews since the campaign ended, he hauled out a stale talking point that has long been debunked.
Washington Post
Aug 31 2015
News
Obama’s Arctic Trip Comes as Climate Change Builds as 2016 Issue
President Barack Obama’s trip to Alaska’s Arctic on Monday likely will reverberate much farther south, on the 2016 presidential campaign trail, where global warming is expected to emerge as a key issue.
His visit to the North Pole region, the first ever for a sitting president, coincides with a growing public consensus that the earth is heat
Wall Street Journal (News)
May 30 2020
News
Nursing Homes Fought Federal Emergency Plan Requirements for Years. Now, They’re Coronavirus Hot Spots.
On Dec. 15, 2016, the nation’s largest nursing home lobby wrote a letter to Donald Trump, congratulating the president-elect and urging him to roll back new regulations on the long-term care industry.
One item on the wish list was a recently issued emergency preparedness rule. It required nursing homes to draw up plans for hazards such as an outbreak of a new infectious disease.
ProPublica
Feb 18 2020
Opinion
A Bid to Revise the New York Times’s Bad History
“I think the important point to make about slavery is that it had existed for thousands of years without substantial criticism,” said the historian Gordon Wood in an interview last year. “But it’s the American Revolution that makes it a problem for the world. And the first real anti-slave movement takes place in North America. So this is what’s missed by these essays in the 1619 Project.”
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Dec 13 2019
News
General Election 2019: What's behind the Conservative victory?
Boris Johnson has won a decisive majority, on the back of a big swing from Labour to the Conservatives in Leave-voting Britain.
Yet north of the border the SNP dramatically almost swept the board.
With all results now declared, the prime minister has won a majority of 80 seats - the biggest Tory majority since 1987.
Meanwhile, at 44%, the party's share of the vote is set
BBC News
Jul 08 2020
Analysis
Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History
In recent weeks President Trump has railed against tearing down statues across the country — and has been particularly dogged in his defense of Confederate monuments. But his argument that they are benign symbols of America’s past is misleading. An overwhelming majority of Confederate memorials weren’t erected in the years directly following the Civil War. Instead, most were put up decades
538 (ABC News)