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Trumpism With Chinese Characteristics
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoAdolf Hitler once boasted that the strength of totalitarian systems is that they force their enemies to imitate them. And he was not entirely wrong about...
Today In History: June 15, More than 1,000 killed in New York steamboat disaster
The News-Times· 1 day agoToday is Saturday, June 15, the 167th day of 2024. On June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 people died when fire erupted aboard the steamboat General Slocum in New York’s East River. In 1215, England ...
As Fort Worth redevelops its oldest public housing complex, residents look back fondly
Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt is wedged on 42 acres on the east edge of downtown. It was one of 52 Works Progress...
80 years after D-Day, a dedicated team works to bring missing airmen home
ABC57 South Bend· 2 days agoMinutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. Eighty years after ...
'Star Trek' actor George Takei is determined to keep telling his Japanese American story
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoTakei, 87, has a new picture book out for children ages 6 to 9 and their parents, called “My Lost...
For one day only, runners and cyclists can take over new stretch of Triangle Expressway
The News & Observer· 10 hours agoAn 18-mile stretch of N.C. 540, also known as the Triangle Expressway, is set to open this summer. The event is a natural culmination of efforts by the Turnpike Authority to keep people informed ...
'Star Trek' actor George Takei is determined to keep telling his Japanese American story
Detroit News· 23 hours agoThe incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World...
Today in History: June 13, Johnson nominates Marshall to become first Black Supreme Court justice
Houston Chronicle· 1 day agoToday is Thursday, June 13, the 165th day of 2024. There are 201 days left in the year. On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become ...
‘Star Trek’ actor George Takei determined to keep telling his Japanese American story
Arizona Daily Star· 2 days agoThe incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans, including children, labeled enemies during World...
D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out | Ed Vulliamy
New York Review of Books· 5 days agoAt lunchtime in the small Normandy town of Évrecy, men gather in the tabac-café-bar to wager on the next harness race through the PMU betting network. Up...
