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December 10, 2024
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Heather Cox Richardson
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11:22
December 10, 2024
Today is Human Rights Day, celebrated internationally in honor of the day seventy-six years ago, December 10, 1948, when the United Nations General…
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December 9, 2024
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Heather Cox Richardson
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11:58
December 9, 2024
The sudden collapse of the Assad regime in Syria yesterday took oxygen away from the airing of President-elect Trump’s interview with Kristen Welker of…
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December 8, 2024
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Garamond
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8:59
December 8, 2024
Late last night, the White House said in a statement that “President Biden and his team are closely monitoring the extraordinary events in Syria and…
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December 7, 2024
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Heather Cox Richardson
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12:14
December 7, 2024
On Thursday, December 5, in Chicago, Illinois, former president Barack Obama gave the third in an annual series of lectures he has delivered since 2022…
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December 6, 2024
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Heather Cox Richardson
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8:01
December 6, 2024
On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the USS West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor…
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December 5, 2024
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Heather Cox Richardson
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10:56
December 5, 2024
Yesterday a gunman assassinated the chief executive officer of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, as he arrived at a meeting of investors in New York…
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