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🇺🇸 After Trump, the US needs a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
[USA]
Without a complete record of the Trump years, history will be written by those empowered by Trump.
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🇺🇸 Here Are the Five Biggest Snowstorms in New York City Since 1869
[USA]
This week’s storm, which is expected to bring 12 to 20 inches of snow to the city, has prompted the first blizzard warning issued for the city since 2017.
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🇺🇸 In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad
[USA]
A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum had long been a mystery. Then researchers learned that the home’s original builder was an abolitionist.
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🇺🇸 2/15: Sunday Morning
[USA]
Hosted by Jane Pauley. Featured: Gisèle Pelicot discusses her mass rape trial; singer Paul Anka; sports commentator Stephen A. Smith; actor Jacob Elordi; Washington's Crossing of the Delaware; and Fet...
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🇬🇧 The Monocle review – sultry celebration of Paris’s secret Sapphic society
[United Kingdom]
<p><strong>The Corn Exchange, Newbury<br></strong>There are quirky, characterful dances, bodies melting together and understated charisma in this story of a famed 1920s lesbian club</p><p>Le Monocle w...
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🇺🇸 Rules of mysterious ancient board game decoded by AI, scientists say
[USA]
The aim of the "deceptively simple but thrilling strategy game" was to hunt and trap the opponent's pieces in as few moves as possible, scientists said.
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🇺🇸 Iran Commemorates Revolution, With U.S. Warships Lurking Off the Coast
[USA]
The authoritarian clerical regime in Tehran came to power in 1979. Today, it presides over a country that is deeply polarized and under threat of an American attack.
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🇬🇧 Boom time for anti-racist TV: how an £84 bottle of wine triggered an explosion in British broadcasting
[United Kingdom]
<p>In the 1980s, spearheaded by Channel 4, British TV stopped telling Black and Asian people how to assimilate and gave them a voice. A golden age of dissent, activism and culture ensued – but have we...
Related: #Media, #Social Justice -
🇺🇸 Letters found in home show messages between WWII soldier, future wife
[USA]
The letters by William Raymond Whittaker and Jane Dean were found in a Nashville home that had belonged to Jane and her siblings.
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🇺🇸 When It’s Finally Cold Enough to Race Ice Yachts
[USA]
On the Navesink River, a long and frigid winter has allowed a 135-year-old rivalry to be renewed.
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🇬🇧 Stay Alive: Berlin 1939-45 by Ian Buruma – how Berliners defied their Nazi masters
[United Kingdom]
<p>An immersive account of how the inhabitants of a liberal city – including the author’s father – survived fascism</p><p>In December 1941, the Nazi authorities received a letter from a soldier c...
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🇬🇧 TV tonight: a journalist’s deep dive into the mind of a serial killer
[United Kingdom]
<p>Sky Crime’s documentary looks back at a shocking 1970s crime spree. Plus: Dawn French and Mark Heap wrap up their secretive sitcom. Here’s what to watch tonight</p><p><strong>9pm, Sky Crime</strong...
Related: #True Crime, #Journalism -
🇺🇸 Topps Baseball Reveals Top 10 Cards of All Time on 'First Things First'
[USA]
Topps Baseball Series 1 is being released to honor 75 years of the brand. The top-10 cards were revealed on "First Things First."
Related: #Sports Collecting, #Anniversary -
🇺🇸 Lost Soviet Luna 9 Moon Lander May Have Been Found
[USA]
Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar surface. “One of them is wrong,” an expert said.
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🇺🇸 Ben Ogden becomes 1st U.S. man in 50 years to medal in cross-country
[USA]
Ben Ogden of Team USA won the silver medal in the cross-country sprint Tuesday at the Winter Olympics in Italy.
Related: #Sports, #Olympics -
🇬🇧 Brutalist Southbank Centre granted listed status
[United Kingdom]
The complex was voted "Britain's ugliest building" when it first opened in October 1967.
Related: #Architecture, #Culture -
🇬🇧 The Great Resistance by Carrie Gibson review – a panoramic account of the fight to end slavery
[United Kingdom]
<p>An ambitious chronicle of the fight for freedom by enslaved Africans spans four centuries of escapes and uprisings in the Americas </p><p>‘I am painting a historical landscape,” writes Carrie Gibso...
Related: #Human Rights, #Resistance -
🇬🇧 British Museum to keep pendant linked to Henry VIII
[United Kingdom]
The museum says it has reached a fundraising goal so it can permanently display the artefact.
Related: #Heritage, #Archaeology -
🇺🇸 U.S. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to Be Beatified, One Step Away From Sainthood
[USA]
The move involving Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, who hosted a popular midcentury radio and TV show and died in 1979, ends a six-year delay.
Related: #Religion, #Media -
🇬🇧 The Last Picture review – talking dog leads a journey from horror to hope
[United Kingdom]
<p><strong>York Theatre Royal<br></strong>In Catherine Dyson’s absorbing play, the audience become a class of year 9 pupils visiting a Holocaust exhibition with an emotional support animal</p><p>Can w...
Related: #Theatre, #Holocaust Education -
🇺🇸 Shipwreck timbers from 17th Century appear on beach in Dorset
[USA]
Experts believe timbers found at Studland Beach form a missing piece of the Swash Channel wreck from 1631.
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🇺🇸 1/19: The Takeout: Author and historian H.W. Brands
[USA]
Author and historian H.W. Brands joins "The Takeout" to talk about the spread of propaganda during World War II to gain support for American intervention, the anti-intervention movement led by Charles...
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🇺🇸 3/31: The Takeout: Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger
[USA]
For this edition of "The Takeout," Major Garrett speaks to filmmaker Brian Knappenberger about directing the nine-part documentary series, "Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War." The Netflix serie...
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🇺🇸 6/16: The Takeout: Steve Coll
[USA]
Author and journalist Steve Coll talks about the complicated relationship between the U.S. government and Saddam Hussein, and how events in 1979 shaped future events like the Sept. 11 attacks and the ...
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🇺🇸 "CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca on "The Takeout" — 9/4/2020
[USA]
On this week's episode of "The Takeout with Major Garrett," "CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca joins Major to talk about life at home during the pandemic, his "Mobituaries" book and podcast a...
Related: #Journalism, #Media -
🇺🇸 Almanac: February 8
[USA]
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
Related: #Culture, #Anniversary -
🇺🇸 A Movie About America Broke My Heart
[USA]
I am not a Shaker. That didn’t stop me from tearing up at “The Testament of Ann Lee.”
Related: #Cinema, #Religion -
🇺🇸 How many Super Bowls have the Seahawks won?
[USA]
As the Seahawks prepare to face the Patriots in the 2026 Super Bowl, here's what to know about Seattle's past appearances, wins and losses.
Related: #Sports, #NFL -
🇺🇸 MAGA’s Split Over Israel Extends to a Ship Attacked 58 Years Ago
[USA]
The Israeli military killed 34 people on the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967. Whether it was an accident, as many historians believe, has become a litmus test within President Trump’s movement.
Related: #Politics, #Foreign Policy -
🇺🇸 All about "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the Black national anthem
[USA]
As the 2026 Super Bowl begins, Coco Jones will take the field to sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing," widely known as the Black national anthem. Here's what to know about the song.
Related: #Culture, #Sports