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🇺🇸 Trump proposes painting executive office building white — 10/04/2026 [USA]
The building sits across a driveway from the West Wing and was completed in 1888.
Related: #Politics, #Architecture
🇺🇸 Fatih Akin Made a Nazi-Era Coming-of-Age Film as a Favor — Then It Became an $8 Million Hit — 08/04/2026 [USA]
Akin honored his old friend and mentor, the German New Wave veteran Hark Bohm, to deliver Bohm's story on film before he died in 2025.
Related: #Cinema, #Legacy
🇺🇸 As D.C.'s cherry blossom trees near peak bloom, here's a guide to their history — 23/03/2026 [USA]
The renowned trees along Washington, D.C's Tidal Basin were sent as a gift from Japan in 1912. Some of the original trees are still there.
Related: #Tourism
🇬🇧 Breaking the Cycle review – meet the charismatic Thai politician striving to change his country’s history — 23/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Gripping documentary examines the Future Forward Party’s unprecedented 2019 election result, and its leader’s aim to break Thailand’s repeated military coupsWith his disarming good looks, <a...
Related: #Thai Politics, #Documentary
🇺🇸 Book excerpt: "When Caesar Was King" by David Margolick — 22/03/2026 [USA]
David Margolick's biography of Sid Caesar explores how the 1950s comic reinvented the art of comedy in the new medium of television.
Related: #Biography
🇺🇸 Almanac: March 22 — 22/03/2026 [USA]
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
Related: #Almanac
🇺🇸 Prayer, providence and the nation's 250th: GOP leaders make the case that faith built America — 19/03/2026 [USA]
As the country celebrates the 250th anniversary of its independence, House Speaker Mike Johnson said it should be a reminder of the central role religious faith played for the founders.
Related: #Religion, #Politics
🇬🇧 Habermas and the lessons of history | Brief letters — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Political repetition | Lakes v loughs | Weighty fruit | First fibs One thing missing from most of the commentaries following the death of Jürgen Habermas (<a href="https://www.theguardian.co...
Related: #Philosophy
🇺🇸 Trump ribs Japanese prime minister on Pearl Harbor in Oval Office talk on Iran — 19/03/2026 [USA]
President Trump ribbed the nation of Japan over its World War II bombing of Pearl Harbor in a Thursday Oval Office meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. Taking questions from reporters,...
Related: #Diplomacy
🇺🇸 Trump’s Plans for America’s 250th Emphasize Religion’s Role in the Nation’s Founding — 18/03/2026 [USA]
A closed-door White House event included news about the National Garden of American Heroes and an emphasis on the role of religion in the founding.
Related: #Politics, #Religion
🇺🇸 Ilia II, patriarch who led Georgian Church out of the Soviet Union, dies at 93 — 18/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Religion
🇺🇸 Almanac: March 15 — 15/03/2026 [USA]
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
Related: #Observances
🇺🇸 Arsenal beat Everton as Dowman makes Premier League history — 14/03/2026 [USA]
Arsenal beat Everton 2-0 in a nervy match in the Premier League as they continue their pursuit of the title.
Related: #Sports
🇬🇧 Who invented toilets and who was first to go around the world? The kids’ quiz — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes<ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/...
Related: #Education
🇬🇧 Victorian homes for sale in England – in pictures — 13/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
From a grand country house built by a merchant seaman to a rustic railway worker’s cottage within historic city walls <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/gallery/2026/mar/13/victorian-ho...
Related: #Real Estate, #Architecture
🇬🇧 Rare items of Charles Dickens’ clothing to go on display in London — 09/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Exhibition includes linen shirt collar from when author suffered a fatal stroke along with other personal itemsRare surviving items of Charles Dickens’ clothing, including the linen shirt co...
Related: #Literature, #Exhibition
🇺🇸 History Makers — 08/03/2026 [USA]
On this International Women’s Day, we’re writing about a project to unearth stories of remarkable women.
Related: #Influence
🇬🇧 António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose<ul><li><a href="https://ww...
Related: #Literature
🇬🇧 António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83 — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]
Author of more than 30 novels, including Fado Alexandrino and The Inquisitors’ Manual, was widely seen as one of the most important voices in modern Portuguese literatureAntónio Lobo Antunes...
Related: #Literature, #Death
🇺🇸 Bernard LaFayette, Freedom Rider and Selma voting rights organizer, dies at 85 — 06/03/2026 [USA]
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
Related: #Civil Rights, #Activism
🇺🇸 After Trump, the US needs a Truth and Reconciliation Commission — 23/02/2026 [USA]
Without a complete record of the Trump years, history will be written by those empowered by Trump.
Related: #Politics, #Democracy, #Accountability
🇺🇸 Here Are the Five Biggest Snowstorms in New York City Since 1869 — 22/02/2026 [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.
Related: #Weather, #New York City, #Climate
🇺🇸 In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad — 15/02/2026 [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.
Related: #Abolitionism, #Underground Railroad
🇺🇸 2/15: Sunday Morning — 15/02/2026 [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...
Related: #Journalism, #Entertainment, #Food Culture
🇬🇧 The Monocle review – sultry celebration of Paris’s secret Sapphic society — 12/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
The Corn Exchange, Newbury There are quirky, characterful dances, bodies melting together and understated charisma in this story of a famed 1920s lesbian clubLe Monocle w...
Related: #Culture, #LGBTQ+
🇺🇸 Rules of mysterious ancient board game decoded by AI, scientists say — 11/02/2026 [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.
Related: #Archaeology, #Artificial Intelligence
🇺🇸 Iran Commemorates Revolution, With U.S. Warships Lurking Off the Coast — 11/02/2026 [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.
Related: #Geopolitics, #International Relations
🇬🇧 Boom time for anti-racist TV: how an £84 bottle of wine triggered an explosion in British broadcasting — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]
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 — 11/02/2026 [USA]
The letters by William Raymond Whittaker and Jane Dean were found in a Nashville home that had belonged to Jane and her siblings.
Related: #Military, #Relationships
🇺🇸 When It’s Finally Cold Enough to Race Ice Yachts — 11/02/2026 [USA]
On the Navesink River, a long and frigid winter has allowed a 135-year-old rivalry to be renewed.
Related: #Sports, #Environment