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Study: Mass Deportation Could Put 28 Million People at Risk of Family Separation

It would reduce job prospects for native-born workers, too.

Reason

‘No antidote for bad polls’: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting

In response to national pollsters’ failure in forecasting election outcomes in 1948 and 1952, The New York Times pursued in 1956 a weekslong, multistate exercise in on-the-ground reporting to assess public opinion about the presidential race.

The Conversation

All the presidents Jimmy Carter’s life has overlapped with as he turns 100

The first president Jimmy Carter was alive for, William Taft, signed New Mexico into Statehood in 1912

The Independent UK

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US Presidents who died of heart attack and stroke

The threat of heart attack and other related conditions continues to grow. This is reflected in the number of celebrities, and the who's who from different walks of life losing their lives due to cardiac deaths. There is a long list of US presidents who have suffered cardiac events and…

The Times of India

U.S. convention season is done — but here’s why the marquee political events, past and present, are critical

Given the days of political pageantry at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago have come to an end, it’s an opportune time to examine parallels to past conventions — particularly those in the Windy City, a locale that has long been the grounds for historic political coronations.

The Conversation

President Biden's Speech Echoes Historical Farewell Addresses

President Biden's speech on threats to democracy draws comparisons to past presidents' farewell speeches, emphasizing safeguarding his administration's leg...

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Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to formally select a new nominee for their party. This will mark the first time in over 50…

The Conversation

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One memorable speech can turn around a faltering campaign − how Nixon did it with his ‘Checkers’ talk

Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund to cover expenses, and doubts about the propriety of his conduct intensified as the 1952 presidential election campaign unfolded.

The Conversation

Spare a thought for weather watcher Maureen Sweeney who made the right call for D-Day

The generals, paratroopers, pilots infantrymen all played their role for the D-Day invasion

The Independent UK

Ten classic films about D-day, recommended by a war historian

The allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, commonly known as D-day, was an enormously significant moment in the history of the second world war.

The Conversation

How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy

On D-Day, The Associated Press had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English departure ports and airfields covering the Allied assault in Normandy

The Independent UK

Soviet media downplayed the significance of the D-Day invasion

When Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to participate in the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in France in 2019, he claimed it was “not a problem” because the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, “was not a game changer.”

The Conversation

Mike Johnson and the troubled history of recent Republican speakers

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.

WEKU

38 pictures from the extraordinary life of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth’s life in pictures, from her magnificent Westminster wedding to her milestone Platinum Jubilee and plenty of heartfelt family moments

Woman & Home

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The Five Biggest Recent Changes To Augusta National For The Masters

Augusta National has regularly made changes for The Masters to keep up with the times, here's the five biggest ones of recent years

Woman & Home

A look back at Queen Elizabeth II's best royal tour moments

The late Queen went on countless tours in her lifetime; we look back on some of the most significant ones

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Exploring The Transition: Military Leaders To Statesmen

Explore the lives of 10 military leaders who made a significant impact as statesmen in history.

Woman & Home

32 of the best royal tour moments, from Kate's show-stopping outfits to Queen Elizabeth's poignant first Commonwealth visit

A look at some of the most memorable royal tour moments in history.

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Today in Supreme Court History: January 20, 1953

1/20/1953: President Eisenhower takes the inaugural oath on January 20. He would make five appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Justices John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.

The Independent UK

Trump accelerates his anti-immigrant agenda

The frontrunner for the GOP nomination is plotting a draconian expansion of his first-term immigration plan

The Conversation

Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech on nuclear dangers has important lessons even after 70 years

Seventy years ago, on December 8 1953, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a speech to the United Nations general assembly, setting out his concerns about “atomic warfare”.

Foreign Policy

Biden and Xi Try the Personal Touch

Does face-to-face diplomacy ever change anything?

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Fellow Travelers’ resonates as a sweeping love story full of joy and pain

Playing two men in 1950s politics with an attraction society wouldn’t allow, Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey are heartbreakingly good in Showtime limited series.

The Conversation

A solution to America's K-12 STEM teacher shortage: Endowed chairs

Ever since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit on Oct. 4, 1957, America has been struggling to recruit and retain STEM teachers in its public middle and high schools.

The Conversation

Kamala Harris has tied the record for the most tie-breaking votes in Senate history – a brief overview of what vice presidents do

On Jan. 20, 2021, Kamala Harris became the first African American, the first person of South Asian descent and the first woman to serve as vice president of the United States.

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