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News Articles: civil war

Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, on Tuesday.

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  • Africa

Port Sudan was a safe haven in Sudan's civil war. Now it's being attacked

The strikes are the first on the de-facto capital along the Red Sea. About a quarter of a million refugees have fled to the state where Port Sudan resides since the civil war erupted two years ago.

May 06, 2025
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  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Bennett Parten is the author of "Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation".

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  • History

The largest emancipation event in U.S. history happened in Georgia. A new book describes how

Sherman's march to the sea did more than just burn Atlanta to the ground. It assisted in the emancipation of thousands of enslaved people.

February 11, 2025
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  • Peter Biello
The National Ranger Memorial, established in 1992, is at Fort Moore, formerly named Fort Benning. army.mil

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  • News

Judge decides lawsuit wanting Confederate’s name restored to a Fort Moore memorial

A lawsuit filed by the Columbus-based National Ranger Memorial Foundation to restore the name of a Confederate officer to the memorial and to the elite Army unit’s hall of fame at Fort Moore has been dismissed.

December 18, 2024
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  • Mark Rice
A bronze statue of abolitionist Harriet Tubman is seen at the Maryland State House, Feb. 10, 2020, in Annapolis, Md.

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  • National

Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.

November 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
President Biden presents the Medal of Honor to Theresa Chandler, the great-great-granddaughter of Pvt. George D. Wilson in the East Room at the White House in Washington, on Wednesday. The medals posthumously honor two U.S. Army privates who were part of a daring Union Army contingent that stole a Confederate train during the Civil War. U.S. Army Pvts. Philip G. Shadrach and George D. Wilson were captured by Confederates and executed by hanging. At left is Gerald Taylor, the great-great-nephew of Pvt. Phil…

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  • National

2 Union soldiers awarded Medal of Honor for Confederate train hijacking

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive in Confederate territory and drove it north while destroying railroad tracks and telegraph lines.

July 04, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
This month, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting is releasing a story called "40 Acres and a Lie," co-reported with the Center for Public Integrity and Mother Jones magazine

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  • History

Black families were promised land in Georgia. The government took it away

The promise of "40 acres and a mule" is probably the most famous attempt at reparations for slavery in the U.S., but it is mostly remembered as a broken promise.

June 21, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
Defendant Jerry Boylan, captain of the Conception, leaves federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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  • National

Captain sentenced to 4 years in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat in California

The Sept. 2, 2019, blaze was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes to maritime regulations, congressional reform and several ongoing lawsuits.

May 03, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
(L-R) Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny

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  • Politics

Is this fictitious civil war closer to reality than we think?

Civil War, the new A24 film from British director Alex Garland, imagines a scenario that might not seem so far-fetched to some; a contemporary civil war breaking out in the United States.

And while the film has taken heat for little mention of politics, the question of an actual civil war has everything to do with it.

Amy Cooter is a director of research at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Her work has led her to the question that Garland's movie has put in the minds of both moviegoers and political pundits: Could a second civil war really happen here?

Cooter joins host Andrew Limbong to discuss the actual threat of current political movements in the U.S., outside of the movie theaters.

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April 19, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Congressman Jefferson Long, left, and pioneering educator of Black children Lucy Craft Laney, right, are depicted in a mural by artist Kevin Lewis in Macon's Pleasant Hill neighborhood which both at one time called home.

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  • History

Why today's Supreme Court debate recalls prophetic words spoken by Maconite Jefferson Long in 1871

When Georgia's first African American congressman became the first Black man to speak on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, his argument presaged the Trump v. Anderson case by more than 150 years.

February 08, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, in Columbia, S.C.

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  • Politics

Nikki Haley makes surprise appearance on SNL, mocking Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has made a surprise appearance on the comedy show Saturday Night Live, making jibes at Donald Trump over his age and mental competency.

February 04, 2024
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  • Sarah McCammon and
  • Robbie Griffiths
In this file photo, Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a town hall on Dec. 18 in Nevada, Iowa.

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  • Elections

Nikki Haley didn't say slavery caused the Civil War. Now she's facing major backlash

At a campaign event in New Hampshire Wednesday, the former S.C. governor didn't mention slavery as a cause of the Civil War, sparking controversy. Now she's walking back those comments.

December 28, 2023
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  • Ashley Lopez
The removal of the Confederate Memorial in Section 16 of Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Va., is on hold after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order.

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  • National

A judge halted the removal of a Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery

A group filed suit saying that the removal of the memorial was disturbing surrounding graves. A federal judge ordered workers to stop and scheduled a hearing for Wednesday.

December 18, 2023
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  • Sarah McCammon
Jeff Seymour prepares a naval cannon for firing during the 2020 RiverBlast Festival at the National Civil War Naval Museum on July 4. Darrell Roaden Special to the Ledger-Enquirer

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  • History

Are sunken ships from Civil War still lying in the Chattahoochee? What a historian says

The Chattahoochee River has become a tourist attraction for kayaking and whitewater rafting, but some may not know the history that may lie just feet beneath their paddles.

June 06, 2023
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  • Kelby Hutchison
Dr. Bushra Sulieman (left) and Dr. Mohamed Eisa in February 2023 at a workshop in Khartoum. Sulieman was killed on April 25 in Khartoum. It's believed he was stabbed to death during a robbery attempt amid the turmoil of the conflict that has broken out in Sudan.

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  • Global Health

Two doctors struck by tragedy in Sudan: One dead, one fleeing for his life

The violence in Sudan has claimed the life of a beloved Sudanese American doctor. One of his colleague's talks about Dr. Sulieman's legacy — and the devastating toll of the fighting in Khartoum.

April 29, 2023
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  • Andrew Connelly
A small group of protesters gathers outside of a Manhattan courthouse after news broke that former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury on Thursday in New York City, with one pictured carrying a sign that says "arrest Trump." While the nature of the indictment is unprecedented, Trump isn't the first president — current or former — to face arrest.

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  • Politics

A president has faced arrest before Trump — for carriage speeding, 150 years ago

The nature of Trump's indictment is unprecedented, but the first time a president faced arrest was over 100 years ago.

March 31, 2023
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