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Apple Store in Shanghai, China.

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  • Business

How Apple turbocharged China's development

A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security.

June 17, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
Album cover for <em>Drinking In Here</em>, a new collection of traditional drinking songs from the Lomax Archive.

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  • History

These catchy old songs aren't as think as you drunk they are

People are drinking less these days, but drinking songs never go out of style. The Lomax Archive is dropping a new album of traditional songs this week.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Soldiers watch civil rights protesters walking during the third Selma March in Alabama, on March 25, 1965. President Lyndon Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard to prevent violence against the marchers.

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  • History

What happened when Lyndon Johnson federalized the National Guard

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

June 09, 2025
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  • Bill Chappell
Savannah City Hall, as seen from Johnson Square on Bull Street.

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  • Architecture

Savannah City Hall nears completion of first major restoration in building's nearly 120-year history

City Council has been meeting at the Board of Education offices since September while workers restore City Hall's original mahogany woodwork, historic lighting fixtures, and mosaic entrance lobby.

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Then-President Joe Biden and President-elect Trump arrive for Trump's inauguration ceremony in January. Trump said Wednesday he had commissioned an investigation into his predecessor's administration.

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  • Politics

Trump orders a probe into the Biden administration and its alleged autopen use

Trump alleges the Biden administration used a machine to sign key documents, as many presidents do. Biden says he made policy decisions himself: "Any suggestion that I didn't is ridiculous and false."

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Skulls of 19 Black Americans have returned to New Orleans after more than a century in Germany, where they were sent for racial research.

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  • National

Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans

A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

May 31, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
President John Tyler, circa 1860-1865. His last surviving grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, died on Sunday.

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  • Obituaries

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of the 10th U.S. president, dies at 96

Harrison Ruffin Tyler was just three generations from the White House, since his father and grandfather both fathered children in their 70s. The chemical engineer helped preserve his family's legacy.

May 29, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Susan Brownmiller poses with her book in New York, Oct. 18, 1975.

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  • Obituaries

Susan Brownmiller, whose landmark book changed attitudes on rape, dies at 90

In 1975, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that victims were partly to blame.

May 27, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Hells Canyon, the deepest river gorge in the United States, was carved just about 2.1 million years ago — making it much younger than the Grand Canyon.

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  • Science

Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in the U.S., is surprisingly young

Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.

May 27, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The Smithsonian Institution Building on the National Mall is seen on March 28 in Washington, D.C. The organization is the target of an order from President Trump that seeks to restore "truth and sanity to American history."

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  • National

These 7 executive actions show how Trump wants to reshape American history

President Trump wants to reframe how the country's stories are told. But historians are pushing back, saying the administration's actions amount to an attack on core institutions — and on history itself.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
This historic image depicts one of the former Malaria Control in War Areas field station buildings in Newton, Georgia. (Courtesy of CDC)

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  • Health

Why is the CDC located in Atlanta and not D.C.? History tied to Coca-Cola and mosquitoes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deep roots in Atlanta and plays an important role in making the city a public health center. 

May 20, 2025
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  • Rebecca Grapevine and
  • Healthbeat
Painted portrait of Wong Kim Ark in the Asian American Community Heroes Mural, located in San Francisco's Chinatown.

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  • History

Who's eligible for birthright citizenship in America? Find out in this history quiz

Who was Wong Kim Ark and what is the story behind the Supreme Court case United States vs. Wong Kim Ark? Find out here, and listen to a full episode to learn more.

May 15, 2025
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  • Anya Steinberg and
  • Shajia Abidi
A visitor takes a photo at the Museum of Survivors, located in a factory where Oskar Schindler saved some 1200 Jews during WWII, in Brnenec, Czech Republic, on May 10.

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  • Europe

Museum opens in Czech Republic at site where Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews

The former textile factory in the town of Brněnec was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owners in 1938 and turned into a concentration camp. This weekend it welcomed the first visitors to the Museum of Survivors.

May 12, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
The U.S.-Canada border, as seen in this satellite map, mostly runs along the 49th parallel — and wasn't chosen at random.

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  • Politics

Trump calls the U.S.-Canada border an 'artificial line.' That's not entirely true

President Trump has repeatedly described the U.S.-Canada border as an "artificially drawn line." But experts say just because it was man-made doesn't mean it's not legitimate.

May 09, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Harry Miller, a veteran of the Army and Air Force, is pictured in the library of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C.

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  • History

One WWII veteran shares his story on the 80th anniversary of VE Day

Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that American troops went to sleep or shook hands. "And some just couldn't believe it."

May 08, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
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