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Joe Biden listens to remarks by Finland's President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden's Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson at the White House this week.

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  • Politics

Two versions of history collide as Finland and Sweden seek to join NATO

Finland and Sweden have long kept a careful balance — and neutral position — between the West and Russia. But that changed after Moscow invaded Ukraine.

May 20, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng,
  • Miguel Macias,
  • and 1 more
Dunbar Creek

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  • History

Remembering Igbo Landing: The story of rebellion on Georgia's shores

Before St. Simons Island became a quaint beach town, it was a major port of entry for enslaved Africans. In 1803, some of the enslaved rebelled. Now, a new roadside historic marker will tell the story of that rebellion at a spot which you may have passed by without ever really seeing.

 

May 20, 2022
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By:
  • Natalie Mendenhall
A satellite image shows a natural color view of active fire lines from the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon fires, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, on May 11.

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  • Environment

New Mexico wildfire sparks backlash against controlled burns. That's bad for the West

Experts worry a devastating wildfire in New Mexico, partly started by a controlled burn that got out of control, may create a backlash against this important forest management tool.

May 20, 2022
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By:
  • Eric Westervelt
A satellite image shows a natural color view of active fire lines from the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon fires, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, on May 11.

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  • Environment

New Mexico wildfire sparks backlash against controlled burns. That's bad for the West

Experts worry a devastating wildfire in New Mexico, partly started by a controlled burn that got out of control, may create a backlash against this important forest management tool.

May 20, 2022
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By:
  • Eric Westervelt
Henry County Confederate monument

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  • Race

Georgia Supreme Court takes up right to sue over removal of Confederate monuments

Legislation the General Assembly passed in 2019 authorized “any person, group or legal entity” to challenge any acts in violation of the law, which prohibited the desecration or removal of historic monuments from public property.

May 19, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
A portrait of American statesman, writer and scientist Benjamin Franklin, circa 1750.

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  • History

Benjamin Franklin gave instructions on at-home abortions in a book in the 1700s

Abortion rights continue to be the subject of fierce debate in the United States. But for one of America's founding fathers, they were as basic as mathematics and writing.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng and
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Sarah Suggs

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  • History

Georgia Southern research project seeks to fill in the gaps of African American maritime history

African American maritime history has long gone understudied, says a Georgia Southern history professor. A new research project is meant to help change that.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Argentine soldiers landing from a Sea King helicopter not far from Port Stanley, the capitol of the Falkland Islands (las Islas Malvinas).

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  • History

40 years ago, the Falkland-Malvinas War transformed Latin rock

When English-language music was banned in 1982, Spanish-language groups found an opportunity.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Fi O'Reilly
Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read participates in a debate with former state House Speaker Tina Kotek on March 18 in Portland, Ore. They are two of the top candidates for the Democratic Party's nomination in the Oregon governor's race.

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  • National

In Oregon, the fight for governor is about winning over disaffected voters

The Republicans, an independent and a self-proclaimed "outsider" are among the candidates hoping to win over Oregon voters who say they're pessimistic about the future of the state.

May 17, 2022
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By:
  • Dirk VanderHart
In Atlanta, demonstrators rally in support of women's reproductive rights at the Georgia state Capitol on October 2, 2021.

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  • Law

Attorneys general and prosecutors scramble to figure out what comes next if Roe falls

Considering that the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade, there are a lot of questions about how — and whether — states and jurisdictions would enforce strict abortion laws.

May 16, 2022
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
GPB News NPR

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  • National

A WWII veteran meets the man who found and returned his long-lost bracelet

A Czech hobbyist who returned a Colorado veteran's bracelet he found at a former World War II prisoner of war camp finally got to meet the veteran, traveling halfway around the world to do so.

May 15, 2022
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By:
  • Stina Sieg
A man holds a cross during an anti-abortion rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24, 2011.

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  • Politics

The draft Roe ruling is a reminder that religion's role is older than the Republic

The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.

May 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ron Elving
A man holds a cross during an anti-abortion rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24, 2011.

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  • Politics

The draft Roe ruling is a reminder that religion's role is older than the Republic

The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.

May 14, 2022
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By:
  • Ron Elving
Native American boarding school in Arizona

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  • History

Historic report on Federal Indian Boarding Schools finds two in Georgia, 400 nationwide

For the first time in history, the Department of Interior investigated the federal Indian boarding school system across the United States, identifying more than 400 schools and over 50 burial sites. Georgia was home to two of those schools, which were attended by indigenous children who were taken away from their families and attempted to assimilate them through education — and, often, physical punishment. 

May 13, 2022
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By:
  • Shondin Silversmith
A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby is displayed under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2021.

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  • National

U.S. report identifies burial sites linked to boarding schools for Native Americans

A federal study of Native American boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools and more than 50 associated burial sites.

May 11, 2022
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