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Peach and Blossom, the 2024 National Thanksgiving Turkeys, prior to receiving a pardon from President Biden, not pictured, on the South Lawn of the White House on Nov. 25. The National Thanksgiving Turkeys were raised in Minnesota.

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  • Politics

Biden pardons turkeys Peach and Blossom, another chapter in a strange tradition

The history of the presidential turkey pardon is often misremembered. Here are the fowl facts.

November 25, 2024
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  • Domenico Montanaro
Guerrillas from the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) speak with residents of San Agustín, Usulután department, on July 5, 1983.

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  • Perspective

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

November 24, 2024
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  • Robert Nickelsberg
Illustration depicting Chinese laborers clearing snow on the Pacific Railroad in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Dated 19th century.

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  • National

America's first major immigration crackdown and the making and breaking of the West

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history.

November 19, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., speaks after being elected Senate Majority Leader for the 119th Congress following the Senate Republican leadership elections on Nov. 13.

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  • Politics

Trump picks loyalists for top jobs, testing loyalty of Senate GOP

Nominees for several key Cabinet posts in the new administration of President-elect Trump caught officials in Washington off guard and ignited a firestorm of criticism — not all of it from Democrats.

November 17, 2024
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  • Ron Elving
From left: Michelle Salaün, Jeannine Plassard and Marie-Annick Gouez, the daughters of Catherine Tournellec Salaün, stand at their mother's grave in Plabennec, in France's Brittany region, in June.

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  • Europe

In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies' legacy of rape and murder

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: a murder and sexual assault so traumatic they are only now coming to terms with it.

November 16, 2024
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
President-elect Trump announced former acting ICE director Tom Homan (left) as his incoming border czar, joining a long list of presidents who have appointed czars to oversee specific issues — like Obama's "car czar" Steven Rattner (right).

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  • Politics

One thing Trump and Obama have in common: a fondness for 'czars'

Trump is the latest president to appoint a czar to deal with a particular issue — in this case, the border. But what does that mean? A look at the controversial history of government czars.

November 15, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
People's Liberation Army soldiers stand guard in Tiananmen Square at the end of the flag-raising ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in Beijing, on Oct. 1.

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  • Perspective

At Tiananmen Square, tight security with metal detectors reflects a changing China

There's a police check to exit the subway, another to get in line, a third while standing in line, and metal detectors and X-ray machines before you finally reach the Beijing landmark.

November 15, 2024
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  • John Ruwitch
The USS Edsall is pictured in San Diego Harbor, Calif., 1920s. The ship was lost during World War II but was located by Australia's navy last year.

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  • History

The USS Edsall, sunk by Japanese forces in World War II, has been found

The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said. It was found in deep waters south of Australia's Christmas Island.

November 13, 2024
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  • James Doubek
Former President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at the Santander Arena in Reading, Pa.

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  • Elections

The story of White House 'trophy terms' offers a cautionary tale

The lessons of history about second-term presidents and second-term Republicans in particular are not just the stuff of textbooks. They can offer guidance and perhaps even temper expectations.

November 10, 2024
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  • Ron Elving
Jewelry found in the ruins of a house in Pompeii are displayed, backdropped by the casts of two adults and two children who died together, are seen housed at the British Museum in London in 2013.

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  • Research News

New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

November 09, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris arrive for an event celebrating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House in 2022.

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  • Elections

Vice presidents often run for president. Making it there has been a leap

While the office of vice president is the second-highest position in the government, making it to the Oval Office has historically been a leap.

November 05, 2024
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  • Jeongyoon Han
This cartoon illustrates the campaign of 1888 when Republican Benjamin Harrison and Democrat Grover Cleveland were the candidates.

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  • Politics

Trump is hoping to win non-consecutive terms. Only one president has done it

If reelected, Trump would only be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s. Here's a look at how that happened — and who else has tried.

November 04, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Fans interfere with Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers as he attempts to catch a fly ball in foul territory during Game Four of the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday.

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  • Sports

Handsy fans disrupted a World Series game. Here are 5 notable MLB interference cases

Two Yankees fans were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series for trying to pry a ball out of a Dodgers player’s glove. It's a particularly brazen instance of fan interference, but far from the first.

October 31, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Overlapping V's, or Marian marks, were among the designs meant to ward off evil that were found carved into the walls at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire, England.

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  • Europe

‘Witches marks’ and curses found carved into the walls of historic England manor

About 20 carvings in “a wide range of designs” including some meant to trap demons or to seek help from the Virgin Mary have been found at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire, England.

October 30, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
A protester holds a sign that reads "Make Fascists Afraid Again!" during a demonstration at the University of Washington on Jan. 20, 2017, in Seattle.

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  • Politics

Harris called Trump a 'fascist.' Experts debate what fascism is -- and isn't

Vice President Harris and Trump's former chief of staff say Trump fits the definition of "fascist." Scholars who agree say the term is useful as a distress signal for the threat to democracy.

October 29, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman
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