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Oct 13, 2025
President Donald Trump floated the possibility of using the Insurrection Act after Oregon and Illinois objected to his National Guard deployments. Here’s what the law says.
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Sep 26, 2025
In post-Blitz London, organizers threw together the first U.N. General Assembly with rationed food, a shoestring budget and big ambitions for a peaceful future.
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Jul 25, 2025
Researchers identified the shipwreck as HMS Hind, a British frigate that intercepted American ships in the Atlantic before being repurposed as a whaling vessel.
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Jun 23, 2025
The U.S. has not publicly called for regime change in the current Israel-Iran conflict, but over 70 years ago, it played a key role in ousting Tehran’s government.
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Jun 18, 2025
The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers.
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Jan 24, 2025
Ronald Reagan scribbled a note in 1989 to his successor above an elephant cartoon. The tradition, started perhaps inadvertently, was continued by Joe Biden.