Rachel Maddow equates Trump admin’s reported immigration plans to WWII-era internment camps

Rachel Maddow equates Trump admin’s reported immigration plans to WWII-era internment camps

“Rachel Maddow equates Trump admin’s reported immigration plans to WWII-era internment camps” MS NOW host Rachel Maddow compared the Trump administration’s reported plans to construct several large-scale holding centers for deportees to the internment camps built for Japanese Americans during World War II. During a Thursday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Maddow was asked about…

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#The surprising true origin of Paddington Bear

#The surprising true origin of Paddington Bear

“The surprising true origin of Paddington Bear” This weekend, two British institutions — Queen Elizabeth and Paddington Bear — charmed the world in a surprise skit that kicked off the Platinum Party at the Palace tribute concert outside Buckingham Palace. But many viewers might not have known the real origins of the ursine celebrity who hails…

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#Campaign in Ukraine forced, necessary

#Campaign in Ukraine forced, necessary

“Campaign in Ukraine forced, necessary” Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies. Speaking Monday at a military parade marking the World War II victory over the Nazis, Putin drew parallels between the Red Army’s fighting against the Nazi troops and the Russian…

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#These American reporters covered Europe between world wars

#These American reporters covered Europe between world wars

“These American reporters covered Europe between world wars” In the early 1920s, American newspapers were just beginning to hire Americans as foreign correspondents. They had had them in wartime — almost always men who made their names reporting from far-away battlefields — but not during other times, when they tended to rely on wire services like…

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#The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer

#The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer

“#The search for Anne Frank’s betrayer” No individual story of the Holocaust is as famous as that of Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid from the Nazis with her family and friends in an Amsterdam attic for more than two years. The world at large knows her story because of the remarkable diary she…

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#Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102

#Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102

“#Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee dies at 102” Charles McGee, a decorated military pilot with the pioneering all-black Tuskegee Airman who flew combat missions in three wars, died Sunday. He was 102. McGee died peacefully in his sleep, his family said in a statement obtained by Reuters. “He had his right hand over his heart and…

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