The Civil War Lives Through Mark Twain’s Fiction—and Donald Trump’s Reality
The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...
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The White House Seder started in a Pennsylvania basement — its legacy lives on
When three Jewish Obama campaign staffers hosted an impromptu Seder, they didn’t realize they’d be setting the groundwork for ...
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Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'
However, such narratives — some versions more lurid than others — exaggerate rather than faithfully depict events that occurred in Natchez, Mississippi, during the Civil War. While it's true ...
The Hill5d
House Republican: White House ‘in denial’ about Signal war plans chat
said the White House is “in denial” over The ... Hegseth, for example, said “nobody was texting war plans,” Gabbard told senators during a hearing Tuesday that “there was no classified ...
Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...
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White House scrambles to contain Signal chat fallout
Officials seized on a headline description of “attack plans” rather than “war plans ... on X. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt faced a barrage of questions during a briefing ...
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U.N. chief: World leaders must speak with one voice to prevent a new civil war in South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations chief urged regional and international leaders Friday to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” into another civil war and speak with one voice ...
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White House Suddenly Does a 180 on Confirming War Plans Group Chat
This comes after Defense Secretary Hegseth outright denied that any war plans were shared ... court Patricia Millett came during a hearing Monday over the White House’s spontaneous decision ...
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What were the war plans White House mistakenly shared with The Atlantic journalist?
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth listen during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington ... Goldberg to access US war plans on Yemen Accounts ...
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War chat row: White House says no classified material were shared on Signal
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during a media briefing in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2025. (AFP) “No war plans were discussed,” President Donald Trump's press secretary ...
Detention of South Sudan's VP Machar cancels peace deal, his party says
The detention of South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the ...
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White House seeks to contain scandal over Signal chat discussing war plans
(Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Hegseth trashed Goldberg and claimed he didn’t share any “war plans ... a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March ...