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We’ve known for a short while that running back Leonard Fournette will be a member of the Buccaneers, but the signing did not become official until Sunday. The Buccaneers announced Fournette’s signing and he had some company on the team’s transaction report. They also re-signed center A.Q. Shipley, who signed with the team this summer [more]

SAN JOSE – Researchers in Costa Rica are due to begin trials of an inexpensive coronavirus treatment based on antibodies taken from horses injected with the SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to scientists. Developed by University of Costa Rica’s Clodomiro Picado Institute (ICP), the equine antibodies medication is to be tested on 26...

CHICAGO (AP) — More than 1 million Illinoisans have applied to vote by mail for the November election, roughly triple the number of the last presidential contest in 2016.

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A second $1,200 maximum check from the IRS may still happen, but some prominent questions remain. The original CARES Act may offer clues as to what a second round of payments might look like.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden delivering his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. | Win McNamee/Getty Images

Voters expressed more confidence in Trump on the economy, but Biden led on everything else.

With Congress deadlocked for months on a new coronavirus-relief package, many states haven’t had the luxury of waiting to see whether more money is on the way. Some that have delayed budget decisions are growing frustrated by the uncertainty.

EastEnders viewers feared Chantelle Atkins would be murdered, after seeing a preview of the soap's post-lockdown episodes

Amazon.com Inc. is barring foreign sales of seeds into the U.S. after thousands of suspicious packets, many postmarked from China, arrived at households around the world this summer.

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Soccer Aid 2020 came to a close with an entertaining performance from Robbie Williams and The Struts. Robbie had been superimposed onto the stage and fans thought it was hilarious

Still from The Proud City, 1945

In 1942, at the height of the Second World War, the British government published a plan for the destruction and rebuilding of whatever of London was left standing after German bombing. The ambition compared with Albert Speer’s ‘Germania’ proposal for a new Berlin. War is kind to planners. The London proposal came from one such, Patrick Abercrombie, who saw the metropolis as essentially outdated. The Blitz was an opportunity to start afresh. 

Abercrombie’s... Читать дальше...

Having never seen this T-shirt within the state,

I don’t think it’s really a Vermont joke. 

Why do some states develop a joke culture while others don’t?

For that matter, some states develop much stronger state identities than others. One is or is not a native Vermonter, for example. Indeed, I probably should have written “Native Vermonter.” 

I moved to Vermont in 1975. Shortly after arriving, I went to a potluck dinner at the home of the minister of the Burlington Unitarian Church... Читать дальше...

Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912

As we celebrate Labor Day and hard-working Americans, let's also think of Bread and Roses. For back in 1912 that’s what inspired laborers in the textile mills of Lawrence, Massachusetts to go on a history-making strike. They stood up for the rights of workers and the poor, ideals we must carry on today.  Many immigrant women and children worked long, grueling hours at the American Woolen company's mills in Lawrence. This was dangerous work in producing fabric for clothing. Читать дальше...

This November, California voters will have the chance to repeal the state’s longtime ban on affirmative action. A state ballot measure, Proposition 16, will be the first major test of voter enthusiasm for social justice measures since the May 28 murder of George Floyd.  

Fidesz rally, Budapest, 2006. Photo Derzsi Elekes Andor, CC BY-SA 3.0

On New Year’s Eve in 1999, historian and journalist Anne Applebaum and her husband Radek Sikorski, who was then Poland’s deputy foreign minister, hosted what sounded like a really great party. Their home was filled with American and British journalists, Polish dignitaries, and some of their neighbors. Applebaum characterizes them as representatives of “the right,” which at the time meant something vastly different from what it means today. Читать дальше...

Black Student and Third World Liberation Strike, San Francisco State, 1968

A political cartoon, likely 1836, mocks the personal life of Richard Mentor Johnson and suggests his selection will appeal to 

As I listen to President Trump speechify about how he is launching “an all-out-campaign to destroy MS-13,” the Salvadoran gang whose members (maras) I’ve known for over 30 years, the first thing I think is “it must be election season.” The second thing I think about is history, specifically, a historical figure whose contributions to creating the “gang threat” have had and are still having catastrophic consequences: Attorney General William Barr. More than anyone in U.S. history, Barr perfected the Salvadoran gang formula—mixing elections... Читать дальше...

Admit it, fellow boomers, you looked.  How could you not?

You were on the slow-moving checkout line at the grocery store, stalled by a complicated series of price checks involving the customer in front of you.  Your kids were transfixed by the candy rack.  “Just one apiece,” you finally said, surrendering to their whining while maintaining the pretense of laying down a tough line.

Besides, it was the eye candy, not the Gummy Bears, that had your attention.  There it was, right next to the cash register... Читать дальше...

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None of the founders of the country conceivably imagined that if the Attorney General is indeed the creature of the President, he would be ill-equipped to investigate, much less prosecute the President or his associates for wrongdoing, either before or during his presidency. It obviously didn’t occur to Hamilton, Madison or Jay that we might one day have a rogue President like Donald Trump with a life history of being one step ahead of the law... Читать дальше...

Adam Domby, an award-winning historian and specialist on the Civil War and Reconstruction, examines the role of lies and exaggeration in the Lost Cause narratives and their celebration of white supremacy in his timely and groundbreaking new book The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (University of Virginia Press, 2020). 

The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1947. By year's end, the 555th would be inactivated and its members