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Quick Summary Lady Liberty was a gift from France to America, but the story behind the Statue of Liberty is far richer, stranger, and more political than the friendly postcard…
Quick Summary Wildfire smoke pouring south from Canada and northern Minnesota has triggered air quality alerts across a huge stretch of the United States this week, with roughly 100 million…
Quick Summary Writer E. Jean Carroll has finally received the damages she was awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation case against President Trump, three years after a jury found…
Quick Summary America runs on four main time zones today because the railroad industry invented standard time in 1883, decades before the federal government got involved. Before that year, time…
Quick Summary Daylight saving time moved one major step closer to becoming permanent on Tuesday, when the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act by a vote of 308 to 117,…
Quick Summary The American Flag flying today, with its 13 stripes and 50 stars, is the twenty-seventh official version of a design first approved by the Continental Congress on June…
Quick Summary South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has appointed Darline Graham Nordone to the Senate Seat left vacant by the death of her brother, Senator Lindsey Graham, who died Saturday…
Quick Summary When a senator dies in office, the answer to who fills the seat depends almost entirely on which state they represented, because the Constitution leaves Senate vacancies to…
Quick Summary US Strikes hit approximately 140 Iranian military targets over the weekend, marking the heaviest exchange of fire between Washington and Tehran in weeks. The strikes came after Iran…
Quick Summary The Missouri flooding disaster deepened this weekend after more than 200 children and counselors were airlifted to safety from Camp Taum Sauk in Lesterville, with the campers plucked…