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An American held hostage in Afghanistan has been freed in a prisoner swap

Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran turned civilian contractor, was abducted in January 2020. His release centered on a prisoner exchange involving Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and Taliban member.

WEKU

Editorial: Roberts asks why trust in the court has plunged. He’s seated among the answers

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts lamented recently that he didn’t “understand” why the court’s legitimacy has been diminished in Americans’ eyes merely because it has issued “opinions people disagree with.” If he really thinks that’s the problem, then, no, he doesn’t understand at all. Any sober assessment of the…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

‘Rapid acceleration’ in US school book censorship leads to 2,500 bans in a year

School districts in 32 states banned 1,648 individual titles in the last school year, a report by Pen America found

The Guardian - US

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Taliban freed from Guantanamo, claims exchanged for American

A senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo Bay says he was released and handed over to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Travel for Two: 5 inns that will complement your Pacific Coast meandering

Of all the wonderfully scenic drives across America, and there are plenty, perhaps no other is as romantic and wild as the Pacific Coast Highway that parallels, and sometimes hugs up close, California’s spectacularly dramatic coastline.

Tribune News Service

Biden says US would defend Taiwan in ‘unprecedented attack’

U.S. military forces would defend Taiwan if there was “an unprecedented attack,” President Joe Biden said, underscoring America’s commitment to the island as Chinese incursions mount near its shores.

Tribune News Service

Why the Queen inspired American women

The queen was a subversive model for American women of the 1950s, and many traveled to London for her coronation

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J. Brady McCollough: How Lincoln Riley's hot USC start affects Nebraska, Urban Meyer

The day's biggest headlines were written Saturday morning in America's heartland before a minute of football had been played, when a confluence of unfortunate events led to a rowdy crowd of Nebraska fans feeding the ever-hungry ego of college football's most controversial iconic former head coach.

Los Angeles Times

Ken Burns makes the Holocaust personal

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein show us how America's antisemitism delayed our entry into World War II

Salon

Save America rally in the key of Q

As Trump spoke in support of J.D. Vance, a song played called “WWG1WGA,” shorthand for “where we go one we go all"

Salon

I voted for Trump — twice. I was wrong

I was all-in on Donald Trump's lies, well after Jan. 6. What opened my eyes? Gather round and I'll tell you

Salon

The fight for disability rights

Disability rights was once far from the mainstream of American politics; activists with disabilities changed that

Salon

New model to enlist regular Americans to resettle refugees

With refugee resettlement agencies overwhelmed after being gutted by the Trump administration, thousands of Americans heeded the call to help Afghans restart their lives in far-flung towns across the United States with little to no immigrant populations

The Independent UK

Reflections on mortality: Alessandra Sanguinetti on her eerie images of the midwest

Inspired by a cult 1970s book, the Magnum photographer travelled to Wisconsin to create an eerie and timeless portrait of rural America

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Guam, America's forgotten speck of an island in the Pacific, is the new front line against China

As China flexes its air strength at Taiwan and builds navy capacity at unprecedented speed, the United States is bolstering defences on its most important military outpost in the western Pacific: the tropical island of Guam.

Salon

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

A case of fake history repeating itself: The American right told vicious lies about the Confederacy for decades

Glasgow Live

Glasgow predator preyed on 11 girls online and threatened to 'leak' photo of victim

Cameron Stevens targeted the children both here and America from his then-home in Glasgow's Pollok. He has been jailed for three years after being convicted of 14 sex offences.

Salon

A 1920s presidential death conspiracy

Warren G. Harding led America through the dawn of the Roaring Twenties — and met with a fittingly mysterious demise

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Daily Mirror

Harry and Meghan 'risk losing America' if they continue royal attacks after Queen's death

Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Prince and Princess of Wales have called a truce following Queen Elizabeth's death, according to reports

WEKU

America's Christian majority is on track to end

A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mass grave is evidence of the horrific price Ukraine is paying as it fights for freedom

Most Americans feel much the same about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion now as in February: 53% of Americans surveyed in an August poll said the U.S. should continue to support Ukraine “until all Russian forces are withdrawn.”

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Primary colors: What a new study tells us about the Democratic and Republican parties

One stubborn analysis of partisanship in America that goes like this: Republicans have their share of candidates on the far right and Democrats have theirs on the far left, and in primary elections, each divisively drags their respective party’s center of gravity away from where most general election voters stand.

The Guardian - US

The Nation That Never Was review: a new American origin story, from the ashes of the old

Kermit Roosevelt III, descendant of Theodore, sees lessons for today’s divided nation in Reconstruction and the civil rights era

Daily Record

Snoop Dogg plans to open Glasgow restaurant with Gordon Ramsay

The 50-year-old rapper first met the fiery Scot on his The F Word show in America five years ago.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 17 September 2022

Inflation lunged sideways, stocks dropped all over the shop, the European Union massaged its slapping hand, and Adobe suite went brrr.

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