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Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

Now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be the nominee, it will ultimately be up to Democratic National Convention delegates to formally select a new nominee for their party. This will mark the first time in over 50…

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One memorable speech can turn around a faltering campaign − how Nixon did it with his ‘Checkers’ talk

Twenty years before Watergate, then-Sen. Richard Nixon’s national political ambitions were in peril. He was accused of dipping into a private, $18,000 slush fund to cover expenses, and doubts about the propriety of his conduct intensified as the 1952 presidential election campaign unfolded.

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Spare a thought for weather watcher Maureen Sweeney who made the right call for D-Day

The generals, paratroopers, pilots infantrymen all played their role for the D-Day invasion

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Ten classic films about D-day, recommended by a war historian

The allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, commonly known as D-day, was an enormously significant moment in the history of the second world war.

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How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy

On D-Day, The Associated Press had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English departure ports and airfields covering the Allied assault in Normandy

The Independent UK

Soviet media downplayed the significance of the D-Day invasion

When Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to participate in the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in France in 2019, he claimed it was “not a problem” because the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, “was not a game changer.”

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Mike Johnson and the troubled history of recent Republican speakers

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration.

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38 pictures from the extraordinary life of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth’s life in pictures, from her magnificent Westminster wedding to her milestone Platinum Jubilee and plenty of heartfelt family moments

Woman & Home

The Five Biggest Recent Changes To Augusta National For The Masters

Augusta National has regularly made changes for The Masters to keep up with the times, here's the five biggest ones of recent years

Golf Monthly

A look back at Queen Elizabeth II's best royal tour moments

The late Queen went on countless tours in her lifetime; we look back on some of the most significant ones

Woman & Home

Exploring The Transition: Military Leaders To Statesmen

Explore the lives of 10 military leaders who made a significant impact as statesmen in history.

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32 of the best royal tour moments, from Kate's show-stopping outfits to Queen Elizabeth's poignant first Commonwealth visit

A look at some of the most memorable royal tour moments in history.

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Today in Supreme Court History: January 20, 1953

1/20/1953: President Eisenhower takes the inaugural oath on January 20. He would make five appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Justices John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.

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Trump accelerates his anti-immigrant agenda

The frontrunner for the GOP nomination is plotting a draconian expansion of his first-term immigration plan

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Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech on nuclear dangers has important lessons even after 70 years

Seventy years ago, on December 8 1953, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a speech to the United Nations general assembly, setting out his concerns about “atomic warfare”.

Foreign Policy

Biden and Xi Try the Personal Touch

Does face-to-face diplomacy ever change anything?

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Fellow Travelers’ resonates as a sweeping love story full of joy and pain

Playing two men in 1950s politics with an attraction society wouldn’t allow, Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey are heartbreakingly good in Showtime limited series.

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A solution to America's K-12 STEM teacher shortage: Endowed chairs

Ever since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit on Oct. 4, 1957, America has been struggling to recruit and retain STEM teachers in its public middle and high schools.

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Kamala Harris has tied the record for the most tie-breaking votes in Senate history – a brief overview of what vice presidents do

On Jan. 20, 2021, Kamala Harris became the first African American, the first person of South Asian descent and the first woman to serve as vice president of the United States.

The Independent UK

You always hear about the 'nuclear football.' Here's the behind-the-scenes story

The “nuclear football” is a bulky briefcase that contains atomic war plans and enables the president to transmit nuclear orders to the Pentagon

WEKU

Step inside the world's only nuclear-powered passenger ship — built in 1959

The Nuclear Ship Savannah offers a snapshot of a nuclear future that never quite came to pass.

Irish Mirror

Irishwoman whose weather report of 'storm' led to key delay of D-Day in WWII turns 100

One of her duties from Europe’s most westerly weather station included making hourly reports from the lighthouse - which were being sent to London.

Al Jazeera

Oliver Stone: How he stopped worrying and learned to love nuclear

Film director says risk of nuclear contamination from Ukraine war is less threatening to the planet than fossil fuels.

The Independent UK

At Normandy D-Day celebrations, echoes of Ukraine's looming fight

There are no Ukrainian troops present at this year's commemorations of the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, which launched the Allied invasion of Europe and led to the end of World War II

WEKU

The first debt ceiling fight was in 1953. It looked almost exactly like the one today

Debt ceiling dramas have been going on a long time. The first one happened exactly 70 years ago. President Eisenhower asked Congress for an extra $15 billion and the Senate said, "No dice."

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