North Korea allows no dissent and harshly punishes attempts to flee the country. read more
If there was one obvious conclusion from Democrats' sweeping victories in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, it seemed to be that the Republican effort to redraw congressional districts in their favor backfired.
But, says one expert, it would be misleading to say that gerrymandering did not work at all in this election
"The White House's top lawyer sent a letter of warning to incoming House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., on Wednesday, claiming that the Democrats' promise to investigate the Trump administration "may cross the line into blatant criminality."
White House counsel William Scharf wrote Garcia a three-page letter to "remind" him of the constitutional limits of congressional investigations, "which you and members of the new Congress have evinced a clear intent to transgress."
The letter, obtained by PBS News, accuses Democrats of "abusive and capricious threats" against President Donald Trump and members of his administration."
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ACKSON, Miss. (AP) " Democratic nominee Scott Colom has defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
Colom's narrow victory is a seismic shift in Mississippi, which has been controlled mostly by white conservatives for generations, and it will echo through the country as well.
The outcome adds to a decisive midterm rebuke of President Donald Trump, whose party suffered defeats in several Republican-controlled states, and it will bolster some Democrats' argument that their future runs through the American South.
A U.S. Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a group of his senior advisers Wednesday after some in the group laughed and talked near the solemn memorial following a Veterans Day ceremony. "All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times," the sentinel called out, stopping his patrol to face the group as they departed. read more
My dad was afraid he was going to miss the second world war, was turned down at the Army, so at 16 he lied about his age to get into the Air Force.
But the war had ended a few months later as he trained to fly. He then became a Navigator on one of the huge new planes built for the massive number of dangerous flights that were the Berlin Airlift, and flew missions into the city.
Biggest Logistical Flex Of All Time - Berlin Airlift
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Amazing stats on what the US and UK did to save the people of Berlin, and how Russia finally gave up trying to stop it.
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