Author name: Heather Cox Richardson

In a timeline of Trump’s decision to drop 12 of the reportedly 20 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs the U.S.

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Last night, exactly a week after his military parade fizzled and more than five million Americans turned out to protest his administration, President Donald J.

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At 7:50 this evening, Eastern Time, President Donald J.

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Individuals in plain clothes with their faces covered and without badges or name tags are snatching people off the streets and taking them away.

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Just a week ago, the Trump administration was preparing for a sixth round of negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program, scheduled to be held in Oman on June 15.

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Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.

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Yesterday at the meeting of the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), a forum of democracies with advanced economies, President Donald Trump told reporters: “The UK is very well protected.

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At a news conference today, acting U.S.

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Yesterday began with the horrific news that a gunman had shot two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses in what Minnesota governor Tim Walz said appeared to be a “politically motivated assassination.” State representative Melissa Hortman, who was the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark, both died in the attack at their home in Brooklyn Park, a city near Minneapolis.

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Tonight I offer you Peter Ralston’s “Still There.”

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