Harvard University details its ties to slavery and promises a reckoning
America’s oldest university, Harvard, is beginning to come to terms with its own history and role in slavery. The school is out with a new report detailing its extensive entanglement and legacy. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute,…
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A thousand miles from Ukraine, Syrians in Idlib fear history is repeating itself
Ukrainians have been living, suffering and dying under withering Russian air, artillery and missile strikes. Their plight and resistance are perhaps nowhere better understood than in Syria’s Idlib province. There, Syrians who oppose president Bashar al-Assad are in their 11th…
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Volunteers risk their lives to provide aid to Ukrainians trapped on the frontlines
As the war in Ukraine has shifted east, so too have the efforts to aid millions of civilians still stuck between warring armies with nowhere to hide. They lack the very basics, but some of their fellow Ukrainians are risking…
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Biden administration defends border policies as the battle over Title 42 heats up
As the pandemic eases, the influx of migrants on the U.S. southern border is reaching record levels. And the Biden administration is facing new questions from both sides of the aisle about plans to roll back Title 42, the policy…
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News Wrap: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized Republicans after Jan. 6
In our news wrap Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy faces new disclosures that he criticized Republicans after Jan. 6, former President Trump appealed a New York court’s contempt finding, a battle over Native American rights returned to the Supreme…
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As war in Ukraine rages on, U.S. and Russia exchange prisoners
The U.S. and Russia on Wednesday agreed to a prisoner exchange. U.S. Marine Trevor Reed boarded a plane back home after a 2019 arrest in Moscow for allegedly assaulting police officers. He was traded for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot…
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Russia severs natural gas supplies for two NATO nations, escalating standoff with the West
More than two months into Russia’s war in Ukraine Vladimir Putin on Wednesday trained his sights on Europe’s reliance on Russian energy. Moscow cut off supplies of natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria, two of the many European countries that…
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PBS NewsHour live episode, April 27, 2022
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