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By the mid-19th century, residential schools had become law in the U.S. Indigenous children were taken from their families without permission and, in essence, rebirthed as white people.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed 77 years ago this week. The two bombs the United States dropped on those cities killed some 200,000 human beings, most of whom were civilians.
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Back in 1967 people were electrified by “The Graduate,” especially the scene of 40+ Anne Bancroft seducing 21-year old Dustin Hoffman. But there was another iconic moment, when one of his parents’ friends definitively pronounces one word to Hoffman that would assure his future business success: “plastics.”
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin participated in the official grand opening and ribbon cutting of the Mecklenburg County Middle School and High School on Friday, and used the occasion to ceremonially sign legislation providing more than $1 billion in school construction funds for K-12 public education.
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The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the next week.
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How underwhelming was the Washington Nationals farm system before GM Mike Rizzo landed a package of top prospects from San Diego in the Juan Soto trade?
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The Moss Arts Center’s 2022-23 season includes artists representing 13 countries and four continents across the fields of music, dance, theatre, literary arts and visual arts.
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Ancient giant sequoias in California, once considered impervious to flames, are again under threat from wildfires, this time in the Yosemite National Park.
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Former VP Dick Cheney calls Donald Trump “a coward,” in addition to “the greatest threat to our republic” in the nation’s 246-year history, in a new TV commercial for Cheney’s daughter, Liz, who is facing an unwinnable battle for her congressional seat in her native Wyoming.
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Democrats have drawn even with Republicans in polling ahead of the 2022 midterms, and Jennifer Lewis, the Democratic congressional nominee in the Sixth District in Virginia, is feeling the energy.
