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Project Oasis is a Google-backed research initiative to support local news startups Google

Project Oasis is a Google-backed research initiative to support local news startups

As part of its $300 million News Initiative, Google is teaming up with the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, local news association LION Publishers and consultant Douglas K. Smith to launch a new initiative called Project Oasis. In a blog…
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March 18, 2020
Hunters: even Al Pacino can’t hide the fact that this series gets it badly wrong on the Holocaust Auschwitz-Birkenau

Hunters: even Al Pacino can’t hide the fact that this series gets it badly wrong on the Holocaust

Spoiler alert: this article contains plot details from series one of Hunters. In the very opening episode of the hit Amazon Prime drama Hunters, SS man Heinz Richter forces Auschwitz prisoner Markus Roth, a chess grandmaster, to play a game. But this is no ordinary chess game – prisoners are…
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March 18, 2020
Celebrate National Awkward Moments Day With the Pop Culture That Had Us in a Full-Body Cringe Giphy

Celebrate National Awkward Moments Day With the Pop Culture That Had Us in a Full-Body Cringe

Getty Images/E! Illustration We could all use a good laugh right about now.With the state of the world what is it is right now and everyone practicing some extreme social distancing for the sake of everyone, we're all looking for something to take our minds off our worries, if even…
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March 18, 2020
Trump Admin. to Send Back All Asylum-Seekers at Border to Prevent Coronavirus Spread Mexico Border Wall

Trump Admin. to Send Back All Asylum-Seekers at Border to Prevent Coronavirus Spread

The Trump administration is planning to immediately deport any illegal immigrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, the New York Times reported Tuesday.Administration officials said the Border Patrol cannot risk an outbreak of coronavirus in its detention facilities. Mexico has reported just 82 cases of coronavirus and…
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March 18, 2020
Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America [Audiobook]-P2P Slavery Abolition

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America [Audiobook]-P2P

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War – a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict. This brilliantly argued new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union to…
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March 18, 2020