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A Fact-Checker Warned NYT About Their Inaccurate 1619 Project. The Times Didn’t Listen. 1619 Slavery

A Fact-Checker Warned NYT About Their Inaccurate 1619 Project. The Times Didn’t Listen.

A history professor who helped fact-check The New York Times’ debunked 1619 Project said her edits were ignored. Leslie Harris, a history professor at Northwestern University and an author, took to Politico to explain her experience with the Times’ 1619 Project and its claim that the American Revolution was fought to preserve…
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March 8, 2020
MH17 relatives protest against Russia’s lack of cooperation with 298 empty chairs on eve of trial BUK-Missile

MH17 relatives protest against Russia’s lack of cooperation with 298 empty chairs on eve of trial

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): The families of people killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014 set out 298 white chairs outside the Russian Embassy on Sunday (March 8) in a silent protest against Moscow’s lack of cooperation in the investigation into the…
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March 8, 2020
Saudi Arabia royal arrests described as ‘warning’ from Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince consolidates power Turkish Refugee Camp

Saudi Arabia royal arrests described as ‘warning’ from Mohammed bin Salman as crown prince consolidates power

Two senior princes in Saudi Arabia have been arrested for not supporting the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, sources close to the royal family have said. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz​, King Salman’s younger brother, and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the king’s nephew and former counterterrorism tsar, were arrested on Friday after…
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March 8, 2020
Coronavirus outbreak: “Caged” pope skips Sunday address from window due to COVID-19 spread Pope Francis

Coronavirus outbreak: “Caged” pope skips Sunday address from window due to COVID-19 spread

Published on Mar 8, 2020Saying he felt "caged," Pope Francis delivered his blessing over the internet from inside the Vatican on Sunday, instead of from a window, to stop crowds gathering during Italy's COVID-19 outbreak.He did, however, go to the window and wave silently to several hundred people in the…
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March 8, 2020