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Checkpoint

Four unexpected places where the Berlin Wall still stands

When the border between East and West Germany opened on the night of Nov. 9, 1989, revelers hacked and chiseled at the Berlin Wall, which had divided the city for decades. They were trying to make way for people to cross over, but also revolting against a str…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

NASDAQ

Market Extra: A ‘golden cross’ is forming in a key stock-market index of small-caps

Things are starting to turn around in a big way for small-capitalization U.S. stocks, as their larger-cap brethren enjoy a string of recent record closes. The Russell 2000 index RUT, +0.09%, the benchmark of small stocks, is set to see a bullish golden c…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Kennedy, Markey pick up new endorsements

State Senator Eric P. Lesser of Longmeadow announced Friday he is endorsing Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III for Senate, strengthening the Newton Democrats toe-hold in the western part of the state as he seeks to beat incumbent Senator Edward J. Markey. …

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier

At the age of nineteen, Abraham Lincoln made the grand tour of the West, as it existed then and as his means allowed. He traveled as a flatboat deckhand down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Feeling the power of the great river, and observing the armada …

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Times Square

The Strange Case of Time Traveling Rudolph Fentz

In 1950, a New York City police officer who was working missing-persons cases examined the body of an approximately 30-year-old man that was brought into the morgue. The man had shown up in the middle of Times Square at 11:15 p.m. that evening, gawking and lo…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Hiroshima

This Secret About America’s B-29 Bomber Might Surprise You (Russia Flew It Too)

Key point: China is not the only nation known for successfully reverse-engineering other countries' military equipment. Few aircraft have as great a mark on history as the B-29, the pencil-shaped American four-engine bomber that dropped the atomic bombs over…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Geely

2020 Honda Civic Si, 2020 Polestar 1, Jessi Combs: The Week In Reverse.

We took Honda's updated 2020 Civic Si for a spin at the track; the 2020 Polestar 1 arrived with something to prove; and the report on Jessi Combs' fatal accident became public. It's the week in reverse, right here onMotor Authority. Honda's sport-compact sta…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

NATO

Pompeo warns China’s treatment of civilians ‘horrifyingly similar’ to East Germany on eve of Berlin Wall anniversary

Dismissing the debate around Macron's comments as "kerfuffle," Mr Pompeo acknowledged that "NATO needs to grow and change, it needs to confront the realities of today and the challenges today." "The United States and its allies should "defend what was so har…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Xi Jinping

Trump says he hasn’t agreed to roll back tariffs, despite China’s announcement

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday that he has not committed to rolling back tariffs on China a statement directly opposite to what appeared to be a breakthrough announcement from China on Thursday that the two countries had agreed on a deal to star…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Refugees Welcome

Acclaimed NYC Mexican Restaurateur Staves Off Potential Deportation for Now

Photo by Robert Sietsema Now Marco Saavedra will have to wait until at least January Marco Saavedra, an immigration rights activist who helps runs celebrated Bronx Oaxacan restaurant La Morada with his family, has at least temporarily avoided potential deport…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Four unexpected places where the Berlin Wall still stands

Market Extra: A ‘golden cross’ is forming in a key stock-market index of small-caps

Kennedy, Markey pick up new endorsements

Abe Lincoln Looks West: How the Civil War Changed the Frontier

The Strange Case of Time Traveling Rudolph Fentz

This Secret About America’s B-29 Bomber Might Surprise You (Russia Flew It Too)

2020 Honda Civic Si, 2020 Polestar 1, Jessi Combs: The Week In Reverse.

Pompeo warns China’s treatment of civilians ‘horrifyingly similar’ to East Germany on eve of Berlin Wall anniversary

Trump says he hasn’t agreed to roll back tariffs, despite China’s announcement

Acclaimed NYC Mexican Restaurateur Staves Off Potential Deportation for Now

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