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The story of an earlier Los Angeles wildfire and how one family rebuilt their life
For those who have lost homes and personal treasures in the Los Angeles fires or are wondering how the thousands of victims will get through the agony…
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100 years of change for Jimmy Carter and for the U.S.; 40% of America's lifespan
One hundred years.
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Jimmy Carter: One of three presidents with Iowa ties
Jimmy Carter was a Georgia peanut farmer and former one-term governor when he decided to run for the presidency in 1975.
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A Look Back at the Okoboji Flooding: Devastation on the Lakeshore
The Story of Pillsbury Point: From a Massacre to an Amusement Park
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RFK, Jr. - The wrong man for a job on which millions of American lives depend
If Robert F.
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Presidential Pardons: Where they came from, how they have been used
Sidestory: The Iowan who benefitted from the presidential power of pardon
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The Strangling Angel of Children -- Looking back or looking forward?
An anti-vaxxer running the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?
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The War Germany Tried Hardest to Win: No, it was not its war against Europe, Russia and the U.S.
Anniversary of Kristallnacht and review of a new film -- "Resistence: They Fought Back"
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Can a sitting vice president win election to the presidency? Not very often
Since the beginning of the USA, 15 of the nation’s 49 vice presidents have become president.
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A loss that is worth mourning: Newspaper presidential endorsements
Presidential endorsements in American newspapers had a good run – more than 150 years – and America is the better for it.
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How a presidential campaign that wasn't-- from an earlier time--seems relevant today
And what all of this has meant to Jews then and now
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Until 2017, 16 successive presidents had the opposition party represented in their top-level leadership group
Kamala Harris’s commitment to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if she is elected is nothing new.
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Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts
Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts
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