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On the Trail of American Women in Paris
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoHow often have recent events in the United States borne out William Faulkner’s famous aphorism “The past isn’t dead, it isn’t even past”? The women...
Sen. Tim Scott won’t be the last to lionize Trump or talk of divine intervention at RNC | Opinion
Hilton Head Island Packet via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days ago“On Saturday the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle, but an American lion got back up on his feet and he roared,” Tim Scott told an RNC crowd.
Meet the American who invented the TV remote control: self-taught Chicago engineer Eugene Polley
AOL· 4 days agoEugene Polley should be ther most popular man on the planet. Polley, a self-taught mechanical engineer from Chicago, invented the television remote control in 1955. Eugene Polley changed our ...
Illinois lands federal partnership to further develop quantum projects
Chicago Sun-Times· 4 days agoGov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday plans to announce a major partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense’s research and development agency to further expand quantum research in Illinois ...
'The pressure change was causing me to have contractions': What it's really like to be a tornado...
BBC News· 4 days agoHow tornadoes form remains one of nature's biggest mysteries. Meet the scientists who are chasing...
Trump assassination attempt unlikely to have lasting political impact, observers say
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 4 days ago...shot to death by a mob in a jail in Carthage, Illinois, while awaiting trial on charges Smith had...
Progressives try to send a message of resistance through the RNC security barrier
MPR News· 4 days agoWhile Republican delegates gathered on the floor of the Fiserv Forum on Monday for the first day of the RNC, progressive activists were assembling outside. With handmade signs decrying the “ ...
Illinois man sentenced to probation for role in Dubuque burglary
telegraphherald.com· 4 days agoAn Illinois man has been sentenced to five years of probation for a Dubuque burglary that preceded a local shots-fired incident. Demarion R. Owens, 21, of Chicago, recently ...
Astros prioritize college pitching on Day 2 of MLB Draft
New York Times· 4 days agoArmed with the sport’s smallest bonus pool and operating without a second-round pick, the Houston...
These Are America’s Wealthiest Suburbs
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance Canada· 4 days agoMove over New York City, Los Angeles and Miami. Wealthy Americans are swapping notoriously rich city locales in favor of making moves to quiet, secluded...