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    Work of an Amateur: Czech Avant-Garde Photography at the National Gallery

    May 20, 2009 08:34 PM EDT

    ... of modernist photography. To consider their photographs today is like taking a short tour through early 20th century European history (its art, inspirations and politics). At Europe’s cultural and geographic crossroads between East and West, the former Czechoslovakia was a breeding ground for burgeoning art movements. Its own avant ...

  • Second beheading dares U.S. to act

    Second beheading dares U.S. to act

    Sep 03, 2014 12:59 PM EDT

    ... Did you know, for example, there are two openly gay Republicans running, one who could be the first blind member in a long time, and a female former fighter pilot? For Democrats, there’s a guy who manages 1,000 beehives, a former Army general who served at Guantanamo, the ...

  • Tuesday’s primary headliners: Mississippi and Iowa

    Tuesday’s primary headliners: Mississippi and Iowa

    Jun 03, 2014 01:15 PM EDT

    ... television ad Monday hitting North Carolina state House speaker and GOP Senate candidate Thom Tillis for supporting cuts to education funding and freezing teacher pay. American Crossroads is out with a new Mark Pryor attack ad, in which a spelling bee contestant answers “O-B-A-M-A” when asked ...

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    Telenovelas Provide Platform for Public Health Messages

    Jan 25, 2012 10:56 PM EDT

    ... Cara James: Language is certainly an issue, and not just for the Hispanic population. In this country, we have about 55 million people who speak a language other than English at home. That's not necessarily a problem, but what we are more concerned about are the 25 million individuals ...

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    John Walker Lindh Faces Charges

    Jan 15, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... t know what the ultimate facts are. But, yeah, his intent is... I mean, I think the question in people's minds is how did a young American man end up in this place and I'm sure one thing a defense attorney might think is, can we make a ...

  • News Wrap: Deadly bombing rocks popular Thai shrine

    News Wrap: Deadly bombing rocks popular Thai shrine

    Aug 17, 2015 11:30 PM EDT

    ... of the dead ranged from 18 to 27, possibly including foreigners, with more than 100 injured. Dan Rivers of Independent Television News reports. DAN RIVERS: At the height of rush hour, a fire ball engulfs one of Bangkok's busiest crossroads. Caught on the dashboard camera of a car nearby ...

  • Congress has no plan to prevent a Homeland Security shutdown this week

    Congress has no plan to prevent a Homeland Security shutdown this week

    Feb 23, 2015 02:12 PM EDT

    ... union enrollment hard and could hurt Democrats’ ground operations in the state in 2016. Are you ready for campaign ads? Well the conservative Super PAC American Crossroads has already put together a new ad attacking the Clinton Global Initiative for accepting foreign donations, and it features audio of none other ...

  • With Alaska results, stage is set for fall elections

    With Alaska results, stage is set for fall elections

    Aug 20, 2014 01:01 PM EDT

    Former state Attorney General Dan Sullivan held off Sarah Palin-backed and 2010 Senate nominee Joe Miller in the Alaska Republican Senate primary, earning the right to take on Democratic incumbent Mark Begich this fall. With the Alaska results, the stage is now set for the fall's most hotly contested races that will decide control of...

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    Outside Super PACs Poised to Dominate 2012 Spending

    Oct 17, 2011 10:21 PM EDT

    When it comes to financing presidential campaigns, the money raised by individual candidates may count less in the 2012 election than past contests. Gwen Ifill discusses the potential might of the new super PACs with Tara Malloy of the Campaign Legal Center and the Heritage Foundation's Hans von Spakovsky.

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    Students Experience Hunger to Raise Money for Haiti

    Mar 01, 2011 03:16 PM EDT

    Students sort clothes at World Vision warehouse. Photo by Tom Bearden Any parent can testify to the fact that teenagers can sometimes resemble a plague of locusts -- they can eat you out of house and home. So it may be something of a surprise that 300,000 American teens volunteered to go completely without food...