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Famous summits from U.S. presidential history

After years apart, they found their loved ones experiencing homelessness

Julie Crossman sitting on a stoop wearing a red long-sleeve shirt, is the sister of Nanie Crossman who she lost touch with, in Oakland on April 8, 2025

Trump is targeting sanctuary cities. But what is a sanctuary city, anyway?

People hold signs in support of sanctuary city mayors outside the U.S. capitol, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Government

Why Trump wants to ban barcodes on ballots, and what it means for voters and election officials

Election workers scan ballots at the scanning stations of the Philadelphia City Commissioners Office and Election Warehouse on Election Day in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2024.

Without AmeriCorps rural communities will lose essential social services

Americorps reading tutor Kelly Meany, L, gives one-on-one reading instructions to 7-year-old 2nd grader Madissen Moody at C.W. Harris Elementary School in D.C where Corps members play a huge role in DC public schools, teaching kids to read and acting as role models, on Friday, September 19, 2014

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Oldest cities in America

A building in St. Augustine, Florida.

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A brief history of the US draft

Eighteen- and 19-year-old men take their oath upon entering the receiving center at Camp Upton.

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A brief history of the Cold War

The first Russian atomic bomb test in 1949.

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Data: 2023 housing market

A photo of a home with a for sale sign in the front yard.

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Places to celebrate Women's History Month

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Who actually invented the lightbulb—and the illuminating history of modern lighting

Thomas Edison at the lightbulb's golden jubilee anniversary.

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The deadliest accidental explosions ever recorded

A view taken July 12, 2000 shows the scene of the blaze in which more than 250 people died this week while villagers risked their lives scooping fuel from a vandalized pipeline in Ovive Court in Warri, Nigeria.

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20 photos of shipwrecks from WWI and WWII

A group of divers explore a sunken shipwreck in the blue, Mediterranean sea at Naxos island, Greece

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States with the biggest Native American populations

Indigenous person dances during the inter tribal dance at the 103rd Annual Mashpee Wampanoag Pow Wow in Mashpee, Massachusetts on July 5, 2024.

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50 essential civil rights speeches

Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech at UC Berkeley in California on May 17, 1967.