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Why is the state capital Juneau and not Anchorage?
But Juneau wasn’t the state capital yet because Alaska wasn’t a state yet; it was a territory. The Capitol building was built ...
LA protests live: Federal judge orders Trump to return control of National Guard to Newsom
A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump Thursday night to return control of the thousands of National Guard troops he deployed in Los Angeles in response to the anti-ICE raid protests to ...
China’s Everest obsession: following Mallory’s footsteps a century on, I saw how tourism and climate change are transforming the mountain
To the discerning eye, other mountains are visible – giants between 23,000 and 26,000 feet high. Not one of their slenderer ...
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Arise Sir David! Football legend Beckham knighted
Former England football captain and global fashion icon David Beckham was knighted on Friday for his services to sport and ...
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The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first
The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her ...
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The stars and stripes fly, in photos, as Flag Day approaches
More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of ...
40 years later, a look back at Anchorage’s punk era
From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, a small, tight-knit community in Anchorage came together over their shared love of the alternative. Forty years later, Jayce Bertrand takes a look back at the ...