By Ray Hill Edna Flannery Kelly spent 20 years in the U. S. House of Representatives, where she represented Brooklyn. Mrs. Kelly was the first woman to be elected to Congress from New York City and ma...
10.19.2026 Knoxfocus.comBackground In the aftermath of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, the government of Cuba under Fidel Castro sought a defense strategy against future American intervention. Concurrently, the Soviet ...
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The phone call came at an inconvenient time for McGeorge Bundy. The forty-three-year-old national security advisor was hosting a send-off dinner for the new U. S. ambassador to France, Charles “Chip” ...
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Where Trump converges with the Cornell 7. Listen To This Story When our secretary of “war, ” Pete Hegseth, announced that he was going to subject all male servicemen over 30 to a testosterone test, ap...
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( Tom Engelhardt Substack ) – Only recently, after a mere two decades of intermittent conflict (with three years off ), the last U. S. troops finally withdrew from… yes, can you believe it? … Iraq! Don’t be shocked, since we’re talking about a country significantly less than 7, 000 miles from our shores. Honestly, that’s next to nothing if you remember that, in my youth, the U. S. was fighting a 20-year-long war in Vietnam (and Laos and Cambodia) about 9, 000 miles from Washington, D. C. The con...
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