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With the cooperation of the Anne Frank House, a novel based on Frank’s life immediately before she began keeping a diary will be released in September by the children’s publisher Scholastic. “When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary,” written by bestselling author Alice Hoffman, is scheduled for September 17. The project was initiated by Scholastic editors Lisa Sandell and Miriam Farbey, who thought Hoffman ideal for telling the story. Hoffman is known for “Practical Magic” and other fiction about sorcery, but she also has written books for young people and a novel, “The World...

When Sabine Thonke joined a recent demonstration in Berlin against Germany’s far-right party, it was the first time in years she felt hopeful that the growing power of the extremists in her country could be stopped. Thonke, 59, had been following the rise of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, with unease. But when she heard about a plan to deport millions of people, she felt called to action. “I never thought such inhuman ideas would be gaining popularity in Germany again. I thought we had learned the lessons from our past,” Thonke said. Many Germans believed their country...

Russia declared a “federal-level” emergency in the Kursk region following a large-scale incursion from Ukraine and sent reinforcements there on August 9, four days after hundreds of Ukrainian troops poured across the border in what appeared to be Kyiv’s biggest attack on Russian soil since the war began. Meanwhile, a Russian plane-launched missile slammed into a Ukrainian shopping mall in the middle of the day, killing at least 14 people and wounding 44 others, authorities said. The mall in Kostiantynivka, in the eastern Donetsk region, is located in the town’s residential area. Thick black smoke rose above it after...

“…There is no Republican Party anymore. There is Donald Trump, a convicted felon, and his cult of personality. The party of Trump is hellbent on attacking Americans. It’s the felonious Trump party that’s spreading false conspiracy theories about voter fraud, undermining our democracy and claiming they won in Wisconsin in 2020 — claims, by the way, that just landed three of Trump’s Wisconsin minions with criminal charges.” – J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois (June 9, 2024) During the August 8 episode of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” regular conservative commentator Charlie Sykes delivered a scathing critique of Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH)....