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Trump denies FEMA disaster relief to Wisconsin to rebuild infrastructure damaged in August flooding
Oct 25, 2025
Donald Trump has denied Wisconsin’s request for federal public assistance to repair infrastructure...
Sae Iino: How a cultural ambassador hopes to build bridges between the people of Milwaukee and Japan
Sep 26, 2025
When Sae Iino left her hometown in Saitama Prefecture to study in Thailand, she knew the next...
Ukraine’s AI drones are reshaping modern warfare as precision strikes outpace traditional artillery
Oct 24, 2025
As a Russian soldier slips out from the tree line, a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone detects...
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News rating services aim to classify reporting bias but risk distorting the role of journalism
Oct 14, 2025
Rating services like Ad Fontes and Ground News offer public guidance, but critics say they...
Faith without compassion: Exposing the false religion of America’s right-wing Christianity
Oct 12, 2025
Across much of the United States, a movement calling itself Christian has grown louder, richer,...
Why the political arguments used by conservatives to twist the Second Amendment are a public fraud
Nov 4, 2025
For decades, conservatives in America have shouted that the Second Amendment exists to protect...
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Polarized beliefs: Study finds that TikTok is creating political echo chambers among its users
Nov 6, 2025
By Zicheng Cheng, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications, University of Arizona People on...
Republican policies in the 1920s set the stage for the Great Depression and echo in Trump era economics
Oct 30, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their...
The same fear machine driving Republican loyalty to Trump could become the weapon that ends his control
Oct 29, 2025
Trump and his people, with all their strut and swagger, want you to think he’s the most powerful...
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Thousands attending EAA AirVenture 2025 welcome Vietnam veterans on the Yellow Ribbon Honor Flight
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As part of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh’s annual tribute to U.S. military members, 100 Vietnam War veterans were honored with a Yellow Ribbon Honor Flight to Washington DC on July 25. The mission, now in its 11th year at the aviation convention, provided a no-cost visit to national memorials and a public welcome home decades after their service.