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Mothers, nurses, soldiers and deportees - these women fought against persecution for freedom and survival amid the turbulence of world war II.

The story of the first Irish bobsleigh team to take part in the Olympics.

This week marks 80 years since the first use of nuclear weapons in war, when the United States dropped a pair of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in the bombings. Many died instantly, and many others died more slowly from severe burns and radiation sickness. Some estimates put the combined death toll over 250,000 killed. We speak with veteran journalist Greg Mitchell, whose new documentary, streaming at PBS.org and airing on PBS, reexamines a remarkable episode in the ... continua

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Just days after President Trump threatened to wage war on the city of Chicago, ICE launched what it called “Operation Midway Blitz,” and President Trump claimed the city was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR” — a reference to his order to rename the Department of Defense. On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume indiscriminate immigration raids in Los Angeles. “Donald Trump is targeting Los Angeles and California because this is a city and a state in which multiculturalism and ethnic diversity have ... continua

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Agosto 1918. In piena prima guerra mondiale, due giovani soldati si ritrovano a combattere sul fronte occidentale accanto a un leggendario guerriero Anishinaabe. Tra bombardamenti, disperazione e atti di eroismo, la sopravvivenza diventa una sfida estrema. Un viaggio brutale nell'inferno delle trincee.

The Trump administration is attempting to revoke a landmark rule that allows the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars, power plants and other sources under the authority of the Clean Air Act. For over a decade, what is known as the “endangerment finding” has been one of the most important legal underpinnings in the federal effort to combat climate change. Since it was instituted, says David Doniger of the Natural Resources Defense Council, “we’ve made a lot of progress” in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “But ... continua

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Sam inizia a lavorare in un vecchio negozio di ferramenta, ma ben presto si accorge che dietro l’apparente normalità si nasconde un terribile segreto. Tra incubi e presenze inquietanti, sarà costretto ad affrontare orrori che vanno oltre la realtà.

“Firearms are the number one killer of our kids in America. That’s a uniquely American problem.” Two children, aged 8 and 10, were killed Wednesday when a former student fired dozens of shots through the stained-glass church windows at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Seventeen other people were injured. We speak to Kris Brown, president of the gun violence prevention organization Brady, about what she characterizes as the “solvable” issue of mass gun violence and how right-wing policymakers and their pro-gun policies are making “all of us far ... continua

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Una centrale nucleare sotto attacco. Una corsa contro il tempo per evitare la catastrofe. In un’America sull’orlo del collasso, una serie di eventi mette in pericolo milioni di vite. Tra tensione crescente e atti estremi, la verità esplode.

Un viaggio dietro le quinte dell'industria cinematografica, che mette in luce il coraggio e la determinazione delle donne che hanno sfidato le convenzioni per realizzare le scene d'azione più spettacolari di Hollywood