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Netanyahu claims Hamas burned alive babies, says he showed pics to Blinken

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Explore More Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared distressing photos Thursday of babies killed during the slaughter by Hamas terrorists — including a pair completely charred after seemingly being burned while in an embrace. “Here are some of the photos Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken,” his office said alongside the distressing images. The gruesome photos showed tiny, mangled bodies and a blurred-out infant in a bloody onesie. Read More...

Post Opinin to publish Spanish-language coronavirus newsletter

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[Leer en español] Post Opinión, the Spanish-language opinions section of The Washington Post, will adapt its newsletter to focus on the coronavirus, starting Thursday, March 26. Released Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday each week, the newsletter will curate headlines on the pandemic and provide timely commentary from local voices across Latin America, Spain and elsewhere on the way covid-19 is impacting regional communities. “As we continue to see how this unprecedented event affects lives globally, we want to offer a quick digest of reliable reporting and notable perspectives that will help readers understand the way their governments and institutions are responding, the local health and economic impacts, and the emerging science on this strain of the virus,” said Eli Lopez, Senior Global Opinions Editor. Read More...

Who is to blame for first shot?

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Lonnie Bunch Founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture The notion that Abraham Lincoln purposely provoked the Civil War by attempting to resupply Fort Sumter in April 1861 became a cornerstone of the reinterpretation of the Civil War after the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865. Most notably, the memoirs of the president and vice president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Read More...