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Trump on past presidents: Ike was 'underrated,' FDR 'amazing,' Polk 'sort of a real-estate guy'

Read full article: Trump on past presidents: Ike was 'underrated,' FDR 'amazing,' Polk 'sort of a real-estate guy'

President Donald Trump has shared his unique takes on past presidents and their portraits while discussing his White House redecorating efforts.

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Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president

Read full article: Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.

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‘America can change’: Community gathers for Juneteenth celebration in Jacksonville

Read full article: ‘America can change’: Community gathers for Juneteenth celebration in Jacksonville

Community leaders and performers gathered at the Jacksonville Main Library’s Hicks Auditorium Tuesday evening for an early Juneteenth celebration.

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In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants' fight for recognition and citizenship

Read full article: In Oklahoma, Juneteenth highlights tribal slavery descendants' fight for recognition and citizenship

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the following year, 1866.

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Juneteenth celebrations adapt after corporate sponsors pull support

Read full article: Juneteenth celebrations adapt after corporate sponsors pull support

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

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A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it

Read full article: A guide to what the Juneteenth holiday is and how to celebrate it

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

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Trump's military parade is a US outlier in peacetime but parades and reviews have a long history

Read full article: Trump's military parade is a US outlier in peacetime but parades and reviews have a long history

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans.

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Juneteenth started with handbills proclaiming freedom. Here's what they said

Read full article: Juneteenth started with handbills proclaiming freedom. Here's what they said

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.

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A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify them

Read full article: A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify them

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

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Kristi Noem says habeas corpus lets Trump 'remove people from this country'

Read full article: Kristi Noem says habeas corpus lets Trump 'remove people from this country'

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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There's an American pope, and he's just like us. At least, we really, really want him to be

Read full article: There's an American pope, and he's just like us. At least, we really, really want him to be

Popes -- they’re just like us.

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The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president

Read full article: The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president

Donald Trump's administration says it's the most transparent in history.

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City celebrates Emancipation Celebration Day 2025 at James Weldon Johnson Park

Read full article: City celebrates Emancipation Celebration Day 2025 at James Weldon Johnson Park

Councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman, the Ritz Theater & Museum and the City of Jacksonville hosted the fifth annual Jacksonville Emancipation Celebration at Lift Ev’re Voice and Sing Park on Saturday.

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Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?

Read full article: Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?

Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.

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America’s long history of ‘checks and balances’ is being tested by Trump like rarely before

Read full article: America’s long history of ‘checks and balances’ is being tested by Trump like rarely before

The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.

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'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Maybe Happy Ending' lead Tony Award nominations

Read full article: 'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Maybe Happy Ending' lead Tony Award nominations

Three Broadway shows — “Buena Vista Social Club,” “Death Becomes Her” and “Maybe Happy Ending” — each earned a leading 10 Tony Award nominations Thursday.

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Lovefest or Cabinet meeting? For Donald Trump, it's both

Read full article: Lovefest or Cabinet meeting? For Donald Trump, it's both

Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes at the end of President Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting that the U.S. has brought home 47 wrongfully detained Americans so far in Trump’s second term.

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White House journalists use annual press dinner to celebrate First Amendment

Read full article: White House journalists use annual press dinner to celebrate First Amendment

There was no president.

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State Department wants staff to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias during Biden's term

Read full article: State Department wants staff to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias during Biden's term

As the Christian world commemorates Holy Week leading up to Easter Sunday, the State Department has issued an appeal for its employees to report instances of alleged anti-Christian bias, including actions taken for opposition to vaccines or personal pronoun choice, that may have occurred during former President Joe Biden’s administration.

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Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning

Read full article: Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

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Hegseth beefs up warship presence in the Middle East and will have 2 aircraft carriers in the region

Read full article: Hegseth beefs up warship presence in the Middle East and will have 2 aircraft carriers in the region

A U.S. official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is beefing up the Navy warship presence in the Middle East, ordering two aircraft carriers to be there next month as the U.S. increases strikes on Yemen-based Houthi rebels.

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Trump's next first speech to Congress is bound to have little resemblance to his last first one

Read full article: Trump's next first speech to Congress is bound to have little resemblance to his last first one

When President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his words are bound to be far different from when he addressed lawmakers at the beginning of his first term.

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Parents and kids navigate talks of loss and tragedy as they return home after LA area fires

Read full article: Parents and kids navigate talks of loss and tragedy as they return home after LA area fires

When 11-year-old Ceiba Phillips returned to his Southern California neighborhood a month after the devastating Eaton fire, he couldn’t believe his eyes.

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George has his day, and so does Abe. But states honor US presidents in lots of ways

Read full article: George has his day, and so does Abe. But states honor US presidents in lots of ways

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

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'Remarkably poor judgment': Wall Street Journal takes a critical eye to start of Trump's 2nd term

Read full article: 'Remarkably poor judgment': Wall Street Journal takes a critical eye to start of Trump's 2nd term

Not every outlet popular with conservative readers is cheerleading for President Donald Trump.

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From Carter's funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history

Read full article: From Carter's funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history

Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.

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How American presidents have planned their own funerals

Read full article: How American presidents have planned their own funerals

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will feature an interstate choreography of grief, ceremony and logistics that is characteristic of state funerals.

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Taking a look back at 2024’s weirdest, wackiest viral moments

Read full article: Taking a look back at 2024’s weirdest, wackiest viral moments

We’re taking a look back at 2024’s craziest, kookiest, and most confounding stories, including a melted statue of Abraham Lincoln, a guy body-slamming an Orca, and a woodpecker playing ding-dong-ditch.

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This is how Secret Service protection has changed for presidents over the years

Read full article: This is how Secret Service protection has changed for presidents over the years

As the world has vastly changed, so has protection for presidents since the days when the public could come to the White House to meet Abraham Lincoln.

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VP Kamala Harris to deliver remarks ahead of Juneteenth celebration

Read full article: VP Kamala Harris to deliver remarks ahead of Juneteenth celebration

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities.

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The Library of Congress wants more visitors. Spider-Man, Santana and Lincoln are on deck

Read full article: The Library of Congress wants more visitors. Spider-Man, Santana and Lincoln are on deck

The Library of Congress is unveiling an eclectic new exhibit drawing on the institution’s vast historical archives and designed to make the Library a more popular and accessible destination for visitors and tourists.

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The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona's abortion ban

Read full article: The Civil War raged and fortune-seekers hunted for gold. This era produced Arizona's abortion ban

The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving in, dueling had to be regulated and settlers were increasingly encroaching on tribal lands.

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'Manhunt,' about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class

Read full article: 'Manhunt,' about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class

A new series on Apple TV+, premiering Friday, tells the lesser-known aspects of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on the pursuit of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

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What does Watch Night mean for Black Americans today? It dates back to the Emancipation Proclamation

Read full article: What does Watch Night mean for Black Americans today? It dates back to the Emancipation Proclamation

The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, during the Civil War.

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An Abe Lincoln photo made during his 1858 ascendancy has been donated to his museum in Springfield

Read full article: An Abe Lincoln photo made during his 1858 ascendancy has been donated to his museum in Springfield

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained an original 1858 photograph of the future president with an interesting backstory.

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Rare tickets to Ford’s Theatre on the night Lincoln was assassinated auction for $262,500

Read full article: Rare tickets to Ford’s Theatre on the night Lincoln was assassinated auction for $262,500

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500.

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Jacksonville’s Emancipation Celebration festival returns to James Weldon Johnson Park

Read full article: Jacksonville’s Emancipation Celebration festival returns to James Weldon Johnson Park

The festival honoring Emancipation Celebration Day in Jacksonville has become an annual tradition for James Weldon Johnson Park.

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How did Black History Month come to be?

Read full article: How did Black History Month come to be?

It all started with one week in 1926, when one organization chose the second week of February to promote the achievements by Black Americans and other people of African descent.

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Liz Cheney in 2024? Deep skepticism emerges in key states

Read full article: Liz Cheney in 2024? Deep skepticism emerges in key states

Liz Cheney is openly considering a presidential run.

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The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’

Read full article: The long, ongoing debate over ‘All men are created equal’

“All men are created equal.”.

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Afrofuturism and the Black Metaverse

Read full article: Afrofuturism and the Black Metaverse

The celebration of Juneteenth is a historic event that changed the scope of life for African slaves. Finally receiving freedom that was provided by Abraham Lincoln through the Emancipation Proclamation. It was not for some time that slaves in Texas and other parts of this nation realized that they were legally free as Union soldiers spread the word as they traveled across the land.

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Experts pull documents, money from Lee statue time capsule

Read full article: Experts pull documents, money from Lee statue time capsule

Conservation experts in Virginia’s capital pulled books, money, ammunition, documents and other artifacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

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Virginia hopes to remove time capsule along with Lee statue

Read full article: Virginia hopes to remove time capsule along with Lee statue

If a court clears the way, the state of Virginia will not just remove a soaring statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.

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Push to recognize end of slavery as Florida state holiday continues

Read full article: Push to recognize end of slavery as Florida state holiday continues

On this day 156 years ago, the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud in Florida’s capital city, officially ending slavery in the state.

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These farmers are trying to make farming more accessible for Black people

Read full article: These farmers are trying to make farming more accessible for Black people

There is a saying for African Americans wanting their chance at the American dream with their own land and home. Fast forward to 2021: According to 2012 Census of Agriculture, African Americans make up less than 2% of all farmers in the United States. The 1920s, just decades after the end of slavery, there were 900,000 black farmersAccording to the 2012 Agriculture Census there were only 44,629 black farmers in the United States, only 1.4% of the 3.2 million farmers in the country. “Tradition and historically, because the decline has been huge from black farmers in the ’70s and ’80s to now, from starting the late to early 2000s its been a huge declineThere’s also been a history of discrimination against black farmers. So for the many African Americans that are no longer in farming, this family hopes they will be apart of the resurgence.

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JFK's Harvard sweater sold at auction for more than $85,000

Read full article: JFK's Harvard sweater sold at auction for more than $85,000

This undated photo released by RR Auction shows a Harvard University letter sweater that once belonged to former President John F. Kennedy, up for auction between Feb. 11-18, 2021, by the Boston-based auction firm. (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP)BOSTON – John F. Kennedy's Harvard University sweater, given away to a television cameraman who mentioned that he was chilly while interviewing Jacqueline Kennedy, has sold at auction for more than $85,000. The crimson wool cardigan, featuring a large black block-letter “H” and eight white mother-of-pearl buttons, was one of several mementos from U.S. presidents sold during a President's Day auction that ended Thursday, according to Boston-based RR Auction. AdJFK's Harvard sweater, with his surname sewn into the collar, was acquired by Herman Lang, a CBS cameraman who filmed an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy in 1964, the year after the 35th president's assassination in Dallas. It is believed that because the interview was outdoors, Lang mentioned that he was cold and was offered the sweater, according to RR Auction.

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10 things you didn’t know about our country’s past presidents

Read full article: 10 things you didn’t know about our country’s past presidents

Here are some fun facts about 10 U.S. presidents.

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Tell us: What does Black History Month mean to you?

Read full article: Tell us: What does Black History Month mean to you?

We want to know: What does Black History Month mean to you? Did you talk about it, growing up? Did you attend events? We want to hear, in your words, about your experience with the month.

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Florida city will recognize May 20 as slave emancipation day

Read full article: Florida city will recognize May 20 as slave emancipation day

FILE - This Feb. 18, 2005, file photo shows the original Emancipation Proclamation on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington. President Abraham Lincoln first issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves free in Confederate territory on Sept. 22, 1862. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)LAKELAND, Fla. – A Florida city is planning to formally recognize May 20 as the date slaves were emancipated in the state. The city commission plans to approve a resolution Monday declaring May 20 as Florida Emancipation Day, The Ledger in Lakeland reported. Lakeland commissioner Philip Walker says there are efforts around Florida to have cities and counties recognize May 20 as the date of slave emancipation in the state.

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Unity has long been a theme, and anxiety, for new presidents

Read full article: Unity has long been a theme, and anxiety, for new presidents

(AP Photo, File)NEW YORK – When Joe Biden addresses the country for the first time as president, his inaugural speech is likely to echo calls for unity that predecessors have invoked since the first time George Washington was sworn in. Unity has since been a theme, and an anxiety, for many incoming presidents, who have faced economic and social crises and moments when the very future of the U.S. was in doubt. “Unity has always been an aspiration," says presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. But when we have domestic turmoil we use the word unity.”The United States was forged through compromise among factions that disagreed profoundly on slavery, regional influence and the relative powers of state and federal government. “A president often claims the country is ‘united’ behind a belief when it’s more wishful thinking than reality,” Widmer says.

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Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston

Read full article: Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston

FILE - In this June 25, 2020, file photo, a statue that depicts a freed slave kneeling at President Abraham Lincoln's feet rests on a pedestal in Boston. On Tuesday, Dec. 29, the statue that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice was removed from its perch. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)A statue of Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet — optics that drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice — has been removed from its perch in downtown Boston. The copy was installed in Boston because the city was home to the statue’s white creator, Thomas Ball. Freed Black donors paid for the original in Washington; white politician and circus showman Moses Kimball financed the copy in Boston.

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Farm Share distributes 68,000 pounds of food Saturday

Read full article: Farm Share distributes 68,000 pounds of food Saturday

Dozens of volunteers loaded cars with food from Farm Share at Legacy Ministries in Arlington Saturday morning. There was also a third farm share event at Abyssina Missionary Baptist Church on the Northside. FarmShare is hosting one more food distribution event before Christmas: 10 a.m. Tuesday at Bethel Baptist Church just north of FSCJ Downtown Campus. Farm Share was established in 1991 with the idea of distributing fresh food to families, children and seniors who need it free of charge. Farm share says since the beginning of March its distributed nearly 81 million meals to Florida residents.

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US lawmakers unveil anti-slavery constitutional amendment

Read full article: US lawmakers unveil anti-slavery constitutional amendment

FILE - This Nov. 29, 2011, file photo shows the signature of president Abraham Lincoln on a rare, restored copy of the 13th Amendment that ended slavery, in Chicago. As ratified, the original amendment has permitted exploitation of labor by convicted felons for over 155 years since the abolition of slavery. Constitutional amendments are rare and require approval by two-thirds of the House and Senate, as well as ratification by three-quarters of state legislatures. In Merkley’s Oregon, voters in 2002 approved the elimination of constitutional language that prohibited Black Americans from living in the state unless they were enslaved. The prevalence of prison labor has been largely accepted as a means for promoting rehabilitation, teaching trade skills and reducing idleness among prisoners.

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Lock of Lincoln's hair and bloodied telegram up for auction

Read full article: Lock of Lincoln's hair and bloodied telegram up for auction

This July 2020 photo released by RR Auction shows a lock of hair from former President Abraham Lincoln, to be auctioned Sept. 12, 2020, by the Boston-based auction firm. (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP)This is one macabre auction: A lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination, is up for sale. The auction house set the minimum bid at $10,000 but expects the lock and telegram to fetch $75,000 or more, spokesman Mike Graff said. The hair is mounted on an official War Department telegram sent to Dr. Todd by George Kinnear, his assistant in the Lexington, Kentucky, post office. The telegram is evidence to disprove the misinformation and conspiracy theories in the Lincoln assassination, Graff said.

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Nearly 1 in 4 VA employees report sex harassment, audit says

Read full article: Nearly 1 in 4 VA employees report sex harassment, audit says

The VA is not the same VA as four years ago, insisted acting VA deputy secretary Pam Powers, pointing to increased outreach to women and improved trust ratings in the VA from employees and patients alike according to internal polling. His effort seeks to reinforce a call by top Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committee last week for a faster timeline. About 1 in 3 VA employees said they witnessed an act of sexual harassment. Overall, an estimated 26% of female and 14% of male VA employees experienced harassment during the two-year period. A study released by the VA last year found 1 in 4 women veterans using VA health care reported inappropriate comments by male veterans on VA grounds, raising concerns they may delay or miss their treatments.

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Facts about 5 past U.S. presidents that will blow your mind

Read full article: Facts about 5 past U.S. presidents that will blow your mind

It’s not all about policies, campaigning and fighting with other politicians.

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Facts about 5 past U.S. presidents that will blow your mind

Read full article: Facts about 5 past U.S. presidents that will blow your mind

It’s not all about policies, campaigning and fighting with other politicians.

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