Articles by NBC News
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Team Hawaiian Kingdom? Activists Want Some U.S. Olympians to Surf for a Different Homeland
Claire Wang | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – After decades of whitewashing, Hawai’i sovereignty activists say, the effort is part of an attempt to reclaim the sport’s cultural and spiritual importance in its place of birth.
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On Anniversary of MLK’s Death, His Words Are ‘More Relevant’ than Ever, His Son Says
Erik Ortiz | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Apr 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Five decades later, his family says in a new video, he can help “guide humanity in the right direction.”
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NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Touches Down on the Red Planet
Denise Chow | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
18 Feb 2021 – NASA kicked off a new era of Mars exploration today with the successful landing of Perseverance, a car-size robotic explorer that will search for traces of ancient life on the planet and collect what could be the first rocky samples from Mars that are sent back to Earth.
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Trump Acquitted in Senate Impeachment Trial for Second Time
NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – The Senate yesterday acquitted former President Donald Trump in a 57-43 vote in his second impeachment trial. The House impeached Trump last month on a charge of incitement of insurrection in the deadly attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. Seven Republican senators voted in favor of conviction, short of the 67 total votes needed to bar Trump from running for public office again.
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Trump’s Pardons of Rod Blagojevich and Others Meant to Convince America Corruption Is OK
Barbara McQuade – NBC News,
2 Mar 2020
20 Feb 2020 – The list of 11 lucky Americans granted clemency read like a who’s who of the rich and the famous — former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr., Wall Street financier Michael Milken and former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik among them. Many of the offenders who received pardons or commutations of their sentences were convicted of crimes relating to fraud and corruption.
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Trump Extends Travel Ban to Six Countries — But Is OK with Selling Arms to Them
A. Trevor Thrall and Jordan Cohen – NBC News,
3 Feb 2020
31 Jan 2020 – The Trump administration announced today that it is adding six new countries to the existing travel ban, joining the seven already on the list. If these places are so threatening, the U.S. shouldn’t continue to give their governments the very weapons that can make them even more unsafe.
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Scientists Find Australian Wildfire Smoke Has Circled the Globe
Natasha Roy – NBC News,
20 Jan 2020
A NOAA/NASA satellite traced the movement of the smoke from the wildfires and produced an image Monday [13 Jan] showing it circumnavigated the globe and areas in Australia where it had reached its place of origin.
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Carbon Dioxide in Earth’s Atmosphere Reaches Record High, Researchers Say
Denise Chow – NBC News,
2 Dec 2019
25 Nov 2019 – The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has reached a record high, according to a report released today by the World Meteorological Organization. Carbon dioxide traps heat from the sun and can linger in the atmosphere for centuries.
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The Amazon Rainforests Are on Fire – Brazil’s Trump-Like President, Jair Bolsonaro, Is to Blame
Bill McKibben – NBC News,
26 Aug 2019
22 Aug 2019 – São Paulo is the largest city in the western hemisphere — and Tuesday [20 Aug] it was also the most hellish. Around two in the afternoon, the sky turned suddenly and ominously dark, almost as if the sun had been eclipsed by a pall of smoke from the burning rainforests of Brazil’s Amazon. The new Brazilian leader called himself “Captain Chainsaw” and mocked environmentalists who feared his pro-clearance policies could decimate the Amazon.
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Chelsea Manning Jailed for Refusing to Testify Before Grand Jury in Virginia
Pete Williams and Elisha Fieldstadt – NBC News,
11 Mar 2019
8 Mar 2019 – Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed today after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia looking into the release of documents to WikiLeaks. Manning will remain in custody until she agrees to testify or until the grand jury ends its work.
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Notre Dame University to Cover Christopher Columbus Murals
NBC News | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 — The University of Notre Dame will cover murals in a campus building that depict Christopher Columbus in America, following criticism that the images depict Native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. The 12 murals created in the 1880s by Luis Gregori were intended to encourage immigrants who had come to the U.S. during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment.
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India Unveils World’s Tallest Statue, Twice the Size of the Statue of Liberty
Elisha Fieldstadt and Reuters – NBC News,
5 Nov 2018
31 Oct 2018 – The tallest statue in the world, twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, honoring Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first deputy prime minister, was unveiled today. Funds for the $400-million, 597-foot steel and bronze “Statue of Unity,” which used 7,416,080 cubic feet of cement, 25,000 tons of steel and 1,700 tons of bronze, came from the federal government, state-run companies and other institutions.
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U.S. Military Project Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn
NBC News | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
4 Oct 2018 – A research arm of the U.S. military is exploring the possibility of deploying insects to make plants more resilient by altering their genes. Some experts say the work may be seen as a potential biological weapon.
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Monsanto Concealed Effects of Toxic Chemical for Decades, Ohio Attorney General Alleges
Tim Stelloh – NBC News,
12 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018 – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine sued agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday [5 Mar], alleging the company concealed dangers posed by a toxic chemical compound it manufactured for nearly a half century. The company should pay for the clean-up of what it says are dozens of rivers, lakes and other water bodies contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
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James Rainey – NBC News,
7 Aug 2017
3 Aug 2017 – Though the newcomers are from many countries, some told journalists they were Haitian and felt less welcome in America after President Donald Trump said in May that protective status for those who fled a massive 2010 earthquake could be withdrawn, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
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Mac William Bishop – NBC News,
13 Mar 2017
10 Mar 2017 — Figures in camouflage and ski masks gather at a fishing lodge. Many are armed with long knives, bayonets and hatchets. The 35 men and women are on the hunt in Strandzha Massif, a forested mountain range on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Migrants trying to cross into Europe are their prey.
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Maggie Fox – NBC News,
15 Jun 2015
What Is MERS? And Other Questions about the Outbreak
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Arata Yamamoto - NBC News,
2 Mar 2015
25 Feb 2015 – The operator of Japan’s tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant admitted it failed to report a radioactive rainwater leak from the facility for about 10 months.
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NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
Germans were confronted with images of their country’s dark past on Monday [8 Sep 2014] night, when German public broadcaster ZDF showed video of Ukrainian soldiers with Nazi symbols on their helmets in its evening newscast.
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Robert Windrem, Investigative Producer, NBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2013
From the White House to the halls of Congress, U.S. government officials have responded to the death of Nelson Mandela with a hail of testimonials to the late South African president’s leadership in the struggle for freedom and human rights. Until five years ago, however, the U.S. officially considered Mandela a terrorist.
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Richard Engel - NBC News,
10 Jun 2013
Former drone operator Brandon Bryant says he felt like he became a “heartless” “sociopath” under the drone program. He remembers watching one of the first victims bleed to death and coming to work, seeing pictures of targeted individuals on the wall and musing, “Which one of these f_____s is going to die today?”
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Stephanie Woodard, 100Reporters – NBC News,
15 Oct 2012
In pockets of the United States, suicide among Native American youth is 9 to 19 times as frequent as among other youths, and rising. From Arizona to Alaska, tribes are declaring states of emergency and setting up crisis-intervention teams. “It feels like wartime,” said Diane Garreau, a child-welfare official on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation, in South Dakota. “I’ll see one of our youngsters one day, then find out a couple of days later she’s gone. Our children are self-destructing.”
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