History

In 1984, the IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel in the seaside resort of Brighton, England, targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The bomb detonated on Oct. 12, 1984 — the aftermath is shown above.

Books
Arts

In 1984, Margaret Thatcher was nearly assassinated — a new book asks, what if?

4:53pm April 17, 2023

by Maureen Corrigan

The IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel, in the seaside resort of Brighton, targeting the British prime minister. There Will Be Fire, by journalist Rory Carroll, reads like a political thriller.

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The New York Times resumed publication of its series of articles based on the secret Pentagon Papers in its July 1, 1971 edition, after it was given the green light by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Politics & Government

The latest saga of revealed U.S. secrets stirs memories of past legendary leaks

8:35am April 15, 2023

by Ron Elving

Call them whistleblowers or traitors, call their actions conscientious or unconscionable, the people who decide on their own to share classified material have often altered the course of events.

Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia is celebrating 15 years together. They recently traveled to an estate in Baja California to record a new album with friends.

La Santa Cecilia celebrates its quinceañera with a new album

7:00am April 15, 2023

by Betto Arcos

Many of the songs on Cuatro Copas, Bohemia en la Finca Altozano are part the group's personal history, growing up in downtown LA, surrounded by Mexican musicians who taught them how to sing and play.

Arts

Actor John Leguizamo's new TV docuseries spotlights Latino culture

8:32am April 13, 2023

by Alice Woelfle

In the MSNBC series "Leguizamo Does America," actor John Leguizamo takes viewers on a trip across the United States in search of ways Latino communities have shaped the nation.

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What's the origin of the long-ago Swahili civilization? Genes offer a revealing answer

4:05pm April 12, 2023

by Joanne Silberner

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

Visitors look at an exhibition of South Korean soldiers' records from the Vietnam War at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul, Feb. 17.

World News

A Vietnam War massacre case from 1968 forces a new reckoning in South Korea

5:02am April 12, 2023

by Anthony Kuhn

A Vietnamese woman sued South Korea's government over a wartime massacre in her village by South Korean soldiers. A Seoul court recently ruled in her favor but the government will appeal the decision.

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KYIV, UKRAINE - FEBRUARY 21: A group of people hold signs at the front of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry during a protest calling for the European Union to impose additional sanctions against Russia on February 21, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Why sanctions don't work — but could if done right

1:24pm April 11, 2023

by Paddy Hirsch

Sanctions backfire. So why do we keep using them?

Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville gestures during a vote on his expulsion from the state legislature at the State Capitol Building on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn. Monday, the Nashville Metro Council voted to temporarily reinstate Jones to House District 52.

Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones returns to Capitol after Nashville Council reinstates him

11:32pm April 10, 2023

by Cynthia Abrams

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, who was expelled from the state House last week alongside former Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis, was reinstated to his seat Monday on an interim basis.

National

Navy ship with a Confederate name now honors Black Union Hero Robert Smalls instead

4:40pm April 10, 2023

by Quil Lawrence

The navy is renaming the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory. It will now be the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate ship.

World News

A hundred years later, a Welsh women's peace petition returns home

4:56pm April 07, 2023

A Welsh petition for world peace sat forgotten in the Smithsonian for nearly 100 years. This week, it finally returned to Wales for its signatures to be digitized and its history remembered.