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Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans

Donald Trump · United States

Law used to kick out Nazis could be used to strip citizenship from many more Americans

57% Center coverage: 21 sources

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts. That power, under the new Trump administration, may be broadening. According to a memo issued by the Justice Department last…See the Story

George Takei Is 88 Years Old and Will Never Stop Fighting for Equality

Donald Trump · United States

George Takei Is 88 Years Old and Will Never Stop Fighting for Equality

75% Center coverage: 12 sources

CNN By Lisa Respers France and Audie Cornish, CNN (CNN) — George Takei has a very personal view about current US immigration enforcement efforts. The “Star Trek” star appeared on an episode of Audie Cornish’s podcast “The Assignment” to promote his new graphic memoir, “It Rhymes With Takei.” He talked about being held as a five-year-old child with his family in an internment camp for Japanese Americans by the US government during World War II. T…See the Story

Hitler's Austrian hometown to rename two streets named after prominent Nazi party members

Austria Politics · Austria

Hitler's Austrian hometown to rename two streets named after prominent Nazi party members

38% Left coverage: 8 sources

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UK Distances New MI6 Chief From Nazi Past

Low coverage from Left Sources

UK Distances New MI6 Chief From Nazi Past

China Perplexes South Korea by Asking to Attend War Ceremony

Low coverage from Right Sources

China Perplexes South Korea by Asking to Attend War Ceremony

U.S. Coast Guard Ends Use of WWII-Era Numbered Districts

75% Center coverage: 4 sources

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday that it will replace all the hard-to-remember numerical designations of its operational districts with geogra...World War II · Tillamook See the Story

India Will Soon Be World's Third Largest Economy: PM Modi In Ghana

80% Right coverage: 5 sources

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that over the past decade, India has seen a major transformation across the spectrum, and on the foundations of stable polity and good governance, the country will soon be the world's third-largest economNarendra Modi · India See the Story

The Lady of the Lighthouse

A World War II Great Lakes Thriller. A pirate, a Great Lakes shipping captain, a dashing Italian spy, and the lonely, pregnant young mother who loved them all. Loralei Lancaster, a lonely, pregnant young mother and lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes is caught up in a WWII espionage plot while waiting for her shipping-captain husband, Devon, to return from a Great Lakes voyage. When a dashing, Italian spy posing as a down-and-out art dealer and…World War II · Michigan Read Article

The 'gritty' WW2 film with major British A-lister hailed a 'modern masterpiece'

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

This gripping WW2 film tells the true story of a real war hero who refused to arm himself - and viewers are impressedWorld War II · United Kingdom Read Article

Revenge, Murder and Zombies in 3 New Horror Novels

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

With a Vengeance by Riley Sager Sager’s WITH A VENGEANCE (Dutton, 382 pp., $30) is many things at once: a fast-paced thriller, a locked-room mystery and a violent tale of revenge. Back in 1942, during World War II, Anna Matheson’s brother died when a train transporting American troops preparing to ship abroad exploded. It wasn’t an accident. The train’s engine was intentionally constructed with shoddy materials to turn it into a deadly bomb. Ann…World War II · Philadelphia Read Article

Eighty Years Ago, N.D. Native Photographed Liberation of Nazi Camps with Eisenhower

Coverage: 2 sources

Eighty years ago, as World War II was coming to an end, Allied forces uncovered the horror the Nazis had tried to hide. As troops liberated concentration camps across Europe in 1945, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted on documenting everything. “Get it all on record now,” he said, “get the films, get the witnesses, because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say this never happened.” And right there with him — camera…World War II See the Story

A Capable Female Lawyer Disillusions Men in the Last Blockbuster of the World War Ii Era

In the next episode of Widescreen History, the 1944 film This Happened in Budapest will be analyzed. Hamza D. Ákos's last film in the shadow of war, a hilarious farewell to an era.World War II · Budapest Read Article

40 years of keeping alive the history of Canada's WWII 'pilot maker'

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

A group operating out of Tillsbonburg Regional Airport is celebrating 40 years of keeping alive the Harvard aircraft, a plane that formed the backbone of the program to train pilots in the years up to and during the Second World War.Aircraft · London Read Article

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