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Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott says he is ending his 2024 bid for president in a move that surprised his donors and stunned his campaign staff.

In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was not technically the end of the war, which came with the Treaty of Versailles. Leaders signed that treaty on June 28, 1919, five years to the day after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off the conflict. But the armistice declared on November 11 held, and Armistice Day became popularly known as the day “The Great War,” which killed at least 40 million people, ended.

The details of the following story are taken from this book by Thomas McInnis, a political science professor at the University of Arkansas: (Also, the story was all over the news.) Remember those anthrax attacks just after the attack on September 11, 2001? The federal investigation into those attacks took investigators to hundreds of scientists … The Fourth Amendment and Criminal Investigations Read More »

On Veterans' Day, nonagenarian Paul Zolbrod, a Korean War era vet, reminisces about the lasting changes that time period brought about in his life.