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Steve Bannon, who guided Donald Trump's "America First" campaign in 2016, is trying to do the same now on an even bigger scale: promoting nationalist-populist parties in many of the 28 countries that begin voting Thursday in elections for the European Parliament.

23 May 2019 3:12pm GMT

President Trump gave Libyan General Haftar the go-ahead to carry out a military campaign marked by atrocities. It's a battle that may transform Libya into a humanitarian catastrophe on the level of Yemen or Syria.

23 May 2019 2:45pm GMT

President Trump on Thursday lashed out at Rex Tillerson after the former secretary of state reportedly told members of Congress that Russian President Vladimir Putin out-prepared Trump for their first meeting in Germany.

23 May 2019 1:34pm GMT

If you've never heard of Bettye LaVette, the soul singer who belted out "A Change Is Gonna Come" with Jon Bon Jovi at the Inauguration Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan 18., you may be wondering why.

23 Jan 2009 10:46pm GMT

Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis - but Geoff Nunberg was.

23 Jan 2009 2:10pm GMT

Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Native Guard. Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway's poetry often draws on her childhood as a biracial child in the south.

20 Jan 2009 8:24pm GMT