Tag: history
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Jay Leno’s rides through 30 years of auto history
Jay Leno’s rides through 30 years of auto history – CBS News Watch CBS News Cruising through Los Angeles in an open-top sports car epitomizes the California dream. That’s why LA naturally became home to one of the world’s finest car collections, the Petersen Automotive Museum, now marking its 30th anniversary. For car enthusiast Jay…
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Why Ukrainian war reporter Andriy Tsaplienko says he’s on the “good side of history”
Ukrainian war reporter Andriy Tsaplienko hasn’t taken a day off since Russia invaded his home country. He sleeps around four hours a night and was wounded by shrapnel, yet has no plans of stopping his work. The war is personal to him and he makes no efforts to deny it. Tsaplienko views what he does…
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Why do we have the Electoral College? The history of and arguments against the institution
Until polls close on Election Day, millions of people across the United States are casting ballots for their preferred candidates to succeed President Biden in the White House. But determining the winner is not as simple as totaling up how many people voted for Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump, because of…
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See the full list of the youngest presidents in U.S. history
President Biden, 81, and former President Donald Trump, 78, have been the two oldest candidates to run for president, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re outliers. A look back at the list of former presidents shows the majority entered office much earlier in their political careers. Data assembled by CBS shows that most…
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Largest drug “super lab” in Canada’s history busted with record amount of fentanyl, chemicals and guns seized
Canadian police dismantled what they said Thursday is the largest, most sophisticated illicit drug “super lab” in the country, saying they had seized “a record number of illegal firearms, synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they believe organized crime ran the operation where there was mass-production and distribution of fentanyl…