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RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Tony Bennett, whose interpretations of musical standards helped spread the American songbook around the world,…

“What we’re trying to do is present a history that’s not divisive,” said Erwan de la Villéon, the head of the park, which fails to mention certain aspects of Spain’s past, including the bloody conquest of America and Franco’s repressive rule.

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A Spanish theme park has drawn visitors with spectacular shows retracing glorious battles and conquests. But the park’s success also lies in what goes unsaid. https://t.co/nf0D3r93Vk

“I’m trying to get a full-time job, which has been a whirlwind. I’ve applied to over 50 jobs. In college I did a fair number of internships so this wouldn’t happen, but it’s still happening.” https://t.co/dshxejauWe

RT @mattyglesias: Dysfunctional pockets of local government in big cities get a lot of attention because they impact a lot of people and dr…

RT @voxdotcom: The fate of human telephone operators thrown out of work when call switching became automatic tells us something important a…

RT @NPRmelissablock: A 🧵, 38 years in the making. Today is my last day @NPR after, yep, nearly four decades. It's impossible to sum up what…

A woman in Michigan was struggling with her asthma amid the smoke from the wildfires in Canada: “I feel like I’m wearing a belt that’s too tight around my neck.” Follow live updates: https://t.co/rizwnU2wrR

RT @nytimesmusic: Lewis Capaldi announced on Tuesday that he would take a break from touring “for the foreseeable future,” including the re…

RT @nytimesarts: Britain’s National Portrait Gallery reopened Thursday after a three-year, $55-million renovation. https://t.co/XS44bKRU8W

RT @anushkapatil: Reporting from a rabbithole: Wendy Rush, OceanGate comms director and wife of CEO/pilot Stockton Rush, is the great-great…

RT @charlie_savage: How a quirky article on Pink Floyd & The Wizard of Oz that I wrote in 1995, as a 19 year old, helped foster one of the…

RT @NickAtNews: New: Years before its sub went missing in the Atlantic, OceanGate faced warnings from experts about its plan to launch a ne…

RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers and disclosed the secret history of American lies in Vietnam, h…

RT @USAinUK: Let’s be frank, we Americans don’t get cricket – so as the #Ashes begin, we tested our colleagues' knowledge. Trigger warning…

Consumer prices in Sweden fell last month from the month before, but not as much as expected. The start of Beyoncé’s world tour, in Stockholm, might have had an effect. https://t.co/3iwzk5WXdu By @eshelouise