You might be surprised by when the bald eagle became our national bird
“For nearly 250 years, we called the bald eagle the national bird when it wasn’t,” said Jack Davis, co-chair of the National Bird Initiative for the National Eagle Center, in a news release. “But now ...
American bald eagles are having a moment, ecologically and culturally
The birds have been in an environmental updraft since the early 2000s, when the U.S. government took them off its endangered ...
Don’t criticize Chiefs name, diversify: Let’s add the Samurai and the Tuskegee Airmen | Opinion
Maybe the answer to Native American symbols and team names isn’t less ethnicity, but more and better. From David Mastio: ...
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Go Birds! American bald eagles are having a moment, ecologically and culturally (PHOTOS)
Along the long road from American icon to endangered species and back again, the bald eagle — national bird of the United ...
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Finally, the bald eagle is our national bird. Here is the history of the symbol
The bald eagle became the United States ... or threatened until 2007. But once Americans stopped hunting and poisoning their erstwhile national symbol, they rebounded quickly, with more than ...
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The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans
The life expectancy among Native Americans in the western United States has dropped below 64 years, close to life expectancies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Haiti. For many Asian ...
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Taliban says 2 Americans freed in prisoner swap with U.S., and Ryan Corbett's family says he's one of them
Islamabad, Pakistan — A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime saw two Americans freed in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California ...
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Afghan Taliban member freed from US custody in exchange for two Americans, Kabul says
Released Afghan was a member of Taliban found guilty of narco-terrorism charges: U.S. DOJ records Ryan Corbett, NGO worker, detained in Afghanistan in 2022, among released Americans: family ...
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The Americans still playing at the 2025 Australian Open
The 2024 major season ended with two Americans -- Taylor Fritz and Jessica Pegula-- playing for the singles titles at the US Open. Their collective success, as well as that of other Americans ...
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‘American Primeval’: How this Native American historian reconciles hard history with the storytelling of Hollywood
As a Native American elder, a historian and storyteller, I spent much of my life sharing the truths about the past, even when they are painful. I have always believed that to heal and move forward, we ...
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Scott Jennings: Americans are sick of Democrats telling them they’re ‘too stupid to understand’ — but the party just can’t stop
Democratic Senators who stand ready to sink their teeth into Trump’s cabinet picks are totally missing the political message the American people are sending them, one CNN analyst believes.