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Gideon Rachman talks to Alexander Gabuev of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, Jeremy Shapiro of the European Council on Foreign Relations and Karin von Hippel of the Royal United Services Institute ...

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John Yoo, a former clerk for conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the former deputy assistant attorney ...

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After learning the U.S. doesn't officially recognize the bald eagle as its national bird, a Minnesota man swooped in and wrote a bill for Congress. This week, Biden signed it into law.

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After long being an unofficial symbol, the white head, yellow beak bald eagle became the official U.S. bird on Christmas Eve.