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Disrupting grain. Israeli shelling continues to pummel gaza a day after a humanitarian ceasefire collapsed. The 72hour truce lasted 19 minutes. 1 tent palestinians have died in the last 24 hours. Two Israeli Soldiers were killed in the hardhit city of rafah in gaza and israelis are search oning for a soldier. Hamas says it has no information k say if they captured him, they were probably all killed by israeli shopping. The Islamic University in gaza city, at least five people were killed, all me...

Crash. Today is the final day of campaigning before todays Midterm Elections. The biggest prize the control of the u. S. Senate. If republicans take over most of the president s legislative agenda will be essentially dead. And Getting Senate approval for the president s judicial nominees will likely end as well. To take control of the u. S. Senate, republicans need a net gain of six senate seats. One of the reasons the gop is favored is because democrats are seeking for more seats than republica...

Desert. And Climate Change, why the u. N. Says the window of opportunity is closing. After the most expensive Midterm Campaign ever, election day is almost here. The candidates are down to the final push. The big prize tomorrow, control of the senate. If republicans take over, it will be even more difficult for president obama to get his agenda through congress. That includes Getting Senate approval for the president s judicial nominee. Tonight we begin with David Shuster. John, were told the nu...

Between the israelis and palestinians. The calendar says fall, but Mother Nature had other ideas. The east coast slammed with whipping winds and snow. The wintery weather wont last long. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. As peshmerga Ground Troops join the battle for kobane in syria, iraq forces plan a major spring offensive against isil. Its being devised with the help of u. S. Military advisers and will require thousands more iraq troops. The goal is...

Two leaders. This event was part of the Gettysburg College Civil War Institute annual summer conference. It runs about an hour. Ok, good evening. I and peter carmichael, professor of history at Gettysburg College and also director of the Civil War Institute. My guest is noted historian gordon ray. He 20 years ago published the battle of the wilderness with lsu press. This would be the first of 4 volumes to cover the 1864 Overland Campaign. Gordon was the first historian to ever attempt to write ...

We have some new information in the case of an abducted philadelphia woman who has since been returned to her family. Overnight the suspect in that case was extradited from jessup, maryland, to virginia. Nick giovanni is live in the newsroom with more on this development. Reporter were learning new details at this hour about how police managed to track down delven barnes. This morning the Baltimore Sun is reporting a key ring, candy wrappers and a bag of potato chips found in the driveway of a w...

Put on the mantle piece so i was glad to get it. I thanked him for it and i was going to waco to do some research at baylor, wrapped it up in old dirty tshirts and put it carefully in my suitcase and went down to waco in the rental car the next day, spoke well and came back and went to the airport at dfw, checked the bag to go to washington because i was going up there to a smithsonian program. I spent a few days at my brothers doing research in the archives. Did that, the jar still wrapped up i...

Through the first thing i would say is there is this misconception that people say oh, shermans men cut a swath 50 miles wide or 60 miles wide. That is i always tell my students you dont want to think of it like a lawn mower strip. It is not 50 miles wide of lawn mower. It is 50 miles from the edge of one column through four columns to the furthest edge of the other. So in many ways it is very what is the word oim looking for. Not sporadic or episodic. But sometimes a house is targeting and othe...

Thank you very much paul. And thank you all very much for coming. Merchant of terror, demon, a killer. If you type was sherman a into google the auto complete includes war criminal, hero or villain. And if you add a couple more letters you get terrorist. The urban dictionary, a popular website, describes generally william t. Sherman as having employed the vicious tactic of targeting civilians. Continuing, such tactics had previously been deemed morally unacceptable. The deliberate targeting of t...

Day before, in which johnston himself reported to the confederate government that he had 55,000 men present for duty. I dont know what happened to those 12,000 men on the night of april 30thmay 1st. Mass desertion. Who knew. Maybe the radioactive atomic cloud got there and wiped out 12 thousand of his men. Or the question of casualties. Johnston had his medical director, johnston lost according to his medical director 9,972 men killed and wounded in his infantry and artillery in may and june. Hi...