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The land of conquistadors, aztecs, and incas. Human sacrifice, religion, greed, war, and torture have all played their part in the building and crushing of magnificent empires. Bandits a continent that is now a living, breathing mix of cultures thousands of years old. [crash] our journey through latin america will take us to prehispanic civilizations all but destroyed by conquistadors, to sites which witnessed the violent struggles for independence from spain and then revolution and bloody civil...

The funeral, as thousands pay their final respects. Good evening. And thank you for joining us on this saturday. Im cecilia vega. Tonight, candidates from both parties are one step closer in this race for the white house. Two very close contests. In South Carolina, voting in the republican primary has just ended. Still too early to make a projection there, but based on our analysis of the exit polls, right now, its looking like a threeperson race. Trump, cruz and rubio. But in the democratic cau...

Summer. And making a splash. A grieving man brought joy back into his home by making it the place to be this summer. Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west as we join you again from los angeles. It has become a rurg nightmare, a vehicle being driven through crowds of pedestrians in a murderous rampage. Barcelona today becoming the latest western city to be targeted by such an attack, this time leaving more than a dozen pe...

Jefferson and other founding fathers. Stunned by the reaction to his handling of charlottesville, the president is attempting to draw the battle line away from his defense of those who marched with neonazis as did he on tuesday. He wants to plan on defending our countrys heritage. He wants to make it about whether we keep the washington monday utility, the Jefferson Memorial and the rest sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal. You cant change ...

Government official in spain now saying that 12 people were killed and 80 were injured. And after seeing the aftermath, its difficult to doubt it when police say that the death toll could still rise. A witness says that this van in spain was going about 50 Miles Per Hour when it plowed into the crowd. We want to warn you about video were about to show. Its very graphic and difficult to watch. Were going to use it sparingly, if you have children nearby, you might want them to turn away. [ sirens ...

Word. One thing the president hasnt found time for in his schedule is emergency meeting about whats going on with the pacific fleet. Yep. These two accidents, extraordinary accidents within a month of each other. 17 lost navy sailors. Thats exactly right. And, you know, the john mccain is named for the father and grandfather of senator john mccain. The president gave that speech this week in arizona. No mention of those sailors or the connection to its hard to take. Yeah, it obvious opportunity ...

About, you know, hate is like an illness. Its an illness of the heart and it can be cured and violence is a tactic and its a sad one but the one thing and you hear them chanting in the background there. Its this language of us and them. Us and them. And thats the language that doesnt belong in the vocabulary, not of a community or a complex society like ours and thats, i think, what we all have to take home from this, that we reject that thinking and that voek cab cue berry. Its we the people. T...

Some republican members of congress now not willing to say and, you know, the john mccain is named for the father and grandfather of senator john mccain. The president gave that speech this week in arizona. No mention of those sailors or the connection to its hard to take. Yeah, it obvious opportunity to do that was in arizona but to take it seriously, as an issue, theres been no indication that hes had even a meeting about it. Yeah. I know. And the navy relieving the commander of the 7th fleet ...

Germanamericans and italianamericans didnt all get put into internment camps during world war ii, right . They werent rounded up, the germans and italians in this country. Of the axis powers, it was only the japaneseamericans that got put in internment camps en masse in world war ii. Why was that . Why was it just them . In 1982, a legal historian lawyer named peter irons was going through boxes of government documents. He was researching the origins of that world war ii policy in which the u. S...

No president has ever had to hire four Different National Security Advisors in less than three years. But after President Trump fired his third one yesterday, or he resigned, or something, today what i guess has been the john bolton wing of the Trump White House started emptying out in the wake of boltons departure himself. Boltons assistant at the National Security council was fired or left today. The two senior directors for Strategic Communication at the National Security council were also fi...