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Recovery crews are combing through the charred ruins. More than 2,200 structures, homes and businesses have been damaged or destroyed. The states governor says some areas look like a war zone. The wildfires are the worst to hit a state in america in over a century, and there is growing anger on maui over both the lack of warning about the fires and the response by officials to the thousands left without homes and, in some cases, without adequate food and water. Jill tokuda, a democratic congress...

are being instructed to shelter in place as western governments try to figure out a means to safely evacuate them. also tonight, scientific censorship in china. crucial genetic sequencing that could have helped with the fight against covid, was deleted, covered up or withdrawn under pressure from party officials. we will speak to the new york times investigators. what about the transition to clean power? nine countries meeting in belgium today have commited to building an entire electr...

announced by the media. the attorney general took no questions. also tonight though, new questions about how the fbi learned about the alleged classified information at the trump facility. the specific document or document, did someone in former president trumps inner circle tip off the bureau? and what comes next in this high stakes legal back and forth? correspondent david spunt has the latest tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. >> bret, good evening to you. aft...

Fire. In my 29 years in the London Fire Brigade i have never seen a fire of this nature and i have seen many high rise fires. Around 70 people are being treated in six london hospitals, 18 of them are in a Critical Condition. In the us, a gunman opens fire on republican members of congress during a Baseball Practice in virginia. The attacker is killed by Police Officers. We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. We are united in our shock. We are united in ouranguish. An we are u...

Let Us Now Not Boast of Our Worldly Possessions with Lynley McAlpine Lynley McAlpine, SAMA’s Associate Curator of Provenance Research, presents a follow-up to her recent book, Let Us Now Not Boast of Our Worldly Possessions: Provenance Stories from the San Antonio Museum of Art. She describes why provenance research is an essential ethical responsibility for museums, reveals behind-the-scenes evidence for the histories of artworks in SAMA’s collection, and shares new results of her r...

Sunday afternoon saw incredible bids placed on several silk robes from China, Tibet, and South Korea. A 19th Century Chuba Robe from Tibet sold for $53,775 — obliterating a modest estimate of $5,000 – $10,000. The robes were a highlight of Worldly Possessions: ...

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The provenance researcher must be a detective, figuring out alternative ways to get at information that major participants in the trade are often unwilling to disclose.

Live train station. sitting on the polish border, the region has been responisble for housing people who are internally displaced, and making sure people can safely travel to the west. heres yalda hakim. i was just at lviv train station yesterday, and you see mothers carrying small babies, and whatever they can bring with them, their worldly possessions, a small bag, enough clothes to be able to put on their children to take them out of this city, because the mayor of lviv has been saying, we ar...