As ever, what readers can learn about the past is limited by what witnesses were willing to say or write down, and what historians are willing to research.
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Chad S.A. Gibbs,
The Conversation,
9 Apr. 2026
There's no single definitive origin story for the Mardi Gras Indians, but historians have found references to the tradition dating back to the mid-1800s.
Among other things, the Pentagon announced that the Correspondents’ Corridor, the journalist workspaces, would be closed, with plans to move reporters to an annex outside the building.
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Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
As the Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman revealed this week in their in-the-Situation Room account of how Trump decided to start the war, no one in his Cabinet of courtiers had the guts to challenge his mistaken assumptions.
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