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As the world marks the centenary of the end of ‘The Great War,’ on Nov. 11, 1918, it is a time to reflect on the parallels between the politics, policies, and propaganda that emerged then and now. Today's Britain is a far cry from the globe-spanning empire that stood at the end of what Britons still call “The Great War.” But even as it struggles with Brexit now, it is both less globalized and more cosmopolitan than it was a century ago. CAMBRIDGE, England – At midday Sunday, thousands of bells will peal across Britain to celebrate the centenary of the end of World War I. On Armistice Day in 1918, those bells rang out over a country that was near the territorial peak of its empire. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ff5F3a

The students listen to their teacher’s instructions and dutifully turn to their laptops, where the challenge awaits. The room fills with clicking sounds and hushed whispers as the students get to work on their challenge: Program the turtle to move along the square path. Brooke High School is a charter school located in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston with a student body that is more than 80 percent African-American. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2z4DzSy

One surprise in the midterm elections was how many young Americans made it a hands-on exercise in civics. In fact, youth turnout in the 2018 election was the highest for any midterm in the past quarter century, according to a Tufts University study. This is welcome at a time when more than half of adults in the United States do not know who Robert Mueller is. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OywNJX

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will most likely meet in some fashion this Sunday at a World War I memorial event in Paris. A lot has changed since they last met in Helsinki in July – and not in Russia’s favor, according to much of Russia’s foreign policy community. Later, the White House announced that it will pull out of the landmark INF treaty, the deal that ended the old cold war. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PNmMNy

Tom Perez wears many hats. All three identities came to bear Thursday at the Monitor Breakfast, a day after President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and two days after Democrats reclaimed the majority in the House and grabbed at least seven governorships away from Republicans. Looking ahead to 2020, Chairman Perez said Mr. Trump is “absolutely” beatable. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PK6Bk8

Ms. Berringer won just 39 percent of the vote, and lost the race to then-Rep. Joe Pitts. The outcome may not have been any different: Pennsylvania’s 16th District is one of the state’s most conservative, and Democrats haven’t been able to snag that seat in half a century. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qD4Eb8

In the summer of 2017, as special counsel Robert Mueller was ramping up his Trump-Russia investigation, a former US attorney in Iowa began offering legal commentary on CNN. In contrast, Matthew Whitaker, a conservative Republican, argued that the Trump-Russia investigation should be strictly limited to examining whether Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OySzwX

Tuesday’s elections in the United States did little to help Americans define a middle ground on immigration. Perhaps they should take a cue from another big democracy, Germany. Since 2015, when a million Muslim refugees flooded into the country, German politics has become more polarized. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qBW9wJ

Alice Blackmer is a transplanted Vermonter, a huge Bernie Sanders fan repotted in the northern Virginia exurb of Leesburg, an hour’s drive from Washington, D.C. On Election Day, she voted a straight Democratic ticket, and helped Democrats flip a seat to retake the House. “I just can’t stand Donald Trump and those around him.” What she wanted was a check on the president. Tuesday’s record-turnout midterm elections brought divided government back to Washington – a condition that Americans prefer more often than not, and one that, while unwieldy, offers the checks and balances that the Constitution enshrines. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OvTm1N

The divided outcome in Tuesday’s midterms – Democrats capturing the House and Republicans expanding their Senate majority – perfectly captured the nation’s divisions. “This was a realignment election, not a wave,” says former Rep. Tom Davis (R) of Virginia. Indeed, President Trump, Capitol Hill legislators of both parties, and the American people face a choice. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PLmHKl

America’s midterm election has left Democrats in control of the House and the GOP stronger in the Senate. According to past experience, a divided Capitol Hill could mean stalemate for the next two years, besides Senate Republicans loading up the federal bench. Will the new Congress be equally far from heaven as from hell? from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RErkmL

Eric Holland spent most of his nearly 50 years living in “one of the whitest counties” in Georgia. Known as one of the most international square miles in the US where more than 60 languages are spoken, Clarkston is a suburb of Atlanta. Not long after his 2013 visit, Mr. Holland picked up his family, his wife and their four kids, and moved to Clarkston. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Fa2F83

When the gunshots came to her neighborhood, Kristen Keller turned to books. Has been for 12 years, at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill. A collection on community and coming together that would also feature titles dealing with grief, fear, and death. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QnGqwB

Rashida Tlaib never set out to be a “new face” of the Democratic Party – but on the cusp of her election to the US House of Representatives, she can hardly avoid the label. Not long ago, her profile – a Muslim civil rights lawyer and mother of two, raised by Palestinian immigrant parents in a majority-minority community in Detroit – might have been seen as too far a reach for Congress. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2D7dzJb

Far more than the people of Ukraine took notice on Sunday when a young and prominent anti-corruption activist, Kateryna Handzyuk, died in Kiev after an acid attack. While protests were quickly held in five cities demanding her killers be held to account, it was the strong reactions in Washington and European capitals that mattered more – mainly because Ukraine has become a test case of whether foreign pressure can help end entrenched corruption in a sovereign country. Ever since a pro-democracy revolution four years ago, Ukraine has been on the front line of the West’s struggle with Russia and its brand of authoritarian rule. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PcfrHU

There was Kakwa, his mother tongue, shouted across scratchy cellphone lines to South Sudanese family back home and scattered around the region. Rabuna, Abuna fi sama, de akil al bi saadu gisim, he would whisper each night in Juba Arabic, hands clasped over his dinner plate. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AQC63E