Sprinting ahead a little differently. Vice president harris is making headlines with her first half sit down, and Donald Trump is making headlines over his deranged posts on Social Media. And Jd Vance once again is highlighting his bizarre comments regarding those who dont have children. In this one, hes Calling Teachers by Name And Randee weingarten is here to respond. And later as we get underway with paralympics, well show you two of the most inspiring pair olympians ive ever spoken with. Okay. So tomorrow is Labor Day, which for many of you likely means parties, picnics, parades, hot dogs, watermelon, whatever it may be. Its also usually the start of the political season. But this year its safe to say it came a bit earlier. I mean, Take A Look at what happened in the last few months. An Assassination Attempt against the former president , a change at the top of ticket on the democratic side. Its been a lot. We dont know whats going to happen in the next two months. We do know some
The germans had occupied since 1914. To begin this story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film that gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july, 1918, general pershing created the First United States Army under his command. And immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces at one point on the line. That point was saintmihiel. The germans had held an area 25 miles since early in the war. Penetrating the allied lines 16 miles, it enabled the enemy to harass operations. More than half a million first army troops assembled for the task of crushing it out of existence. 15 infantry divisions were moved into position. By the end of the day on september 11, 1918, the first army was ready for its First Independent operations against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th, in a drizzling rain, the attack was launched. [gunfire] [explosions] for the enemy, saintmihiel was an unpleasant surprise. Within four days, the city was obliterated, and the americans were deployed along a
To begin this story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film that gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july, general pershing created the First United States Army under his command. And immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces at one point on the line. That point was saintmihiel. The germans had held an area 25 miles since early in the war. Penetrating the allied lines 16 miles, it enabled the enemy to harass operations. More than half a million first army troops assembled for the task of crushing it out of existence. 15 infantry divisions were moved into position. By the end of the day on september 11, 1918, the first army was ready for its First Independent operation against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th of september, the attack was launched. For the enemy, saintmihiel was an unpleasant surprise. Within four days, the city was obliterated and the americans were along the line. General pershing considered the victory a Birthday Gift on september 13. In
Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
Dont care what going on with the communities. Man 2 any activity by human beings will somehow, you know, like, change the ecosystem that we operate in. Zulu where the guys work, its way, way, way too far. I think we canabout 1. 5 kilometer. Man, voiceover yes, south africa does have mountains of coal, but we also have mountains of asbestos, and we decide to leave asbestos in the ground where it belongs. Man 2, voiceover where the coal mines and the power stations are located is amongst one of the most polluted areas on earth. Man 3, voiceover a very, very large cost to coalmining. Youre basically signing death warrants for people who live there. Zulu the people here are working just to put food on the table. There, they just have to survive. [camera lens clicking] announcer earth focus is made possible in part by a grant from Anne Ray Foundationa margaret a. Cargill philanthropy the Orange County community foundation, and the farvue foundation. [distant rumbling] man and weve got 17 co