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The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks which young infielder you prefer.

LONDON — The Associated Press and British Movietone, one of the world’s most comprehensive newsreel archives, are together bringing more than 1 million minutes of digitized film footage to YouTube.

The ICAIC Latin-American Newsreels were produced weekly from 1960 to 1990, and represents a unique historical document depicting events such as world's growing bipolarisation, the independence wars of ...

BERLIN, July 19, 1940 (UP) -- Adolf Hitler today addressed an "appeal to reason" to Great Britain to avert "destruction of a great world empire," but he made it clear that rejection would mean an ...

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