In today\u2019s newsletter: As official celebrations spotlight a narrow cast of \u200bwhite heroes, communities across the US are reclaiming the histories that Freedom 250 leaves out<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Good morning, and a very happy 250th birthday to the United States of America. If you prefer to celebrate with cage fighting<\/a> on the White House lawn, an IndyCar rally<\/a> through the streets of Washington DC, or simply by watching the president do his lonely bop to YMCA at a sparsely attended state fair<\/a>, so much the better.<\/p>\n It takes a special kind of someone to make the semiquincentennial birthday of a nation of 349 million people, from a whole variety of backgrounds, all about himself. But he wouldn\u2019t be the only one centred on a very particular (white, male, Christian-centric) view of how the nation came to be.<\/p>\n UK news<\/strong><\/em> | Women from Black and Asian backgrounds are less likely than their white counterparts to receive an epidural while giving birth<\/a>, research has revealed.<\/p>\n Ukraine <\/strong><\/em>| Ukraine and Russia have promised fresh assaults after Moscow launched a huge barrage on Kyiv<\/a>, killing at least 27 people, tearing open apartment buildings and sending tens of thousands of people to shelters.<\/p>\n UK news <\/strong><\/em>| Criminal investigators in the UK say they have uncovered <\/a>a \u201ctruly international network\u201d of organised drug-facilitated sexual assault in which victims are sedated before being raped and sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n UK politics <\/strong><\/em>| Keir Starmer has formally apologised<\/a> for the British state\u2019s role in past forced adoptions after decades of campaigning by mothers and children affected.<\/p>\n World news <\/strong><\/em>| A rescue team pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive<\/a> from a collapsed basement, ending an operation that became a symbol of hope after the devastation of twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today\u2019s newsletter: As official celebrations spotlight a narrow cast of \u200bwhite heroes, communities across the US are reclaiming the histories that Freedom 250 leaves out Good morning, and a very happy 250th birthday to the United States of America. If you prefer to celebrate with cage fighting on the White House lawn, an IndyCar … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}