North Korea, Paris, Paul Manafort: Your Thursday Briefing
The Smithsonian Institution, which Congress created on this day in 1846, is now composed of 19 museums and galleries
that are devoted to "the process of developing an American national identity." It is intriguing, then, that the Smithsonian’s founding patron, James Smithson, never set foot in the U.S. Smithson was born in Paris as Jacques-Louis Macie, the illegitimate son of a wealthy English duke.
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[The New York Times] • In Poland, a hair-raising video shared by the state railway shows a high-speed train missing a car by seconds.
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[The New York Times] • In Yemen, at least 29 African migrants drowned when human traffickers seeking to avoid capture forced them to swim to shore.
