An Iowa high school student considered the future of her family farm through the lens of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring.” One middle-schooler analyzed tensions between Bangladesh and Pakistan with fierce moral clarity. Another educated himself about trade policy to understand Puerto Rico. The kids I met at the National History Day finals in College Park in June weren’t afraid to confront history. They were rushing toward the hard truths some adults want to hide from them.

Rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River will probably take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, experts said Wednesday. But the shipping channel from the Port of Baltimore, a major economic engine for the city, could be cleared in months. Federal officials also reiterated their pledges to support the effort. “We still don’t fully know the condition of the portions of the bridge that are still standing or of infrastructure that is below the surface of the water,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said at the White House.

A Florida man accused of killing his family after stealing $200,000 to fund a depraved online relationship with a Bulgarian camgirl sent her sex toys and clothing that she wore in raunchy snaps and videos she sent back to him, new records show. The files — released Wednesday by the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney’s Office and obtained by The Post — contain dozens of pornographic images and videos from a flash drive seized by authorities investigating the relationship between Grant Amato, 29, and camgirl Silviya Ventsislavova, before Amato’s parents and brother were found dead in their Chuluota home on Jan 25.

An England Lioness has spoken of the long route she’s taken to becoming a World Cup finalist, and it all began in a Barnsley fish and chip shop.  Sarina Wiegman’s side will face Spain on Sunday as England’s women’s team take part in a World Cup final for the very first time.  Yet it’s a far cry from one member’s early beginnings, where she was shovelling chips into the hands of locals as she juggled a day job around her footballing career and finishing her A Levels.

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By Damien SimonisFeatures correspondent Bullfighting in Catalonia will be banned from 1 January 2012. (Dennis Johnson/LPI)In Spain, Catalonia’s regional parliament voted to ban bullfighting from 2012. Should you go before la fiesta is over? To its aficionados, bullfighting is an art. Some would say a dying art, and Spain's northeast region of Catalonia hammered another nail into the coffin in July 2010, when the regional parliament voted to ban it from 2012.

Treasures of New York Special | 26m 46s  | Video has closed captioning. The North Shore of Long Island is a region with a unique and elegant history, known commonly by its nickname, the Gold Coast. Treasures takes you on a tour inside Old Westbury Gardens, Planting Fields, OHEKA CASTLE, and several other mansions on Long Island’s North Shore, offering a glimpse of the Downton Abbey-style elegance that defined this historic region.

A race of men known as the Andals invaded Westeros 6,000 years before the series’ events. Currently, they are the dominant racial and cultural group on the continent. The ancestral home of the Andals was in a region known as Andalos, north of the modern Free City of Pentos, on the west coast of Essos. Six thousand years ago, the Andals went to Westeros after allegedly seeing the “Seven-faced God” in visions.

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Washington, D.C.National baseball writer Education: Yale University, B.A. History and International Studies, Stanford University, Master's in Communication Chelsea Janes is the national baseball writer. She covered the 2020 presidential campaign, and was the Post's Washington Nationals beat writer from 2014 to 2018. Before working at The Post, she interned at USA Today and the San Francisco Chronicle and covered the San Diego Padres as an associate reporter for MLB.com. Read more