This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Newsweek
September 28, 2015
The stunningly swift reversal by Republican politicians didn’t happen by accident. It was the result of an organized effort by Tea Party-affiliated groups anxious to make a mark after a series of legislative losses.
Source: Pew Research Center
September 28, 2015
Views of Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Society Mixed
Source: The Times
September 25, 2015
Almost a third of the walls of the 13th-century Mamluk citadel, a Unesco world heritage site, had been badly damaged in the latest bombardment.
Source: NYT
September 25, 2015
He wants to educate people about the hard-fought history of consumer protections that are now taken for granted — and that he says are under assault.
Source: WaPo
September 25, 2015
With John Boehner's announcement Thursday that he will leave Congress at the end of October, he will become the sixth speaker in a row to effectively be forced to relinquish the gavel. But there's a difference this time.
Source: Newsweek
September 24, 2015
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dartmouth University launched the Early Warning Project in September 2015 to try to predict the risk of new mass killing episodes in countries around the world.
Source: Talking Points Memo
September 23, 2015
A Chicago television news station made a truly unfortunate art choice to accompany a segment on the Jewish High Holidays on Wednesday: the yellow Star of David that Jews were legally required to wear during the Holocaust.
Source: The Washington Post
September 25, 2015
“I started as a secretary, typing and filing for a nine-person real estate firm. It’s only in this country that you can go from being a secretary to chief executive of the largest tech company in the world, and run for president of the United States. It’s only possible here.”
Source: The Conversation
September 23, 2015
A new study, published in PLOS One, reports the discovery of a 9,000 year-old case of ritualised human decapitation that seems to be the oldest in the Americas by some margin.
Source: NPR
September 23, 2015
The meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama at the White House continues a tradition going back nearly a century between U.S. presidents and the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Source: Bloomberg
September 24, 2015
A national survey finds that 72 percent of Americans say their country isn't as great as it once was —a central theme of front-runner Donald Trump's campaign.
Source: NYT
September 24, 2015
The Chinese president’s first immersion in politics came on the streets of Beijing when Mao Zedong exhorted students “to bombard the headquarters” of order.
Source: illinoistimes.com
September 18, 2015
The state of Illinois hasn't passed a budget. That means the Lincoln project can't sign a contract for federal funds.
Source: CNN
September 23, 2015
Pope Francis on Wednesday canonized Junipero Serra, a Spanish missionary, a moment of deep pride for Latinos but a source of controversy for many Native Americans.
Source: BBC
September 22, 2015
The former SS member is accused of serving as a radio operator for the camp commandant.
Source: The Washington Post
September 17, 2015
The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years.
Source: NYT
September 20, 2015
After officials discovered the NSA had collected metadata on strictly domestic calls, Bush gave the agency retroactive authority to do so.
Source: The New Yorker
September 18, 2015
Exxon didn’t just “know” about climate change: it conducted some of the original research.
Source: NYT
September 19, 2015
The incredible story unearthed by the Times of a 107 year old African American woman who returns for the first time since 1915 to the little Mississippi town her family fled after a lynching.
Source: CBS News
September 19, 2015
It was President Kennedy, angered by bad intelligence on the disastrous attempted invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, who first asked for a daily rundown of the latest top secret intelligence.
