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
Jul 27, 2017
KGB defector Yuri Nosenko was imprisoned after the CIA grew suspicious of claims he had intimate information regarding the assassination.
Source: Time Magazine
Jul 27, 2017
The repairs will be expensive and it's not at all clear who is prepared to foot the bill. Under France's strict secular laws, the government owns the cathedral, and the Catholic archdiocese of Paris uses it permanently for free.
Source: YouGov UK
Jul 26, 2017
By three to one, British people think the British Empire is something to be proud of rather than ashamed of – they also tend to think it left its colonies better off, and a third would like it to still exist.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 26, 2017
Albert Cashier served in the army as a man, lived his life as man and was buried at 71 with full military honors in 1915, as a man. But beneath the uniform in which he fought and was buried, he was biologically a woman.
Source: NYT
Jul 26, 2017
More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, taking heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close.
Source: Politico
Jul 26, 2017
A Politico/Morning Consult poll out early Wednesday found 49 percent of Trump voters think he won the popular vote, compared to just 40 percent who think Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won it.
Source: The Atlantic
Jul 24, 2017
by James Fallows
Half a century ago, a senator battling a brain tumor took to the Senate floor, and secured his legacy.
Source: Times Live
Jul 24, 2017
German car giant Volkswagen aided Brazil's 1964-85 military government in identifying and persecuting political dissenters among its workforce in the country.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 24, 2017
Duterte has repeatedly criticized the United States for killing thousands of Filipinos during the Philippine-American war.
Source: Newsweek
Jul 24, 2017
Those gubernatorial cases could provide a precedent if Trump chooses to pardon himself.
Source: NYT
Jul 23, 2017
Indigenous people in Canada stand in line to receive a $5 payment. Yes, they're upset about that.
Source: The Boston Globe
Jul 23, 2017
An effort is underway to revise a law that prevents memorials from being built on there Mall for wars still in progress.
Source: NYT
Jul 22, 2017
A long-hidden legal memo says yes.
Source: NYT
Jul 22, 2017
He won't use that power now, he says, but reserves the right to use it.
Source: NYT
Jul 22, 2017
The president’s strategy for navigating the inquiry is adopted from the Clintons’ approach to the Whitewater and Lewinsky investigations.
Source: The National Coalition for History
Jul 21, 2017
They include funding for the NEH & NHPRC, with only limited cuts.
Source: Politifact
Jul 21, 2017
President Donald Trump’s private discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit is highly unusual but not completely without precedent.
Source: NYT
Jul 21, 2017
The first installment profiles Elmore Nickleberry, a Memphis sanitation worker – still on the job! – who was involved in the 1968 strike that drew MLK's attention.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 21, 2017
The decision to ban travel by U.S. citizens to a foreign country marks an unusual policy shift for the State Department, harking back to restrictions on travel not widely used since the Cold War era.
Source: NYT
Jul 21, 2017
A lunar landing, a museum loan, a theft, a critical error, a legal battle — and now, a sale at auction. What’s next for this bag of moon dust?
