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: The Times of Israel
Jul 7, 2017
Israel says resolution calling the biblical Tomb of the Patriarchs a Palestinian heritage site is ‘shameful’; second anti-Israel vote in three days.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 6, 2017
Though the president did not visit the site, his daughter Ivanka Trump — a convert to Judaism — visited Thursday afternoon to lay a wreath.
Source: Smithsonian
Jul 6, 2017
In 2010, the arts-and-crafts retailer purchased thousands of cultural artifacts smuggled from Iraq
Source: The Guardian
Jul 6, 2017
Head of Iraq inquiry says he does not believe former PM was clear enough about his decisions in the run-up to war.
Source: Johnson’s Russia List
Jul 5, 2017
The periodic increases and current decrease in the number of births in Russia reflects the third echo of World War II, Anatoly Vishnevsky says, with the low number of births in 1943 leading to demographic declines approximately every 25 years thereafter.
Source: The Washington Post
Jul 5, 2017
Investigators believe they have discovered the “smoking gun” that would support a decades-old theory that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were captured by the Japanese.
Source: NYT
Jul 5, 2017
A meeting of President John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1961 points to the hazards of walking into such a session without clear strategic goals.
Source: NYT
Jul 4, 2017
A new genetic analysis finds that ancient Africans walked into Europe 270,000 years ago, much earlier than previously known, and interbred with Neanderthals.
Source: CNN
Jul 4, 2017
Sweden's Museum of Failure focuses on business failures like Trump’s monopoly-like board game.
Source: AP
Jul 1, 2017
Two of the Confederate Army’s best-known leaders have streets named for them in a place not normally associated with the Southern side of the Civil War – New York City. Now some elected officials are trying to undo it.
Source: NYT
Jul 1, 2017
The patriotic tune started off as an insult — until Americans appropriated it.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 30, 2017
The group debated about what action to take before settling on repairing the sign with handwritten notes and drawings that both memorialized Till but also did what the sign no longer could do: educate others about what had transpired at that place.
Source: ABC27
Jun 30, 2017
Senate Bill 723 calls for students to take a test identical to the civics portion of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ naturalization test, the exam all immigrants must pass when applying for U.S. citizenship.
Source: Smithsonian
Jun 30, 2017
"Once Upon a Place" features the oral histories of 70 immigrants.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 30, 2017
Parties don’t usually throw out congressional leaders after electoral losses.
Source: AP
Jun 29, 2017
The foundation that operates the eastern Virginia attraction is in final negotiations with four companies that will manage its golf operations, retail stores, much of its maintenance and facilities operations and its commercial real estate, President and CEO Mitchell Reiss said.
Source: The Washington Post
Jun 29, 2017
The fight began nearly 25 years ago, an epic legal tussle over a single word: Redskins.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Jun 29, 2017
At the University of Virginia they’re building a memorial to the slaves who built the place.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 29, 2017
Here's what the Man behind Godwin's Law thinks.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 29, 2017
It's not necessarily what Trump said that makes his comments unusual, but that he chose to say it publicly.
