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: NY Daily News
Jan 13, 2017
There have been frequent threats against Kissinger in the past, most of them from Arab extremists.
Source: Quote
Jan 13, 2017
These are the ones that required a high reading level.
Source: NYT
Jan 12, 2017
At auction is the collection of the Hall of Presidents and First Ladies, a 60-year-old wax museum that has earnestly presented every occupant of the Oval Office — and their female counterparts — in varying degrees of accuracy.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 12, 2017
The British government has greenlit a controversial plan to build a 1.8-mile two-lane highway underneath Stonehenge, the iconic array of 4,000-year-old pillars in the south of England.
Source: NYT
Jan 12, 2017
The Reconstruction monument, backed by Eric Foner, includes several sites near Beaufort, S.C., which fell under control of the Union Army in November 1861, and became one of the first places where emancipated slaves voted, bought property and created churches, schools and businesses.
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 11, 2017
The comparison "coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust."
Source: Time Magazine
Jan 11, 2017
There was much ado about William G. McAdoo—Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law—who shaped the Federal Reserve and helped finance World War I.
Source: Vox
Jan 11, 2017
It is simply not true that no one was so concerned about Rockefeller's potential financial conflicts of interest. On the contrary, in a September 1974 article, Linda Charlton reported for the New York Times: “Rockefeller Vows Full Cooperation.”
Source: Radio Free Europe
Jan 11, 2017
A stone cross was smashed to pieces and two slabs bearing the names of the victims were painted with a Ukrainian flag, Ukrainian nationalist symbols, and a Nazi SS emblem.
Source: NYT
Jan 11, 2017
New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong?
Source: NYT
Jan 11, 2017
The “Eight-Year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression” will now be the “14-Year War,” with the starting date moved back to 1931, the government said.
Source: History channel
Jan 10, 2017
Obama is following a tradition that goes all the way back to George Washington, whose written message announcing his intention to step down from the presidency in 1796 still stands as the most famous presidential farewell in the nation’s history.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 10, 2017
Professor Michael Eric Dyson suggested donating to the United Negro College Fund or paying “the black person who cuts your grass double what you might ordinarily pay.”
Source: WSJ
Jan 10, 2017
Shandong Jianzhu University fired Deng Xiangchao for his ‘erroneous remarks’ on Weibo
Source: Slate
Jan 10, 2017
In the last half century only one cabinet nomination has been rejected, but others have been withdrawn.
Source: NY Daily News
Jan 9, 2017
“We should be proud to make a strong statement that Americans value women, champion equality and honor the significant contributions of women throughout our history.”
Source: NYT
Jan 9, 2017
Before Sotheby’s sells a long-held family trove of Alexander Hamilton’s documents, the public is invited to take a look.
Source: Iraqi News
Jan 9, 2017
"The majority of these places belong to Christianity, Yazdanism and Yarsanism (Kaka’i)."
Source: NYT
Jan 9, 2017
He prosecuted civil-rights activists in 1985, but his case fell apart.
Source: NPR
Jan 9, 2017
The "Pioneer Cabin Tree," a sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, saw horses and cars pass through it over the years. More recently, only hikers were allowed to walk through the massive tree.
