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 Washington Post
Jan 8, 2017
The communications director for the office of the president, Eugene Arhin, took to Facebook to apologize for the "oversight.”
Source: Johnson City Press
Jan 7, 2017
He wouldn’t be admitted today, but government officials say there’s nothing they can do about it.
Source: Politico
Jan 6, 2017
Documents indicate Kissinger told the Pinochet government not to cooperate with the US investigation of the assassination of Chile’s former ambassador to the US in Washington DC.
Source: The Telegraph
Jan 6, 2017
Representatives of the Herero and Nama peoples have filed a class action lawsuit to demand reparations for the systematic massacre of some 100,000 of their forebears between 1904 and 1908.
Source: Forbes
Jan 6, 2017
The average age of all 44 U.S. presidents who have taken office is just over 55 while Trump is 70.
Source: BBC
Jan 6, 2017
Japan has temporarily withdrawn its ambassador to South Korea, amid an escalating row over a statue representing wartime sex slaves.
Source: NYT
Jan 5, 2017
Caked in dust and dating back to 1674, the written records of a growing city are headed to new homes, to be preserved and made accessible to researchers.
Source: The National
Jan 4, 2017
A Glasgow University academic has claimed that military personnel are involved in the looting of historic sites in Syria and Iraq.
Source: NPR
Jan 4, 2017
Louisiana is losing its coast faster than any other place in the world.
Source: NPR
Jan 4, 2017
Mafia III, an action-adventure video game, is a provocative and in some ways cathartic alternate reality that directly confronts gamers of all walks of life with the reimagined raw trials of a protagonist rarely featured by the industry.
Source: History channel
Jan 3, 2017
Since John F. Kennedy, every president has had an officer that follows him around with the so-called “nuclear football,” a briefcase that can be used to launch a nuclear attack (it got its nickname from a nuclear war plan called “dropkick”).
Source: USA Today
Jan 3, 2017
Instead of building on his legacy, he'll be defending it.
Source: NYT
Jan 3, 2017
No one doubts that the ship collided at high speed with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, but a new documentary posits that the sinking of the ship may have been accelerated by a giant coal fire in its hull.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Jan 3, 2017
Jewish groups in Germany have denounced the inflammatory book, which sold 4,000 copies during its first print run at the beginning of 2016.
Source: New Republic
Jan 2, 2017
In 1947, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa set out to introduce America to Soviet life. Seventy years later, two journalists retraced their steps.
Source: Smart Politics
Jan 2, 2017
Since the passage of the 17th Amendment all but seven states have been represented by a single party in the U.S. House and Senate for at least one Congress.
Source: The Telegraph
Jan 2, 2017
In a statement, Facebook told her: “The use of the image was not approved because it violates Facebook’s guide lines on advertising. It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts..."
Source: The Atlantic
Jan 2, 2017
What Obama can learn from Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
Source: Gallup
Jan 2, 2017
As Donald Trump prepares to take the presidential oath on Jan. 20, less than half of Americans are confident in his ability to handle an international crisis, to use military force wisely, or to prevent major scandals in his administration.
Source: NYT
Jan 1, 2017
It is perhaps the most significant artifact documenting the arrival of Jews in the New World: a small, tattered 16th-century manuscript written in an almost microscopic hand by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, the man whose life and pain it chronicled.
