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 Guardian
Dec 25, 2016
It has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia.
Source: The Wire
Dec 24, 2016
India drops a section of a textbook that described how female members of the lower caste were forced to pay a tax if they chose in the early 1800s to cover their breasts.
Source: CBS News
Dec 24, 2016
In states including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico, legislators have said they plan to introduce legislation that would require their state’s Electoral College voters cast ballots for the presidential candidate who earns the most votes nationwide, regardless of the statewide results.
Source: NYT
Dec 23, 2016
The highest-ranking Canadian soldier killed in action during World War II was shot in a largely forgotten fight that left nearly 3,000 soldiers dead, 290 of then Canadian.
Source: The Chicago Tribune
Dec 23, 2016
Though the Obama library fundraising effort will span the nation and possibly the globe, it's likely to hold special appeal to Chicago's philanthropists, said a local fundraising specialist.
Source: Seeker
Dec 22, 2016
Italian researchers have discovered what might be the oldest nativity scene ever found — 5,000-year-old rock art that depicts a star in the east, a newborn between parents and two animals.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 22, 2016
The President was told a nuclear exchange could cost the lives of 80 million Americans.
Source: Fox News
Dec 21, 2016
The Seton Hall Law Center uncovered an internal FBI memo dating July 17, 1950 that determined there was “insufficient evidence” to arrest her.
Source: Atlanta Black Star
Dec 21, 2016
“In the end, slavery was actually a positive thing for the world because people learned to fight for who they are.” – Student
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Dec 21, 2016
One professor's database cites 81 attempts by the United States to influence elections in other countries, notably in Iran, Guatemala and Chile.
Source: Atlantic
Dec 21, 2016
In an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who backs reparations, Obama said "it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation’s resources over a long period of time to make that right."
Source: Newsweek
Dec 21, 2016
The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act erodes some of the legal technicalities that art museums have used to hold on to Nazi-looted art when faced with claims.
Source: Time Magazine
Dec 20, 2016
The inclination to keep the press at more than arm’s length is about as old as America is.
Source: The Guardian
Dec 20, 2016
The trust will publish a new guidebook next year telling the LGBTQ history of some of its properties, and put on a range of events under the headline Prejudice and Pride.
Source: Fortune
Dec 20, 2016
“We recently made improvements to our algorithm that will help surface more high quality, credible content on the web."
Source: The Scotsman
Dec 20, 2016
Historian Thomas Weber, of the University of Aberdeen, has uncovered evidence that festive meetings continued throughout the war, with a significant number in 1916 despite the huge casualties suffered in the Battle of the Somme.
Source: National Security Archive
Dec 20, 2016
Daily briefings underscored the threats to national security and the propaganda value of rival programs.
Source: Moyers & Company
Dec 20, 2016
Do we need a new Schoolhouse Rock! to remind us how to run a democracy?
Source: Yahoo
Dec 20, 2016
The new algorithm is so powerful, it can actually detect three times more cases of plagiarism than the previous version.
Source: NYT
Dec 19, 2016
It wasn’t about small-state bias or regionalism. It was about the nature of the battleground states, and there was one other key element: luck.
