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: CBS
Jan 15, 2016
Twenty-five years ago, the first U.S. airstrikes began on Baghdad in Operation Desert Storm. In just six weeks, U.S. forces expelled the Iraqi military from Kuwait. David Martin spoke to Colin Powell about what we learned from the first Gulf War.
Source: WSJ
Jan 15, 2016
Parents groups object to what they see as an overly benign depiction of the religion
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 15, 2016
The question of whether someone had issued a “stand down” has loomed over Benghazi since the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
Jan 14, 2016
University of Maryland law professor Larry S. Gibson, a commission member, proposed the plan to remove the Roger B. Taney Monument on Mount Vernon Place and the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson Monument in the Wyman Park Dell.
Jan 14, 2016
Military officers in the southern province of Binh Duong on Wednesday successfully moved two general-purpose bombs weighing 226 and 360 kilograms found by locals to a safer place.
Source: Huffington Post
Jan 13, 2016
The chancellor of Oxford University has warned against rewriting history in his first public comments on a student campaign to remove a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes from one of the university's colleges.
Source: NYT
Jan 13, 2016
Reacting to growing nationalist sentiments, lawmakers have agreed to debate a bill that, while not scrapping the national anthem, would create another one to be played for England’s sports teams.
Source: CBS Boston
Jan 13, 2016
After nearly three centuries of conflicting beliefs, the city of Salem confirms a team of scholars verified the site where 19 innocent people were hanged during the 1692 witch trials as Proctor’s Ledge.
Source: Newsweek
Jan 13, 2016
The founders did not explicitly define "natural-born citizen," leaving room for doubt and debate.
Source: Gawker
Jan 13, 2016
So says Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina.
Source: New Historian
Jan 13, 2016
Many scientists argue that the latest geological epoch of Earth’s history – coined the Anthropocene Epoch – has already begun thanks to the actions of humanity.
Source: BBC
Jan 12, 2016
Archaeologists say they have uncovered Britain's "Pompeii" after discovering the "best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found" in the country.
Source: The New Yorker
Jan 12, 2016
by Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik says it is not so much diabolical or sinister as creepy.
Source: NYT
Jan 12, 2016
As tensions escalate between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a dispute over the name of the body of water between them illustrates the disagreements at the heart of their dispute.
Source: NYT
Jan 11, 2016
For thousands of journalists, historians and executives who file requests every year for government records only to see their requests ignored, delayed for years or refused altogether, the changes cannot come soon enough.
Source: NYT
Jan 11, 2016
Bush followed a sometimes painful learning curve in his first political race, a loss that hangs over him as he tries to right his campaign for president.
Source: NYT
Jan 11, 2016
The book is largely focused on the Koch family, stretching back to its involvement in the far-right John Birch Society and the political and business activities of the father, Fred C. Koch, who found some of his earliest business success overseas in the years leading up to World War II.
Source: WGBH
Jan 11, 2016
It’s one reason he’s so worried about the Internet now.
Source: The Washington Post
Jan 11, 2016
Ted Cruz gets his history wrong.
Source: The Post and Courier
Jan 10, 2016
The surprising finding is that many are in good condition.
