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 News
Sep 19, 2015
It was President Kennedy, angered by bad intelligence on the disastrous attempted invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, who first asked for a daily rundown of the latest top secret intelligence.
Source: illinoistimes.com
Sep 18, 2015
The state of Illinois hasn't passed a budget. That means the Lincoln project can't sign a contract for federal funds.
Source: The New Yorker
Sep 18, 2015
Exxon didn’t just “know” about climate change: it conducted some of the original research.
Source: The Washington Post
Sep 17, 2015
The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years.
Source: Atlantic
Sep 17, 2015
The research confirms what historians already knew -- that the first millennium saw the greatest mixing of separate groups in western Europe -- but also discovered evidence for an influx of Mongolians into Europe that predated the reign of Ghengis Khan.
Source: NYT
Sep 17, 2015
Formerly a teacher and jewelry maker in Denmark, Jeppe Nordmann Garly last month began a new job on a hillside campus in central Norway as the director of Scandinavia’s first government-funded training course on how to live like a Viking.
Source: Alliance for Justice
Sep 17, 2015
The Senate has confirmed only six judges in 2015, the slowest pace in over 60 years.
Source: ABC News
Sep 16, 2015
Archaeologists are working quietly and methodically to catalogue, photograph and pack artifacts that are thousands of years old into wooden crates to be stored in top secret storage facilities in Damascus and elsewhere.
Source: National Security Archive
Sep 16, 2015
Today the National Security Archive is proud to post a compilation of our ongoing work to shed light on these important documents. The collection is comprised of dozens of records and the Ninth Circuit Court ruling, which paved the way for today's disclosure.
Source: Press Release
Sep 15, 2015
“These stories talk about a time when the sea started to come in and cover the land, and the changes this brought about to the way people lived – the changes in landscape, the ecosystem and the disruption this caused to their society.”
Source: Variety
Sep 15, 2015
Reiner will direct from a script by Joey Hartstone, which follows Johnson’s ascension from the poor hill country of West Texas to the corridors of power in Washington.
Source: Facebook page of Christopher A. Tuttle
Sep 15, 2015
Baraqish in Yemen had been restored by the Italians. Now it's in ruin.
Source: Politico
Sep 15, 2015
In a bid to burnish her image with voters, the Clinton campaign is flooding the Internet with nostalgic pictures of the Democratic front-runner.
Source: The Times Higher Education
Sep 14, 2015
Seventeen universities are to close liberal arts and social science courses
Source: Cogent OA
Sep 14, 2015
A new study indicates it actually happens, especially involving art from Cambodia, Argentina and Syria.
Source: History channel
Sep 14, 2015
A Belgium-based Egyptologist has rediscovered the oldest known Egyptian leather manuscript, dating back more than 4,000 years to late Old Kingdom and early Middle Kingdom (2300-2000 B.C.).
Source: TPM
Sep 14, 2015
Sanders said the election of Barack Obama in 2008 was a great step forward for America, but the country's founding on "racist principles" and "institutional racism cries out for reform."
Source: Newsweek
Sep 14, 2015
It was back in 1965, during the depths of the Cold War and the peak of the civil rights movement, that the United States overhauled its immigration laws.
Source: Buzzfeed
Sep 14, 2015
“Simply put, Pat Buchanan has written too many inflammatory, outrageous, and controversial things to ever be elected president.”
Source: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sep 14, 2015
From 2004 to 2012, every academic subject saw a declining percentage of students taught by a teacher with a postsecondary degree in that subject. The largest decline occurred in history.
