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: NYT
Jun 26, 2014
Divided loyalties among the citizenry during World War I are still seen in today’s struggle with Russia.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2014
Gertrude Bell, who worked to stabilize Iraq after World War I, won hearts and minds but was unable to meld a mix of religious sects into a stable nation.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2014
Republicans hailed the ruling as a repudiation of what they called Mr. Obama’s abuse of his constitutional power when he tried in 2012 to fill vacancies at two federal agencies without Senate confirmation.
Source: Tennessean
Jun 26, 2014
Howard H. Baker, Jr., served 18 years in the U.S. Senate starting in 1966, when he became the first Republican to be popularly elected to the Senate from Tennessee.
Source: CNN
Jun 26, 2014
The war, which began nearly 100 years ago, produced its own crop of bionic men.
Source: BBC
Jun 26, 2014
In a moving ceremony, the leaders dedicated a memorial bench stamped with the word "peace" in the EU's 24 official languages.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2014
The photographs show a young man, held down in a bowing position by what appear to be five Red Guards, the youthful fanatics who terrorized China in the name of Chairman Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution.
Source: NYT
Jun 26, 2014
The court ruled unanimously that President Obama had violated the Constitution in 2012 by appointing officials to the National Labor Relations Board during a short break in the Senate’s work when the chamber was convening every three days in pro forma sessions.
Source: National Geographic
Jun 26, 2014
Al-Qaeda splinter group selling artifacts to buy weapons.
Source: Live Science
Jun 25, 2014
Archaeologists discovered the timber burial chamber within a 39-foot-high (12 meters) mound called a kurgan.
Source: National Geographic
Jun 25, 2014
Medgar was gunned down in his driveway on June 12, 1963.
Source: Playbill
Jun 25, 2014
"The musical Fannie Lou tells the story of Fannie Lou Hamer's voting rights struggle through her eyes and the eyes of various fictional characters, who represent a variety of viewpoints."
Source: The Daily Caller
Jun 25, 2014
“There’s no license for going it alone in our system.”
Source: Huffington Post
Jun 25, 2014
Or, more specifically, traces of Neanderthal feces taken from a Spanish cave.
Source: Time Magazine
Jun 25, 2014
Both San Francisco and Los Angeles campaigned to host the movie-memorabilia and art museum, but "aggressive" lobbying by Chicago won Lucas over.
Source: Las Vegas Review Journal
Jun 24, 2014
A handful of Filipino-American patriots in Las Vegas cheered on members of Congress Tuesday for insisting that the nation must follow through on a promise.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Jun 24, 2014
The survey follows President Barack Obama‘s announcement last week that he is deploying 300 military advisers to Baghdad to help the struggling Iraqi government.
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 24, 2014
The Senate bill comes after the House unanimously passed its own bipartisan FOIA reform bill.
Source: Discovery
Jun 24, 2014
The ingredients included aloe, gentian, rhubarb, Spanish saffron, Zedoary (white turmeric), and one part water to three parts alcohol.
Source: Press Release -- Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive
Jun 24, 2014
The Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to three newspaper titles published in Savannah from 1809 to 1880.
