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: Huffington Post
Jun 12, 2014
It's no secret that when the economy takes a turn for the worse, racial minorities often take a disproportionate hit. But why?
Source: NYT
Jun 11, 2014
The artist’s signature was spelled incorrectly: Pollok instead of Pollock.
Source: Ahram
Jun 11, 2014
Egypt's embassy in London has received 12 ancient Egyptian artefacts stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country after the 2011 revolution.
Source: AP
Jun 11, 2014
The deaths of five Americans killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan stand as a fresh reminder of the dangers of friendly fire, an element of war that is older than the nation.
Source: Johnson's Russia List
Jun 11, 2014
According to a poll conducted by the Levada Center, the share of Russians who support the idea of an independent Russia has increased over the last year from 53 percent to 71 percent.
Source: The Guardian
Jun 11, 2014
"The whole thing is exceedingly dangerous."
Source: NBC
Jun 11, 2014
20 years ago Simpson murdered his ex-wife (as a civil court found).
Source: National Security Archive
Jun 9, 2014
A recently declassified report by Sandia National Laboratory, published today by the National Security Archive, provides new details on the 1961 Goldsboro, North Carolina, nuclear weapons accident.
Source: Truthout
Jun 9, 2014
Ellsberg suspects their real aim was to provoke China into responding.
Source: Japan Focus
Jun 9, 2014
by Michael Rank
George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four is just the kind of book that you would expect to be banned in China, all that talk of Big Brother, Newspeak and the rewriting of history is far too close to the bone.
Source: BBC
Jun 9, 2014
Forensic scientists looking for the body of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes say they have found five possible sites at a Madrid church.
Source: The Telegraph
Jun 9, 2014
Here, we look at the most expensive coins ever sold.
Source: The Telegraph
Jun 9, 2014
The rare 1731 Stradivarius violin found at Manhattan home of Huguette Clark, late heiress to $500m copper fortune, is expected to fetch $10m at auction.
Source: Oregonlive.com
Jun 8, 2014
Some sections now lie beneath the James River.
Jun 8, 2014
Archaeologists are investigating the remains of a settlement estimated to date to the late Neolithic, about 5800 BCE.
Source: Civil War Memory
Jun 7, 2014
The Citadel could lose nearly $1 million in Charleston County funding if it does not agree to remove a Confederate flag from Summerall Chapel, Councilman Henry Darby.
Source: American Spectator
Jun 6, 2014
by Mark Tooley
Conservatives ridicule the "odd coalition" that opposes the prayer's placement on the Mall.
Source: NYT
Jun 6, 2014
At least 5,000 of combat vehicles returned to Normandy to commemorate the battle’s 70th anniversary.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 6, 2014
The Queen’s parents were nearly killed in the Second World War.
Source: Ohio State University -- Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
Jun 6, 2014
#2: The invasion was a compromise.
