Breaking News

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.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-18-17
  

  Trump wants a military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on July 4th

  We've had them before, though not during most of the Cold War; most presidents then thought they would remind people of the USSR.

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• SOURCE: The Weekly Standard
  9-18-17
  

  What Happens When an Entire Campus Is Rooted in the Confederacy?

  That's the question facing administrators as students return to campus across the South.

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• SOURCE: Irish Central
  9-17-17
  

  Short film reveals the terrible history of No Irish Need Apply

  A collage of newspaper ads showcases the evidence that the Irish faced discrimination in the 19th century.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  9-15-17
  

  California Assembly votes to support censure of Trump over comments on Charlottesville violence

  The Assembly passed a resolution 41 to 5 to denounce comments by the president that seemed to equate white supremacists and neo-Nazis with the protesters demonstrating against them.

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• SOURCE: Ars Technica
  9-14-17
  

  New evidence of Viking warrior women might not be what it seems

  Experts cast doubt on a recent DNA discovery in a mysterious Swedish grave.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-14-17
  

  Faculty Letter at Brown University Intensifies Standoff Over Tribe’s Claim to Land

  A Native American group argues that a plot of land owned by the university is theirs by ancestral right. Scholars of indigenous studies at Brown cast doubt on the claim.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-15-17
  

  NYT busts the story that William Howard Taft got stuck in a tub and had to be lifted out by 6 men

  It’s long been derided as myth, but the story keeps popping up.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-13-17
  

  Bloodstained ice axe used to kill Trotsky emerges after decades in the shadows

  Weapon used in 1940 assassination to go on display next year – but why did Ramón Mercader, armed with a gun and a dagger, resort to the ice pick?

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• SOURCE: ynetnews.com
  9-13-17
  

  Textbook featuring Israeli flag raises ire in Egypt

  Study book for eight graders shows the Israeli flag instead of the Palestinian one on a map of the Middle East, causing the Education Ministry in the country to order the removal of the controversial page from the book and bar it from further distribution while it investigates the matter.

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• SOURCE: Star Tribune
  9-14-17
  

  University of Minnesota to probe its history of racism and anti-Semitism

  A committee was launched in response to a stunning new exhibit.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-15-17
  

  When History’s Losers Write the Story

  It’s a worldwide phenomenon.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  9-12-17
  

  Steve Bannon has a Nazi Problem

  “Bannon sees the Pepes as kind of like trolls, and not like the Nazis like Richard Spencer and David Duke,” said one person who spoke to Bannon. “Everybody’s kind of struggling with it.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9-13-17
  

  Study: Vietnam dramatically changed our views on soldiers, honor and war

  by Richard Lachmann

  Today the media often tell the stories of individual soldiers. In Vietnam they rarely did.

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• SOURCE: UVA Center for Politics
  9-14-17
  

  Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists

  Survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics measures racial sentiments in aftermath of August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-13-17
  

  University of Virginia President Says Protesters Who Shrouded Jefferson Statue ‘Desecrated’ Campus

  The protest occurred on the one-month anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

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• SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
  9-12-17
  

  Virginia Military Institute leaders say military college will keep Confederate statues

  Other vestiges of the school’s Confederate ties — such as battle flags, the playing of “Dixie” and cadet salutes to a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson — already have been phased out.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-13-17
  

  McCain and Kerry outline lessons from Vietnam after watching new Ken Burns documentary

  Hundreds of Washington insiders gathered last night in the Kennedy Center Opera House for an advance screening of Ken Burns's new documentary on Vietnam.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-13-17
  

  America's shameful history of voter suppression

  Voter fraud is more rare than being struck by lightning, yet the fear-mongering persists. Don’t blame Donald Trump – blame America’s democratic model.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-10-17
  

  Dry Cleaning the City’s Oldest Maps

  “It’s really saving New York history. We are the custodians of this history.”

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  9-11-17
  

  Snopes fact checks meme that equates Lincoln's and Lee’s views on slavery

  The meme omits context and cites a dubious claim about Lee.