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: WaPo
  5-27-17
  

  This is why presidents want backchannels and how it can go wrong

  by Richard A. Moss

  Other presidents have set up back channels too

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• SOURCE: Political Wire
  5-26-17
  

  Trump Angled for Soviet Posting In the 1980s

  “Donald Trump, in the mid-1980s, aggressively pursued an official government post to the USSR, according to a Nobel Peace Prize winner with whom Trump interacted at the time.”

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  5-25-17
  

  Places That Are Actually Worth Visiting

  Eric Foner suggests Beaufort, SC Reconstruction Site.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-26-17
  

  JFK’s last birthday: Gifts, champagne and wandering hands on the presidential yacht

  How did Kennedy celebrate his 46th birthday — the last of his short life? On a boat, with Dom Pérignon, French cuisine and the president chasing the wife of a legendary Washington journalist.

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• SOURCE: Bozeman Daily Chronicle
  5-24-17
  

  Bozeman schools prefer kids in class on MLK Day

  As more families from other states move to Bozeman, some parents are surprised or upset to learn that kids here don’t get a holiday from school on Martin Luther King Day.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  5-25-17
  

  Universities across the country are facing up to their past association with slavery

  But many struggle to decide how far they should go.

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• SOURCE: The National Coalition for History
  5-23-17
  

  Trump Budget Proposes Devastating Cuts to Federal History, Archival & Education Programs

  It includes cuts to federal history and humanities funding including elimination of the (NEH),  (NHPRC), K-12 history and civics grants.

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• SOURCE: Think Progress
  5-24-17
  

  Alabama governor signs law giving thousands of felons their right to vote back

  The state has been relying on a century-old, white supremacist phrase to disenfranchise felons.

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• SOURCE: The Jerusalem Post
  5-24-17
  

  Jerusalem Post recalls history of the Six-Day War

  Egyptian President Nasser’s aggressive moves along the border.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  5-24-17 (accessed)
  

  Smithsonian launches campaign to raise $10 million for women’s history initiative

  The money will help pay for the hiring of six curators.

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• SOURCE: Political Wire
  5-23-17
  

  Trump Was Not Always So Linguistically Challenged

  “STAT reviewed decades of Trump’s on-air interviews and compared them to Q&A sessions since his inauguration. The differences are striking and unmistakable.”

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• SOURCE: Townsville Bulletin
  5-22-17
  

  75th anniversary of the World War 2 black uprising that the American public never heard about

  It happened in Australia in May 1942 when US black troops staged a mutiny against their harsh white officers who objected to the races mixing.

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• SOURCE: Daily Kos
  5-23-17
  

  Longest serving governor in U.S. history to resign after confirmation as Trump's ambassador to China

  GOP Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds will assume office following Branstad’s resignation, and the state’s first woman governor subsequently will face election to a full term in 2018.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  5-23-17
  

  Did the First Human Ancestor Emerge in Europe, Not Africa?

  New analysis of two fossil specimens found in Greece and Bulgaria has led a team of international scientists to a stunning conclusion: The fossilized lower jawbone and teeth, which date back some 7.2 million years, belonged not to an ape but to a hominin, or early human ancestor.

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  5-23-17
  

  Trump calls Nazi Holocaust 'history's darkest hour'

  President Donald Trump paid tribute at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, calling it an indescribable act of evil.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5-20-17
  

  The six-day war: why Israel is still divided over its legacy 50 years on

  Some celebrate the 1967 conflict as a liberation, others believe it launched a disastrous occupation.

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• SOURCE: 60 Minutes
  5-21-17
  

  "Space archaeology" transforms how ancient sites are discovered

  Archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses satellite photos to locate ancient sites and she's finding them -- thousands.

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• SOURCE: Philly.com
  5-21-17
  

  A military cemetery whose African American history is hidden in plain sight in Philadelphia

  Plaques honor white soldiers. None minor blacks.

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• SOURCE: KRISTV
  5-20-17
  

  Texas Senate increases education board's textbook veto power

  A bill passed Friday lets the board's 15 elected members reject textbook content deemed not "suitable for the subject and grade level."

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• SOURCE: Tablet Magazine
  5-17-17
  

  The Secret Transcripts of the Six-Day War

  Newly unsealed classified documents reveal: Jerusalem conquered almost by accident; Israel’s National Religious Party, forerunner to the settler movement, lobbied for military de-escalation at every turn; and nobody in Israel’s security cabinet seems to have seen the country’s most momentous war coming.