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: Toronto Star
  6-24-17
  

  Float in Montreal Fête nationale parade sparks outrage

  Clip viewed more than 200,000 times on Facebook shows four Black men pushing a float by hand, followed by an all-white chorus.

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• SOURCE: Civil War Memory
  6-23-17
  

  Is Jimmy Carter a fan of the Lost Cause myth?

  by Kevin Levin

  A researcher reports that Carter believes that public plaques should feature the Lost Cause interpretation of the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  6-16-17
  

  Georgia lawmaker punished for Civil War mailer

  The state legislator denied that slavery caused the war.

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• SOURCE: Your Daily Record
  6-23-17
  

  Free speech to be front and center at Gettysburg battle anniversary

  One group set up a Facebook page: "Support America and Her History, Rally! If You Hate US, Leave!"

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  6-22-17
  

  Peek Inside Jackie Kennedy’s $49.5 Million Childhood Home

  Located in the affluent suburb of McLean, Va., the hefty price tag makes the property, called Merrywood, the most expensive in the region.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-23-17
  

  Six Nazi spies were executed in D.C. White supremacists gave them a memorial — on federal land

  The National Park Service discovered the memorial in 2006, but it remained unknown until a journalist happened to learn of it.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-23-17
  

  Khmer Rouge Trial, Perhaps the Last, Nears End in Cambodia

  The genocide trial of two senior Khmer Rouge leaders concluded its hearings on Friday with an angry scolding by the lawyer for one defendant and a humble bow to the victims by the other.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Standard
  6-22-17
  

  Ku Klux Klan still a threat in America, ADL says

  The findings of an Anti-Defamation League report released this week found that 42 KKK groups are active in 33 states, with an estimate of some 3,000 members. More than half the groups were either formed or restarted in the past three years.

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• SOURCE: CBC News
  6-25-17
  

  4 Indigenous people share why they won't be singing O Canada on July 1

  "You're celebrating colonization."

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  6-21-17
  

  Support grows for Smithsonian museum of women’s history

  “I believe that there’s no reason not to support it,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), who introduced the bill. “It helps the country, it helps women, and it’s truly bipartisan.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-22-17
  

  History Lesson: How the Democrats pushed Obamacare through the Senate

  The key work on creating the Senate version of the ACA was done in secret.

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• SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal Constitution
  6-22-17
  

  Oldest women’s college in US – Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia – seeks to atone for Ku Klux Klan’s legacy

  For decades, successive generations of school leaders seemed to downplay the troubling history, but now they are preparing to formally acknowledge Wesleyan’s Klan history, as well as ties to slavery.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  6-22-17
  

  Ancient Egyptian Writing: New Symbols Reveal Development Of Hieroglyphics

  A new discovery may hold some clues as to how carved images evolved into a formal writing system.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-21-17
  

  Dr. Suess museum chided for failing to address head-on his racist statements during WW2

  It completely overlooks Mr. Geisel’s anti-Japanese cartoons from World War II, which he later regretted.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6-20-17
  

  Congress Has a History of Legislating in Secrecy

  by Julian Zelizer (Interview)

  Medicare was largely designed in secret, though there had been public hearings. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-20-17
  

  At James Madison’s home, slaves’ lives matter as much as the man who owned them

  With the help of a $10 million gift from philanthropist David Rubenstein, the Montpelier staff has devoted new attention and resources to tell their story.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6-22-17
  

  Destroying Great Mosque of al-Nuri 'is Isis declaring defeat'

  Iraqi PM denounces levelling of Mosul building where Islamic State leader declared a caliphate three years ago.

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• 6-19-17
  

  At Watergate, Recalling a Burglary That Toppled a President

  It was a historic reunion, the guests told one another, held this weekend to mark the 45th anniversary of the 1972 Watergate break-in.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  6-20-17
  

  Hidden Trove of Suspected Nazi Artifacts Found in Argentina

  Some 75 objects were found in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-19-17
  

  Stephen Breyer cites a history of executive branch abuses in stinging dissent

  He cites Alien and Sedition Acts, suppression of civil liberties in the Civil War, and the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.