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
  9-24-16
  

  Clinton-Trump Debate Expected to Be Rare Draw in a Polarized Age

  It could well draw 100 million viewers.

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  9-24-16
  

  Obama hails opening of the African American Museum

  ‘This place is more than a building. It is a dream come true.’

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• 9-22-16
  

  Palestinians' Abbas seeks British apology for 1917 Jewish homeland declaration

  Speaking at the U.N. General Assembly, Abbas said that the Palestinian people had suffered greatly because of the Balfour Declaration in which Britain said it favored the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine but that this should not undermine the rights of others living there.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-23-16
  

  Anger as Churchill's home turned into Hitler HQ for Transformers 5

  War veterans are horrified that Blenheim Palace has been draped in swastika flags for Michael Bay’s latest film

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9-23-16
  

  CIA: “Pinochet personally ordered” Letelier bombing

  A CIA special intelligence assessment in 1987 concluded that Chilean General Augusto Pinochet ordered an “act of state terrorism” on the streets of Washington, D.C., that took the lives of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-21-16
  

  Modern Technology Unlocks Secrets of a Damaged Biblical Scroll

  Experts using a computer imaging program have virtually unwrapped a charred ancient scroll and recovered a fragment of the authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-21-16
  

  How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Africa

  Unprecedented DNA analyses of people in indigenous populations suggest that almost all non-Africans trace their roots to one migration from the continent.

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  9-20-16
  

  Meet the Woman Who Is Preserving the Smell of History

  Cecilia Bembibre, a doctoral candidate at University College London, is attempting to preserve history like very few before her. She’s cataloging the smells.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  9-19-16
  

  Documents Belonging to “Scotland’s Schindler” Discovered

  Jane Haining was a missionary with the Church of Scotland when she gave her life protecting Jewish schoolgirls.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-20-16
  

  ‘You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake.’ Fliers like these are showing up on lawns across the U.S.

  Similar packages have recently turned up in communities around the country — from California to Kansas to New Jersey.

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• SOURCE: The Poynter Institute
  9-20-16
  

  Obama loses battle to keep World War II records secret

  A federal court has rejected a Justice Department attempt to keep secret the testimony from a 74-year-old prosecution of The Chicago Tribune for revealing that the U.S. had cracked Japanese codes.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-20-16
  

  Wage gap between white and black Americans is worse today than in 1979

  Black men’s average hourly wages went from being 22.2% lower in 1979 to 31.0% lower in 2015; for black women the wage gap went from 6% to 19%

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• SOURCE: Forward
  9-20-16
  

  Berkeley Reinstates ‘Zionism-is-Colonialism’ Course After Free Speech Outcry

  The University of California Berkeley has reinstated a student-led course called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” after public outcry over its suspension last week.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-19-16
  

  Why a President Trump Could Start a Trade War With Surprising Ease

  Mr. Trump has said that as president he would “rip up” international trade deals. And there’s very little Congress can do to stop him, even if the result is a costly trade war.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-17-16
  

  Alexandria will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway

  In a town that once took considerable pride in its Confederate past, the Alexandria City Council voted unanimously Saturday to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway and seek permission from the Virginia General Assembly to move a renowned statue of a Confederate soldier in historic Old Town.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  9-19-16
  

  The Impact of Debates? It's Debatable

  A review of data since 1960 suggests that past debates have almost never directly and measurably changed the candidates' relative standings.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-16-16
  

  Stunning pictures from inside the new National Museum of African American History and Culture

  Appropriately for a public museum at the heart of Washington’s cultural landscape, the museum’s creators did not want to build a space for a black audience alone, but for all Americans.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-18-16
  

  Washington DC’s monument to black history

  Decades after it was first dreamed of, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, completed by British architect David Adjaye, opens this week. While the building is striking, its collection is more remarkable.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-18-16
  

  Holocaust Survivors’ Needs Grow, and Aid Is Slow to Catch Up

  Aging and often infirm and isolated, the remaining survivors require more help even as traditional sources of funding are starting to taper off.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  9-16-16
  

  Will Victims of Nazi Art Thieves Finally Get Justice?

  Some courts say too much time has passed for descendants to get back the masterpieces the Nazis stole. Families say no—and Congress is stepping in.