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: Politico
  7-26-17
  

  Half of Trump voters say Trump won popular vote

  A Politico/Morning Consult poll out early Wednesday found 49 percent of Trump voters think he won the popular vote, compared to just 40 percent who think Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won it.

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  7-14-17
  

  100-Year-Old Photos Reveal Antarctica Like You've Never Seen It

  Pictures captured by photographer Herbert Ponting in the early 20th century show the coldest continent before climate change took hold.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7-24-17
  

  What John McCain Can Learn From Clair Engle

  by James Fallows

  Half a century ago, a senator battling a brain tumor took to the Senate floor, and secured his legacy.

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• SOURCE: Ozy
  7-25-17
  

  Meet the Guardian of Palestine's Past

  Ahmad Mrowat is gradually piecing together Palestine’s history — one photograph and document at a time.

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• SOURCE: The National Coalition for History
  7-21-17
  

  House approves bills that most affect the historical community that Trump wanted to ax

  They include funding for the NEH & NHPRC, with only limited cuts.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-23-17
  

  Canada’s Treaty Payments: Meager Reminder of a Painful History

  Indigenous people in Canada stand in line to receive a $5 payment.  Yes, they're upset about that.

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• SOURCE: Times Live
  7-24-17
  

  Volkswagen aided Brazil dictatorship's repression

  German car giant Volkswagen aided Brazil's 1964-85 military government in identifying and persecuting political dissenters among its workforce in the country.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-24-17
  

  Philippines’s Duterte keeps lashing out at the United States — over atrocities a century ago

  Duterte has repeatedly criticized the United States for killing thousands of Filipinos during the Philippine-American war.

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• SOURCE: Newsweek
  7-24-17
  

  No President Has Pardoned Himself, But Governors and A Drunk Mayor Have

  Those gubernatorial cases could provide a precedent if Trump chooses to pardon himself.

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• SOURCE: Politifact
  7-21-17
  

  Nixon sometimes met with leaders without his own translator

  President Donald Trump’s private discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit is highly unusual but not completely without precedent.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  7-23-17
  

  How do you memorialize fallen in a war without end?

  An effort is underway to revise a law that prevents memorials from being built on there Mall for wars still in progress.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-21-17
  

  NYT begins new series depicting lives of people on the front lives of the civil rights movement

  The first installment profiles Elmore Nickleberry, a Memphis sanitation worker – still on the job! – who was involved in the 1968 strike that drew MLK's attention.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-20-17
  

  "Game of Thrones" creators sell show to HBO that imagines a world in which the Confederacy won

  Historians are worried.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-21-17
  

  North Korean travel ban marks return to Cold War-era restrictions on U.S. citizens abroad

  The decision to ban travel by U.S. citizens to a foreign country marks an unusual policy shift for the State Department, harking back to restrictions on travel not widely used since the Cold War era.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-17
  

  Can the President Be Indicted?

  A long-hidden legal memo says yes.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-17
  

  Trump Says He Has ‘Complete Power’ to Pardon

  He won't use that power now, he says, but reserves the right to use not later. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-21-17
  

  Bag With Moon Dust in It Fetches $1.8 Million From a Mystery Buyer

  A lunar landing, a museum loan, a theft, a critical error, a legal battle — and now, a sale at auction. What’s next for this bag of moon dust?

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-22-17
  

  Trump’s Attack on Russia Inquiry Is From Familiar Playbook: The Clintons’

  The president’s strategy for navigating the inquiry is adopted from the Clintons’ approach to the Whitewater and Lewinsky investigations.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-21-17
  

  Trump got history wrong in interview with NYT

  He cited Napoleon a few times.  But did he know who the was talking about?

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-19-17
  

  A Century-Old Abraham Lincoln Mystery May Finally Have an Answer

  Linguistic experts say they know who wrote the famous Bixby letter. It wasn’t Lincoln.