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.
Source: CNBC
July 17, 2017
Forty-one percent of Americans think Trump "should be impeached and compelled to leave the presidency," versus 53 percent who do not, according to the poll.
Source: Reuters
July 13, 2017
Friends say he's been framed.
Source: NYT
July 15, 2017
After 56 years and many investigations, there is new hope that secrets lurking in Western intelligence archives could solve the biggest whodunit in United Nations history: the mysterious death of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
Source: NYT
July 15, 2017
Descendants of hundreds of black men who were left untreated for syphilis during an infamous government study want a judge to award them any money remaining from a $9 million legal settlement over the program.
Source: The Telegraph
July 14, 2017
The faculty should not just be filled with “busts of 1920s bearded men” but rather more modern, diverse scholars so that King’s College London feels less “alienating," says dean.
Source: National Constitution Center
July 12, 2017
Aaron Burr was. But presidents can't be.
Source: NYT
July 15, 2017
In 2016, China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage reported 103 tomb-raiding and cultural relic theft cases.
Source: thelocal.fr
July 16, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday marked 75 years since the roundup of some 13,000 Jews to be sent to Nazi death camps, calling France's responsibility a "stark truth" at a ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Source: Daily Beast
July 14, 2017
by Ron Radosh
They weren't guilty of treason. (But they were found guilty of espionage.)
Source: NBC 5 Chicago
July 12, 2017
The rioting that began July 12, 1967, left 26 dead, more than 700 injured and nearly 1,500 arrested, mostly black.
Source: Time Magazine
July 12, 2017
Congress has long seen August as an ideal month for housekeeping in members' districts, and for a simple reason: It's too darn hot.
Source: Time Magazine
July 13, 2017
Christy Ford Chapin, author of Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System, says the key year was 1938.
Source: History channel
July 11, 2017
The massive stone wharf loomed over Rio de Janeiro’s harbor, serving as the arrival point for nearly a million enslaved Africans during the first half of the 19th century. Today, the ruins of the Valongo Wharf are the only physical remains of a slave trade port left standing in the Americas.
Source: USA Today
July 12, 2017
A Japanese blogger says the key photograph was taken two years before her ill-fated trip.
Source: The Atlantic
July 12, 2017
by Gene B. Sperling and Chris Jennings
That’s what two key Democrats from the Clinton administration say.
Source: The Economist
July 11, 2017
The mayor of what was the capital of the Confederacy wants to preserve its statues, but ensure the full history is told.
Source: The Boston Globe
July 12, 2017
It’s his 200th birthday.
Source: NYT
July 12, 2017
Only one close example: 1968. Perpetrator? Nixon.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
July 11, 2017
by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Almost everybody believes it’s true including Henry Kissinger (as related in his memoirs). It’s not.
Source: Time Magazine
July 10, 2017
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev supported John F. Kennedy over incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election.
