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
7-17-17
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
7-13-17
Friends say he's been framed.
Source: NYT
7-15-17
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
7-15-17
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
7-14-17
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
7-12-17
Aaron Burr was. But presidents can't be.
Source: NYT
7-15-17
In 2016, China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage reported 103 tomb-raiding and cultural relic theft cases.
Source: thelocal.fr
7-16-17
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
7-14-17
by Ron Radosh
They weren't guilty of treason. (But they were found guilty of espionage.)
Source: NBC 5 Chicago
7-12-17
The rioting that began July 12, 1967, left 26 dead, more than 700 injured and nearly 1,500 arrested, mostly black.
Source: Time Magazine
7-12-17
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
7-13-17
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
7-11-17
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
7-12-17
A Japanese blogger says the key photograph was taken two years before her ill-fated trip.
Source: The Atlantic
7-12-17
by Gene B. Sperling and Chris Jennings
That’s what two key Democrats from the Clinton administration say.
Source: The Economist
7-11-17
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
7-12-17
It’s his 200th birthday.
Source: NYT
7-12-17
Only one close example: 1968. Perpetrator? Nixon.
Source: The Jerusalem Post
7-11-17
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
7-10-17
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev supported John F. Kennedy over incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential election.
