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: Johnson’s Russia List
July 5, 2017
The periodic increases and current decrease in the number of births in Russia reflects the third echo of World War II, Anatoly Vishnevsky says, with the low number of births in 1943 leading to demographic declines approximately every 25 years thereafter.
Source: The Washington Post
July 8, 2017
The first Hollywood blockbuster revived it.
Source: The Washington Post
July 9, 2017
“Hundreds of local citizens rose up in a non-violent protest against the hate that was being spewed in Justice Park.”
Source: NYT
July 4, 2017
A new genetic analysis finds that ancient Africans walked into Europe 270,000 years ago, much earlier than previously known, and interbred with Neanderthals.
Source: Politico
July 8, 2017
The New York Democrat, whose district includes Trump Tower, is on a mission to sell her idea to the women in the White House.
Source: BBC
July 10, 2017
South Korea has released what it says is the first known footage of "comfort women" forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War Two.
Source: Political Wire
July 7, 2017
"The Republican health care effort is the most unpopular legislation in three decades — less popular than the Affordable Care Act when it was passed, the widely hated Troubled Asset Relief Program bank bailout bill in 2008, and even President Bill Clinton’s failed health reform effort in the 1990s."
Source: NYT
July 7, 2017
In recent years, archivists, historians and librarians have been asked to curate the aftermath of catastrophes: school massacres, a nightclub siege, a bombing, a rampage during a Bible study.
Source: The Washington Post
July 6, 2017
Though the president did not visit the site, his daughter Ivanka Trump — a convert to Judaism — visited Thursday afternoon to lay a wreath.
Source: The Times of Israel
July 7, 2017
Israel says resolution calling the biblical Tomb of the Patriarchs a Palestinian heritage site is ‘shameful’; second anti-Israel vote in three days.
Source: Smithsonian
July 6, 2017
In 2010, the arts-and-crafts retailer purchased thousands of cultural artifacts smuggled from Iraq
Source: The Guardian
July 6, 2017
Head of Iraq inquiry says he does not believe former PM was clear enough about his decisions in the run-up to war.
Source: The Washington Post
July 5, 2017
Investigators believe they have discovered the “smoking gun” that would support a decades-old theory that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were captured by the Japanese.
Source: NYT
July 5, 2017
A meeting of President John F. Kennedy and Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1961 points to the hazards of walking into such a session without clear strategic goals.
Source: WND
June 23, 2017
Authors included Michael Savage, Ann Coulter and Ronald Reagan.
Source: CNN
July 4, 2017
Sweden's Museum of Failure focuses on business failures like Trump’s monopoly-like board game.
Source: The Washington Post
June 30, 2017
The group debated about what action to take before settling on repairing the sign with handwritten notes and drawings that both memorialized Till but also did what the sign no longer could do: educate others about what had transpired at that place.
Source: AP
July 1, 2017
Two of the Confederate Army’s best-known leaders have streets named for them in a place not normally associated with the Southern side of the Civil War – New York City. Now some elected officials are trying to undo it.
Source: NYT
July 1, 2017
The patriotic tune started off as an insult — until Americans appropriated it.
Source: ABC27
June 30, 2017
Senate Bill 723 calls for students to take a test identical to the civics portion of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ naturalization test, the exam all immigrants must pass when applying for U.S. citizenship.
