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
7-5-17
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
7-8-17
The first Hollywood blockbuster revived it.
Source: The Washington Post
7-9-17
“Hundreds of local citizens rose up in a non-violent protest against the hate that was being spewed in Justice Park.”
Source: NYT
7-4-17
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
7-8-17
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
7-10-17
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
7-7-17
"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
7-7-17
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
7-6-17
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
7-7-17
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
7-6-17
In 2010, the arts-and-crafts retailer purchased thousands of cultural artifacts smuggled from Iraq
Source: The Guardian
7-6-17
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
7-5-17
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
7-5-17
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
6-23-17
Authors included Michael Savage, Ann Coulter and Ronald Reagan.
Source: CNN
7-4-17
Sweden's Museum of Failure focuses on business failures like Trump’s monopoly-like board game.
Source: The Washington Post
6-30-17
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
7-1-17
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
7-1-17
The patriotic tune started off as an insult — until Americans appropriated it.
Source: ABC27
6-30-17
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.
