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: Forward
4-6-17
During the presidential campaign, several members of Le Pen’s close entourage have been suspected of sympathy for neo-Nazi groups and anti-Semitic propaganda.
4-6-17
The World War I Museum and Memorial hosted the national WWI centennial observance Thursday morning in Kansas City. Foreign dignitaries from 27 countries joined elected officials and regular Americans from 26 states.
Source: NPR
4-4-17
Run by the populist Law and Justice Party, it has declared the museum an expensive mess that waters down Polish history and should be closed — or at a minimum, revamped.
Source: King 5
4-4-17
In a video interview he recalled how as a Panther he demanded to watch the police carrying out their duties.
Source: The Washington Post
3-31-17
The monument isn’t a temple, obelisk or sculpture. It’s a mural installed in the spring of 1942 at the entrance to the Interior Department’s basement cafeteria.
Source: USA Today
4-4-17
Six months after the U.S. declared war on Germany in April 1917, Congress passed the War Risk Insurance Act.
Source: New York Magazine
4-5-17
Republicans have painted Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as a man whose character and legal scholarship are unimpeachable, but on Tuesday night he became the latest Trump pick to be accused of plagiarism.
Source: The Louisiana Weekly
4-3-17
Yes, there are enough Louisiana descendants to fill a room.
Source: The Telegraph
4-5-17
The former mayor of London refused to apologise after a disciplinary panel found him guilty of bringing the party into disrepute – but failed to expel him, instead ruling he will be suspended from holding office for a year.
Source: The Conversation
4-4-17
Almost half a million years ago, according to new data, water suddenly started cascading over the narrow strip of land that joined England and France – putting pressure on a chalk bridge.
Source: USA Today
4-3-17
In Kansas City, community leaders formed the Liberty Memorial Association in 1919 and in just 10 days raised $2.5 million (about $34 million in today's dollars) to build a memorial. One-quarter of the city’s population donated to the cause.
Source: Independent
4-3-17
They argued that it reminded them of murder and that it attracted visitors, compromising their right to privacy.
Source: USA Today
4-3-17
The change is called the "nuclear option" because it blows up both long-standing rules and bipartisanship in a chamber that has traditionally valued both.
Source: The Kansas City Star
4-2-17
“World War I changed everything.”
Source: Time Magazine
3-31-17
The newly released FBI images show firefighters and first responders working at the scene.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
4-3-17 (accessed)
Following the Charleston massacre, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched an effort to catalog and map Confederate place names and other symbols in public spaces, both in the South and across the nation. This study, while far from comprehensive, identified a total of 1,503.
Source: The Daily Beast
3-31-17
A century ago this week, the United States entered World War One. Unlike today, the children of America’s wealthiest families were the first into battle.
Source: CBS News
4-2-17
Museum curators in Scotland have discovered a piece of Egyptian history -- and they found it inside a crumpled up paper bag.
Source: NYT
3-30-17
The Tudor monarch is influencing Britain’s modern-day divorce from the Continent, with powers that were first used by the king set to be deployed to help unpack four decades of European Union membership.
Source: NYT
4-2-17
Separated from their family and exhibited in a human zoo during the 1930s, the last sisters face a new indignity: the sale of their childhood home.
