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
1-13-17
The remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi leader who was known as the “Angel of Death” for his torturous experiments on prisoners, are now being used to teach medical students at a Brazilian university.
Source: ABC News
1-13-17
Across China, a retrograde strain of populist nationalism is gaining strength as the ruling Communist Party intensifies its control over history and ideology.
Source: CNBC
1-15-17
A new poll from Gallup shows that just 44 percent of Americans approve of his presidential transition efforts while 51 percent disapprove.
Source: NYT
1-16-17
King's birthday falls within days of the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, an awkward time for towns like Lexington, which celebrates all three.
Source: ABC News
1-15-17
Trump is expected to visit the museum sometime after he assumes office, the sources say.
Source: NYT
1-13-17
That film image of Ms. Monroe’s skirt rising high in a gust of air? It’s a reshoot of a discarded and more risqué scene seldom seen until now.
Source: NYT
1-16-17
In an interview seven days before leaving office, Mr. Obama talked about the role books have played during his presidency and throughout his life.
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
1-15-17
In 22 counties — exactly a quarter of Ohio’s total — Trump rolled up the largest percentage of any Republican ever. Yes, that’s since 1856.
Source: NYT
1-12-17
At auction is the collection of the Hall of Presidents and First Ladies, a 60-year-old wax museum that has earnestly presented every occupant of the Oval Office — and their female counterparts — in varying degrees of accuracy.
Source: NY Daily News
1-13-17
There have been frequent threats against Kissinger in the past, most of them from Arab extremists.
Source: Quote
1-13-17 (accessed)
These are the ones that required a high reading level.
Source: Time Magazine
1-12-17
The British government has greenlit a controversial plan to build a 1.8-mile two-lane highway underneath Stonehenge, the iconic array of 4,000-year-old pillars in the south of England.
Source: Time Magazine
1-11-17
The comparison "coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust."
Source: NYT
1-12-17
The Reconstruction monument, backed by Eric Foner, includes several sites near Beaufort, S.C., which fell under control of the Union Army in November 1861, and became one of the first places where emancipated slaves voted, bought property and created churches, schools and businesses.
Source: Time Magazine
1-11-17
There was much ado about William G. McAdoo—Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law—who shaped the Federal Reserve and helped finance World War I.
Source: History channel
1-10-17
Obama is following a tradition that goes all the way back to George Washington, whose written message announcing his intention to step down from the presidency in 1796 still stands as the most famous presidential farewell in the nation’s history.
Source: Vox
1-11-17
It is simply not true that no one was so concerned about Rockefeller's potential financial conflicts of interest. On the contrary, in a September 1974 article, Linda Charlton reported for the New York Times: “Rockefeller Vows Full Cooperation.”
Source: NY Daily News
1-9-17
“We should be proud to make a strong statement that Americans value women, champion equality and honor the significant contributions of women throughout our history.”
Source: Radio Free Europe
1-11-17
A stone cross was smashed to pieces and two slabs bearing the names of the victims were painted with a Ukrainian flag, Ukrainian nationalist symbols, and a Nazi SS emblem.
Source: The Washington Post
1-10-17
Professor Michael Eric Dyson suggested donating to the United Negro College Fund or paying “the black person who cuts your grass double what you might ordinarily pay.”
