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: NYT
1-11-17
New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong?
Source: WSJ
1-10-17
Shandong Jianzhu University fired Deng Xiangchao for his ‘erroneous remarks’ on Weibo
Source: NYT
1-11-17
The “Eight-Year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression” will now be the “14-Year War,” with the starting date moved back to 1931, the government said.
Source: Politico
1-6-17
Documents indicate Kissinger told the Pinochet government not to cooperate with the US investigation of the assassination of Chile’s former ambassador to the US in Washington DC.
Source: NYT
1-9-17
Before Sotheby’s sells a long-held family trove of Alexander Hamilton’s documents, the public is invited to take a look.
Source: Slate
1-10-17
In the last half century only one cabinet nomination has been rejected, but others have been withdrawn.
Source: Iraqi News
1-9-17
"The majority of these places belong to Christianity, Yazdanism and Yarsanism (Kaka’i)."
Source: Johnson City Press
1-7-17
He wouldn’t be admitted today, but government officials say there’s nothing they can do about it.
Source: NYT
1-9-17
He prosecuted civil-rights activists in 1985, but his case fell apart.
Source: The Washington Post
1-8-17
The communications director for the office of the president, Eugene Arhin, took to Facebook to apologize for the "oversight.”
Source: The Telegraph
1-6-17
Representatives of the Herero and Nama peoples have filed a class action lawsuit to demand reparations for the systematic massacre of some 100,000 of their forebears between 1904 and 1908.
Source: NPR
1-9-17
The "Pioneer Cabin Tree," a sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, saw horses and cars pass through it over the years. More recently, only hikers were allowed to walk through the massive tree.
Source: Forbes
1-6-17
The average age of all 44 U.S. presidents who have taken office is just over 55 while Trump is 70.
Source: NYT
1-5-17
Caked in dust and dating back to 1674, the written records of a growing city are headed to new homes, to be preserved and made accessible to researchers.
Source: BBC
1-6-17
Japan has temporarily withdrawn its ambassador to South Korea, amid an escalating row over a statue representing wartime sex slaves.
Source: USA Today
1-3-17
Instead of building on his legacy, he'll be defending it.
Source: The National
1-4-17
A Glasgow University academic has claimed that military personnel are involved in the looting of historic sites in Syria and Iraq.
Source: NYT
1-1-17
It is perhaps the most significant artifact documenting the arrival of Jews in the New World: a small, tattered 16th-century manuscript written in an almost microscopic hand by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, the man whose life and pain it chronicled.
Source: NPR
1-4-17
Louisiana is losing its coast faster than any other place in the world.
Source: NPR
Mafia III, an action-adventure video game, is a provocative and in some ways cathartic alternate reality that directly confronts gamers of all walks of life with the reimagined raw trials of a protagonist rarely featured by the industry.
