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: The Washington Examiner
12-28-16
Brinkley met with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago.
Source: Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal
12-27-16
Other American administrations regularly have abstained or supported U.N. resolutions critical of Israeli policy.
Source: The Guardian
12-25-16
It has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia.
Source: The Washington Post
12-28-16
The title of the course — “The Problem of Whiteness” — and its description has the University of Wisconsin at Madison mired in controversy before students have cracked open a book or peeked at a syllabus.
Source: Brookings Institution
12-16-16
"Never in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump."
Source: Time Magazine
12-27-16
The school has now pledged to strengthen Holocaust awareness by screening films like Schindler’s List.
Source: The Grio
12-26-16
The bill is an expansion of a previous bill of the same name that was passed by the House of Representatives in 2007.
Source: NYT
12-26-16
It now appears that the Japanese prime minister is the fourth to visit, and that one of the previous three includes Nobusuke Kishi, his grandfather.
Source: The Wire
12-24-16
India drops a section of a textbook that described how female members of the lower caste were forced to pay a tax if they chose in the early 1800s to cover their breasts.
Source: CBS News
12-24-16
In states including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico, legislators have said they plan to introduce legislation that would require their state’s Electoral College voters cast ballots for the presidential candidate who earns the most votes nationwide, regardless of the statewide results.
Source: NYT
12-23-16
The highest-ranking Canadian soldier killed in action during World War II was shot in a largely forgotten fight that left nearly 3,000 soldiers dead, 290 of then Canadian.
Source: The Chicago Tribune
12-23-16
Though the Obama library fundraising effort will span the nation and possibly the globe, it's likely to hold special appeal to Chicago's philanthropists, said a local fundraising specialist.
Source: Seeker
12-22-16
Italian researchers have discovered what might be the oldest nativity scene ever found — 5,000-year-old rock art that depicts a star in the east, a newborn between parents and two animals.
Source: Fox News
12-21-16
The Seton Hall Law Center uncovered an internal FBI memo dating July 17, 1950 that determined there was “insufficient evidence” to arrest her.
Source: The Guardian
12-20-16
The trust will publish a new guidebook next year telling the LGBTQ history of some of its properties, and put on a range of events under the headline Prejudice and Pride.
Source: Atlanta Black Star
12-21-16
“In the end, slavery was actually a positive thing for the world because people learned to fight for who they are.” – Student
Source: The Los Angeles Times
12-21-16
One professor's database cites 81 attempts by the United States to influence elections in other countries, notably in Iran, Guatemala and Chile.
Source: National Security Archive
12-22-16
The President was told a nuclear exchange could cost the lives of 80 million Americans.
Source: Atlantic
12-21-16
In an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who backs reparations, Obama said "it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation’s resources over a long period of time to make that right."
Source: Newsweek
12-21-16
The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act erodes some of the legal technicalities that art museums have used to hold on to Nazi-looted art when faced with claims.
