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 Daily Beast
10-15-16
America’s oldest mystery—what happened to the first English colonists who disappeared with hardly a trace—is yielding tantalizing new clues to high-tech sleuths.
Source: Public Radio International
10-15-16
It’s the story of one of the best-known and most iconic episodes of World War II (for the Soviets): The sacrifice made by “Panfilov’s 28 Men" to save Moscow from the Germans.
Source: Financial Times
10-16-16
News and social media blackout amid worker’s expected liberation after 26 years.
Source: NPR
10-13-16
"Bob Dylan, like many if not most literary greats, is an alchemist. He manages to take materials from here and there and to turn them into something different — to make them larger, to make them his own."
Source: CBS News
10-16-16
"We don't want to repeat what happened in Afghanistan."
Source: Salon
10-14-16
Too good to be true? Looks like it was a hoax played on the Serbian magazine Nedeljnik.
Source: Public Radio International
10-12-16
Ann Major recently decided to digitize her grandfather’s movies. That’s when she found a little surprise.
Source: FiveThirtyEight
10-12-16
Trump could stage a comeback. It’s possible. But it would be basically unprecedented.
Source: Trade-Schools.net
10-13-16 (accessed)
28% of presidents never went to college.
Source: NYT
10-9-16
The film arrived to an estimated $7.1 million in ticket sales over the weekend, apparently unable to push past the controversy surrounding its director and star, Nate Parker.
Source: Time Magazine
10-10-16
"I was making the point that it is hard sometimes to get the congress to do what you want to do," Clinton said
Source: The Washington Post
10-10-16
A growing number of communities are now ditching the traditional Columbus Day holiday in favor of Indigenous People’s Day.
Source: Gizmodo
10-9-16
On Sunday, explosives experts were dispatched to Folly Island, South Carolina, after a resident found what appeared to be at least a dozen Civil War cannonballs uncovered by Hurricane Matthew.
Source: NYT
10-8-16
Debate over the merits and risks of America’s role as a moral authority has raged for decades, from the war in Vietnam, to Iraq, and now to Syria.
Source: The Root
10-9-16
After being in white hands for several generations, Turner’s descendants were able to retrieve his skull from a former Gary, Ind., mayor.
Source: NYT
10-7-16
The house’s materials have been shipped to an artist in Berlin, who wants to reconstruct the house to honor Ms. Parks’s life and her extraordinary role in the civil rights movement.
Source: The Washington Post
10-7-16
Cartoons and video like this are part of a new trend by Israel to conduct its public diplomacy — known as "hasbara" or explanation— via social media.
Source: NYT
10-8-16
Richard Winger, the editor of Ballot Access News, points out that in 1912, the Republican incumbent nominee for vice president, James Sherman, died in October.
Source: Time Magazine
10-5-16
From domes in Milwaukee to a steamboat in Louisiana
Source: Newsweek
10-5-16
The class, canceled and then reinstated, is taught by a Palestinian student
