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: NBC News
6-6-16
According to Gallup's polling of the issue, in 1975, 73 percent of voters said they would support a female nominee of their own party, compared to almost a quarter - 23 percent - who said they would not. In 1969, it was 53 percent to 40 percent.
Source: The Washington Post
6-5-16
Will Obama risk armed confrontation to save it?
Source: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
6-8-16
More than 16 thousand personal items belonging to the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau returned to the Memorial after many months of searching.
Source: The Telegraph
6-8-16
The group that expressed the least knowledge about the battle was the "baby boomer" generation, with 88 percent of those aged 55 to 64 saying they knew little or nothing about it.
Source: The Atlantic Journal-Constitution
6-8-16
Before the doors of President Barack Obama's library open on Chicago's South Side, truckloads of White House archives will be shipped to a former furniture store in the northwest suburbs.
Source: The Yorkshire Post
6-7-16
Some of the rhetoric from Brexiters during the EU referendum campaign raises the spectre of an all-powerful Germany dominating a European super state with thinly veiled references to the Nazi period often part of the narrative.
Source: New Historian
6-7-16
Breeding with Neanderthals may have had a heavy price for early humans, according to a new study published recently in the journal GENETICS.
Source: The Conversation
6-7-16
by Mark McLay
He’s got three choices.
Source: Forward
6-5-16
She saved at least 12 Jews during the Holocaust, hiding them in the convent in Rome where she served as mother superior.
Source: The Conversation
6-3-16
The Cornish language “Kernewek” is one of the oldest tongues still spoken in Britain today.
Source: The Telegraph
6-6-16
Historian Florian Kotanko has claimed that Adolf Hitler had a disabled younger brother who died of hydrocephalus when the Nazi dictator was three years’ old.
Source: Time Magazine
6-4-16
Thousands of people gathered in Hong Kong's Victoria Park to commemorate the brutal suppression of pro-democracy protesters in Beijing at the hands of the Chinese army 27 years ago
Source: Time Magazine
6-3-16
Similar attempts to disqualify minority judges have long been dismissed
Source: The New Yorker
6-3-16
The discovery of a three-thousand-year-old settlement at Must Farm is reshaping the view of Britain’s Bronze Age.
Source: CNN
6-3-16
A four-page love letter written by John F. Kennedy to his mistress is being auctioned.
Source: MSN
6-3-16
Ford had more experience than Carter and lost. Carter had more experience than Reagan and lost. Bush I had more experience than Bill Clinton and lost. See a theme here?
Source: Newsy
6-2-16
The country is already known for censorship, but it gets even worse on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square.
Source: The World Weekly
5-30-16
The Saudis agreed to use petrodollars earned from the sale of oil to US to purchase treasury bonds to finance our debt.
Source: NPR
6-2-16
The discovery, a collection of more than 400 Roman waxed writing tablets, was announced Wednesday by the Museum of London Archaeology.
Source: NYT
6-2-16
The iron blade of an ornate dagger buried in Egypt with King Tutankhamen probably came from a fallen meteorite, researchers have determined — a form of metal so prized by ancient Egyptians that they called it “iron from the sky.”
