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
1-20-16
A dig in Kenya has uncovered the remains of a slaughter from 10,000 years ago, suggesting that warfare may have existed even before humans began agriculture.
Source: Time Magazine
1-20-16
The legal standard that allows such cases is less than a decade old.
Source: ARCA blog
1-20-16
The monastery known in English as the Saint Elijah Monastery or the Dair Mar Elia, ((دير مار إيليا) has been obliterated by ISIS/ISIL sometime prior to September 28, 2014.
Source: Politico
1-20-16
The library is set to make public nearly 500 pages of records pertaining to Trump, detailing the Clinton White House's interactions with Trump and his Trump Organization, as well as how Clinton aides prepared to field questions about Trump's entry into the 2000 presidential race.
Source: Politico
1-18-16
Two new documents reveal the political blueprint the billionaire developed 40 years ago, heavily influenced by the ultraconservative John Birch Society.
Source: The Washington Post
1-19-16
GM introduced lead into gasoline. The Flint River was where lead in cars wound up.
Source: Oregon Live
1-18-16
It’s not what you think it is.
Source: CBC News
1-18-16
City officials launched campaign to condemn buildings, says University of Victoria professor
Source: KFOR
1-18-16
It was August 19, 1958 when a group of children in Oklahoma City walked into Katz Drugstore, sat down at the lunch counter and asked for service.
Source: Rasmussen Reports
1-18-16
Views of Martin Luther King Jr. Day haven’t changed, but even after seven years of having the first black president in office, Americans are more dubious than ever that King’s dream of equal opportunity has been achieved. Blacks are the most skeptical.
Source: The Daily Beast
1-17-16
French researchers have uncovered secret love letters between Marie Antoinette and a Swedish count. A new book suggests the doomed queen may have borne his children.
Source: NYT
1-16-15
The mogul’s purchase of the Plaza Hotel in 1988 offers insight into the methods and thinking of a deal maker turned presidential candidate.
Source: Afflict the Comfortable (blog)
1-15-16
by Robert Buzzanco
Get your “I Have a Dream” fortune told at a 1-800 number; make a cake with “Batter from a Birmingham Jail”; drink an “I’ve Been to the Mountain Dew Top.”
Source: CBS
1-15-16
Twenty-five years ago, the first U.S. airstrikes began on Baghdad in Operation Desert Storm. In just six weeks, U.S. forces expelled the Iraqi military from Kuwait. David Martin spoke to Colin Powell about what we learned from the first Gulf War.
Source: WSJ
1-15-16
Parents groups object to what they see as an overly benign depiction of the religion
Source: ExtremeTech
1-14-15
The march of progress in genetic analysis could give them this chance, as the country prepares to host the largest mass identification effort in history, potentially involving hundreds of thousands of bodies in the end.
Source: The Washington Post
1-15-16
The question of whether someone had issued a “stand down” has loomed over Benghazi since the immediate aftermath of the attacks.
Source: Huffington Post
1-13-16
The chancellor of Oxford University has warned against rewriting history in his first public comments on a student campaign to remove a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes from one of the university's colleges.
Source: The Baltimore Sun
1-14-16
University of Maryland law professor Larry S. Gibson, a commission member, proposed the plan to remove the Roger B. Taney Monument on Mount Vernon Place and the Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson Monument in the Wyman Park Dell.
Source: NYT
1-13-16
Reacting to growing nationalist sentiments, lawmakers have agreed to debate a bill that, while not scrapping the national anthem, would create another one to be played for England’s sports teams.
