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: WSJ
11-19-15
Whether residents of Washington, D.C., can carry firearms in the street has prompted examination of English law from the Middle Ages
Source: WSET
11-19-15
Historians immediately responded with scorn.
Source: NYT
11-20-15
Joachim Ronneberg of Norway says that just before his sabotage mission, he happened upon a tool that was crucial in destroying the Nazis’ supply of a fluid used to create nuclear weapons.
Source: Inside Higher ED
11-19-15
The same day, institution ends the use of "master" to describe leaders of residential colleges.
Source: The Washington Post
11-19-15
A Washington Post investigation reveals how Bill and Hillary Clinton have methodically cultivated donors over 40 years, from Little Rock to Washington and then across the globe. Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors.
Source: Grand Forks Herald
11-18-15
UND is choosing a new nickname after the NCAA banned its members from using Native American imagery in 2005, and its Fighting Sioux name was retired in late 2012.
Source: UPI
11-17-15
His plan, he said, would protect artifacts from "fanatics who are attacking the living and the dead, all who have humanity today and tomorrow, and those of yesterday."
Source: Vietnam Full Disclosure
11-18-15 (accessed)
Frontline and ProPublica are investigating the mysterious deaths of Vietnamese journalists in America by a group believed to have grievances stemming from the Vietnam War.
Source: NYT
11-16-15
From the early 2000s until 2009, when the majority owner was a Jewish family, pro-Palestinian activists held several demonstrations outside the hall to protest an annual benefit held there for the Israeli border police.
Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
10-25-15
The story is from John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Penn., who was an airfare airman present in the control room.
Source: The Washington Post
11-17-15
See this graph. It will make you think.
Source: New Historian
11-16-15
The findings have the potential to answer questions about the origins of the Yamnaya culture, herders from the Steppe who swept into Western Europe around 5,000 years ago.
Source: NYT
11-16-15
A fossil found in a Siberian cave yields evidence from a vanished, once-hardy branch of the human tree that lived at least 110,000 years ago.
Source: WaPo
11-16-15
The tradition goes back to World War Two.
Source: NYT
11-15-15
Lois Evans, a playwright and performance artist known as LuLu LoLo, has taken the role of Joan of Arc to advance a push to honor Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with a Central Park statue.
Source: Independent Journal
11-16-15
A rumor was spreading on Twitter that the lights on the Eiffel Tower had been shut off in honor of the victims of the attack. There was just one problem: The lights are always shut off every night at 1am.
Source: Trip Live
11-14-15
We aren't backing this story -- just letting you know what this professor is saying. He's been getting attention.
Source: USA Today
11-15-15
Hillary Clinton likes to tell voters what she’s not doing: running for President Obama’s third term. That’s to downplay what she is doing: asking voters to pick a Democrat to occupy the Oval Office for 12 consecutive years.
Source: ABC News
11-13-15
Terrorist attacks in France are not a 21st century phenomenon, with the country seeing royal assassination attempts and anarchist bombings among the bloody history of the last 200 years.
11-13-15
by Rick Shenkman
Donald Trump made the claim in the GOP debate. He's wrong.
