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: Newsweek
9-28-15
The stunningly swift reversal by Republican politicians didn’t happen by accident. It was the result of an organized effort by Tea Party-affiliated groups anxious to make a mark after a series of legislative losses.
Source: Pew Research Center
9-28-15
Views of Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Society Mixed
Source: The Times
9-25-15
Almost a third of the walls of the 13th-century Mamluk citadel, a Unesco world heritage site, had been badly damaged in the latest bombardment.
Source: NYT
9-25-15
He wants to educate people about the hard-fought history of consumer protections that are now taken for granted — and that he says are under assault.
Source: WaPo
9-25-15
With John Boehner's announcement Thursday that he will leave Congress at the end of October, he will become the sixth speaker in a row to effectively be forced to relinquish the gavel. But there's a difference this time.
Source: Newsweek
9-24-15
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dartmouth University launched the Early Warning Project in September 2015 to try to predict the risk of new mass killing episodes in countries around the world.
Source: Talking Points Memo
9-23-15
A Chicago television news station made a truly unfortunate art choice to accompany a segment on the Jewish High Holidays on Wednesday: the yellow Star of David that Jews were legally required to wear during the Holocaust.
Source: The Washington Post
9-25-15
“I started as a secretary, typing and filing for a nine-person real estate firm. It’s only in this country that you can go from being a secretary to chief executive of the largest tech company in the world, and run for president of the United States. It’s only possible here.”
Source: The Conversation
9-23-15
A new study, published in PLOS One, reports the discovery of a 9,000 year-old case of ritualised human decapitation that seems to be the oldest in the Americas by some margin.
Source: NPR
9-23-15
The meeting between Pope Francis and President Obama at the White House continues a tradition going back nearly a century between U.S. presidents and the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Source: Bloomberg
9-24-15
A national survey finds that 72 percent of Americans say their country isn't as great as it once was —a central theme of front-runner Donald Trump's campaign.
Source: NYT
9-24-15
The Chinese president’s first immersion in politics came on the streets of Beijing when Mao Zedong exhorted students “to bombard the headquarters” of order.
Source: illinoistimes.com
9-18-15
The state of Illinois hasn't passed a budget. That means the Lincoln project can't sign a contract for federal funds.
Source: CNN
9-23-15
Pope Francis on Wednesday canonized Junipero Serra, a Spanish missionary, a moment of deep pride for Latinos but a source of controversy for many Native Americans.
Source: BBC
9-22-15
The former SS member is accused of serving as a radio operator for the camp commandant.
Source: The Washington Post
9-17-15
The hull of the first submarine in history to sink an enemy warship has been cleaned and revealed for the first time in 150 years.
Source: NYT
9-20-15
After officials discovered the NSA had collected metadata on strictly domestic calls, Bush gave the agency retroactive authority to do so.
Source: The New Yorker
9-18-15
Exxon didn’t just “know” about climate change: it conducted some of the original research.
Source: NYT
9-19-15
The incredible story unearthed by the Times of a 107 year old African American woman who returns for the first time since 1915 to the little Mississippi town her family fled after a lynching.
Source: CBS News
9-19-15
It was President Kennedy, angered by bad intelligence on the disastrous attempted invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, who first asked for a daily rundown of the latest top secret intelligence.
