Breaking News

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.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  12-5-13
  

  Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

  The former South African president had been hospitalized since June.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  12-3-13
  

  George H.W. Bush Given Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation Award

  Johnson's two daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb, attended the presentation of the award.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-5-13
  

  Bruce Springsteen's 'Born To Run' manuscript could fetch $100,000 at NY auction

  The document used to be in the collection of Springsteen's former manager, Mike Appel.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  12-4-13
  

  Hospital Donates Records of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to JFK Library

  Medical file and discharge summary discovered in 2009.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  12-4-13
  

  Australia’s Eureka Flag Finds a New Patch

  The Eureka flag was raised against colonial rule in 1854 and has been a symbol of Australian democracy ever since.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  12-4-13
  

  Smithsonian gets $1M to save endangered languages

  The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has received a $1 million grant to launch a long-term initiative to digitize and preserve recordings of endangered languages.

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  12-4-13
  

  Two world-class libraries launch online archive of ancient Scriptures

  The Vatican Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library are teaming up.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12-4-13
  

  U.S. veteran held by North Korea helped anti-communist guerrilla force in 1950-1953 war

  An 85-year-old U.S. veteran being held in North Korea spent his war years there in one of the Army’s first Special Forces units.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-5-13
  

  Paul Aussaresses, 95, Who Tortured Algerians, Dies

  Aussaresses admitted that he coldbloodedly tortured and summarily executed dozens of prisoners during the Algerian War.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-5-13
  

  Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins

  The new discovery is the oldest known fossil of the hominid Denisovan.

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• SOURCE: Military.com
  12-4-13
  

  Heffron, of WWII's Band of Brothers, Dies at 90

  Heffron was a paratrooper in Company E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

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• SOURCE: New Orleans Times-Picayune
  12-4-13
  

  Fully 70 percent of films from silent era are lost, according to Library of Congress report

  The report also advocates developing preservation programs.

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  12-4-13
  

  "Secret" Labyrinth of Tunnels under Rome Mapped

  To predict and prevent the collapse of streets in Rome, geoscientists mapped high-risk areas of the quarry system.

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• SOURCE: National Public Radio
  12-2-13
  

  Florida Tribe Re-Creates Daring Escape From The Trail Of Tears

  A Seminole named Polly Parker organized and led an escape from federal troops more than 150 years ago.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  12-2-13
  

  Evolution, Civil War history entwine in plant fossil with a tragic past

  A fossil leaf fragment of Potomacapnos apeleutheron was originally discovered by freedmen in 1864.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12-1-13
  

  Rosa Parks’s official arrest report

  She refused to give bus seat to white man 58 years ago December 1.

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  11-24-13
  

  Robert F. Kennedy saw conspiracy in JFK’s assassination

  RFK responded to his brother's assassination with crippling grief and growing suspicions.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  12-2-13
  

  Ancient 'candi' crushed by Malaysian developer

  Destruction of 1,200-year-old temple outrages Malaysians online.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  12-2-13
  

  'Chicago Time Machine' looks at layers of history

  Geoffrey Baer's 'Chicago Time Machine' takes deep-dish look at the past.

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• SOURCE: PennLive
  11-29-13
  

  Disputed sale of Civil War Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's coat and cup

  A military antiques shop in Gettysburg claims they are owed a share of a $1.6 million to $1.85 million sale of a coat and cup once owned by Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.