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: NYT
  7-27-14
  

  Bob Dallek in the NYT gives a rave review of John Dean's history of Watergate cover-up

  by Robert Dallek

  A review of Dean's new book, "The Nixon Defense."

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  7-31-14
  

  Ex-President George W. Bush Authors Book About His Father

  The younger Bush, 68, also writes about his father’s influence on his own life, including his decision to enter politics.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-3014
  

  Tears, and Anger, as Militants Destroy Iraq City’s Relics

  “We couldn’t believe that the history of Mosul has disappeared. I wanted to die.”

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• SOURCE: UPI
  7-30-14
  

  Europe notes 100th anniversary of World War I

  A total of 76 current nations played a role in the 1914-1918 war.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  7-29-14
  

  Theodore Van Kirk, 93, Enola Gay Navigator, Dies

  Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk took the plane’s bearings, using a hand-held sextant to guide with the stars.

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• SOURCE: The Sydney Morning Herald
  7=29-14
  

  The beautiful, historic shrines that Islamists try to destroy

  The militants espouse a radical, puritanical strain of Sunni Islam whereby all shrines or holy sites that honour beings lesser than their God are considered apostate.

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• SOURCE: Spiegal
  7-24-14
  

  East Germany's Blood Art: No Justice for Victims of Regime's Treasure Hunt

  "They didn't even leave me a chair to sit on."

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• SOURCE: Library of Congress
  7-29-14
  

  President Warren Harding’s Love Letters Open to the Public

  Taken as a whole, the correspondence sheds light on a man in love on the eve of his presidency and a country on the brink of World War I.

• 
• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  7-25-14
  

  Earth Is In The Early Days Of A New Mass-Extinction Event, Researchers Warn

  And humans are solely to blame

• 
• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-28-14
  

  Without World War I, what would literature look like today?

  Our book shelves would look very different.

• 
• SOURCE: The Wilson Quarterly
  7-29-14 (accessed)
  

  The Secret to Early Jewish Success: Literacy

  When Roman soldiers destroyed Jerusalem’s Second Temple in AD 70, they unknowingly planted the seeds of centuries of Jewish flourishing.

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• SOURCE: Al-Ahram
  7-24-14
  

  Egypt’s Nasser is blamed for current problems by the regime

  It has been customary for Egypt’s political right under business barons to try to demonize the Nasser revolution.

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• SOURCE: Russia Today
  7-25-14
  

  ‘Google must not be left to censor history’ – Wikipedia founder

  The power to “censor history” should not be left in Google’s hands.

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• SOURCE: BBC
  7-25-14
  

  The most important battle you've probably never heard of

  Exactly 800 years ago on Sunday, in a field next to what is now the airport of Lille, a battle was fought which determined the history of England.

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• SOURCE: IraqiCrisis
  7-27-14
  

  ISIS is destroying both Shia and Sunni shrines and buildings in Mosul

  by Lamia Al Gailani Werr

  "After the fundamentalists destroyed all the Shia mosques in Mosul and the other towns, they have now turned to the Sunni shrines."

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• SOURCE: PLoS ONE
  3-5-14
  

  Study: Violent radicalism in UK isn't associated with poverty

  by Bhui K, Warfa N, Jones E

  Youth, wealth, and being in education rather than employment were risk factors.

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• SOURCE: Conflict Antiquities
  7-25-14 (accessed)
  

  CONFIRMED: the Shrine of Jonah/Mosque of Yunus (Nineveh, Mosul, Iraq) has been destroyed

  The many photographs all correspond with each other. This has happened.

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• SOURCE: Xinhuanet
  7-7-14
  

  Chinese President Xi Jinping: Nobody can change history

  "Anyone who intends to deny, distort or beautify history will not find agreement among Chinese people and people of all other countries."

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  7-24-14
  

  Iraq’s Long-Lost Mythical Temple Has Been Found…and Is In Danger of Disappearing Again

  For centuries, scientists have been searching for an ancient temple dedicated to a winged warrior. Now, one archaeologist thinks he may have found it. Only problem: It’s in the middle of a war zone.

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• SOURCE: CBS
  7-23-14
  

  CBS features in-depth coverage of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights law

  CBS News looks back at the fight against segregation, and the continuing struggle for equal rights.