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
January 11, 2017
New research shows they shared many behaviors that we long believed to be uniquely human. Why did science get them so wrong?
Source: WSJ
January 10, 2017
Shandong Jianzhu University fired Deng Xiangchao for his ‘erroneous remarks’ on Weibo
Source: NYT
January 11, 2017
The “Eight-Year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression” will now be the “14-Year War,” with the starting date moved back to 1931, the government said.
Source: Politico
January 6, 2017
Documents indicate Kissinger told the Pinochet government not to cooperate with the US investigation of the assassination of Chile’s former ambassador to the US in Washington DC.
Source: NYT
January 9, 2017
Before Sotheby’s sells a long-held family trove of Alexander Hamilton’s documents, the public is invited to take a look.
Source: Slate
January 10, 2017
In the last half century only one cabinet nomination has been rejected, but others have been withdrawn.
Source: Iraqi News
January 9, 2017
"The majority of these places belong to Christianity, Yazdanism and Yarsanism (Kaka’i)."
Source: Johnson City Press
January 7, 2017
He wouldn’t be admitted today, but government officials say there’s nothing they can do about it.
Source: NYT
January 9, 2017
He prosecuted civil-rights activists in 1985, but his case fell apart.
Source: The Washington Post
January 8, 2017
The communications director for the office of the president, Eugene Arhin, took to Facebook to apologize for the "oversight.”
Source: The Telegraph
January 6, 2017
Representatives of the Herero and Nama peoples have filed a class action lawsuit to demand reparations for the systematic massacre of some 100,000 of their forebears between 1904 and 1908.
Source: NPR
January 9, 2017
The "Pioneer Cabin Tree," a sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, saw horses and cars pass through it over the years. More recently, only hikers were allowed to walk through the massive tree.
Source: Forbes
January 6, 2017
The average age of all 44 U.S. presidents who have taken office is just over 55 while Trump is 70.
Source: NYT
January 5, 2017
Caked in dust and dating back to 1674, the written records of a growing city are headed to new homes, to be preserved and made accessible to researchers.
Source: BBC
January 6, 2017
Japan has temporarily withdrawn its ambassador to South Korea, amid an escalating row over a statue representing wartime sex slaves.
Source: USA Today
January 3, 2017
Instead of building on his legacy, he'll be defending it.
Source: The National
January 4, 2017
A Glasgow University academic has claimed that military personnel are involved in the looting of historic sites in Syria and Iraq.
Source: NYT
January 1, 2017
It is perhaps the most significant artifact documenting the arrival of Jews in the New World: a small, tattered 16th-century manuscript written in an almost microscopic hand by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, the man whose life and pain it chronicled.
Source: NPR
January 4, 2017
Louisiana is losing its coast faster than any other place in the world.
Source: NPR
January 4, 2017
Mafia III, an action-adventure video game, is a provocative and in some ways cathartic alternate reality that directly confronts gamers of all walks of life with the reimagined raw trials of a protagonist rarely featured by the industry.
