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: The Washington Examiner
                                        December 28, 2016
            
            
            
            Brinkley met with Trump at the Mar-a-Lago.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal 
                                        December 27, 2016
            
            
            
            Other American administrations regularly have abstained or supported U.N. resolutions critical of Israeli policy.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Guardian
                                        December 25, 2016
            
            
            
            It has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia. 
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Washington Post
                                        December 28, 2016
            
            
            
            The title of the course — “The Problem of Whiteness” — and its description has the University of Wisconsin at Madison mired in controversy before students have cracked open a book or peeked at a syllabus.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Brookings Institution 
                                        December 16, 2016
            
            
            
            "Never in American history has a president-elect presented more conflict of interest questions and foreign entanglements than Donald Trump."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Time Magazine
                                        December 27, 2016
            
            
            
            The school has now pledged to strengthen Holocaust awareness by screening films like Schindler’s List.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Grio
                                        December 26, 2016
            
            
            
            The bill is an expansion of a previous bill of the same name that was passed by the House of Representatives in 2007.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYT
                                        December 26, 2016
            
            
            
            It now appears that the Japanese prime minister is the fourth to visit, and that one of the previous three includes Nobusuke Kishi, his grandfather.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Wire
                                        December 24, 2016
            
            
            
            India drops a section of a textbook that described how female members of the lower caste were forced to pay a tax if they chose in the early 1800s to cover their breasts.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: CBS News
                                        December 24, 2016
            
            
            
            In states including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico, legislators have said they plan to introduce legislation that would require their state’s Electoral College voters cast ballots for the presidential candidate who earns the most votes nationwide, regardless of the statewide results.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: NYT
                                        December 23, 2016
            
            
            
            The highest-ranking Canadian soldier killed in action during World War II was shot in a largely forgotten fight that left nearly 3,000 soldiers dead, 290 of then Canadian.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Chicago Tribune
                                        December 23, 2016
            
            
            
            Though the Obama library fundraising effort will span the nation and possibly the globe, it's likely to hold special appeal to Chicago's philanthropists, said a local fundraising specialist.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Seeker
                                        December 22, 2016
            
            
            
            Italian researchers have discovered what might be the oldest nativity scene ever found — 5,000-year-old rock art that depicts a star in the east, a newborn between parents and two animals.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Fox News
                                        December 21, 2016
            
            
            
            The Seton Hall Law Center uncovered an internal FBI memo dating July 17, 1950 that determined there was “insufficient evidence” to arrest her.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Guardian
                                        December 20, 2016
            
            
            
            The trust will publish a new guidebook next year telling the LGBTQ history of some of its properties, and put on a range of events under the headline Prejudice and Pride.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Atlanta Black Star 
                                        December 21, 2016
            
            
            
            “In the end, slavery was actually a positive thing for the world because people learned to fight for who they are.”  –  Student
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: The Los Angeles Times
                                        December 21, 2016
            
            
            
            One professor's database cites 81 attempts by the United States to influence elections in other countries, notably in Iran, Guatemala and Chile.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: National Security Archive
                                        December 22, 2016
            
            
            
            The President was told a nuclear exchange could cost the lives of  80 million Americans.
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Atlantic
                                        December 21, 2016
            
            
            
            In an interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who backs reparations, Obama said "it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation’s resources over a long period of time to make that right."
         
     
    
                
        
        
                            Source: Newsweek
                                        December 21, 2016
            
            
            
            The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act erodes some of the legal technicalities that art museums have used to hold on to Nazi-looted art when faced with claims.