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- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): first edition record
Document · 1949
Brown University Library
Brown University Library record of the first edition of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, London, June 1949).
- Nixon: Address on New Economic Policy, Gold Suspension (1971)
Government Record · 1971
President Richard M. Nixon
President Nixon, August 15, 1971: announced he had directed the Treasury to temporarily suspend converting dollars into gold or other reserve assets.
- NPR: Facebook and Twitter Limit the New York Post Story (2020)
News Report · 2020
Shannon Bond, NPR
NPR, October 14, 2020: Facebook cut the New York Post story's reach while awaiting fact checks, and Twitter blocked links and images under its hacked-materials and…
- NPR: Judge Rules Meta Did Not Illegally Maintain a Monopoly (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
NPR (Allyn, B.)
NPR, November 2025: after a trial, Judge James Boasberg ruled the FTC had not proven Meta holds a monopoly in social media, years after the FTC…
- NPR: Putin Grants Snowden Russian Citizenship (2022)
News Report · 2022
National Public Radio
NPR, September 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Edward Snowden Russian citizenship by decree. The decree itself was not opened, so this is a news report…
- NPR: Sinclair Local Anchors Recite Script in Unison (2018)
News Report · 2018
National Public Radio
NPR, April 2018: Sinclair required local news anchors to record the same promotional script warning about one-sided and false news, and a video showed them reciting…
- NPR: UN Official Calls Manning Treatment Cruel and Inhuman (2012)
News Report · 2012
National Public Radio
NPR, March 2012: reports that UN official Juan Mendez told the Guardian that Manning's 11 months in solitary confinement was at minimum cruel, inhuman and degrading…
- NPR: YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban Infowars (2018)
News Report · 2018
NPR
NPR, August 2018: reports YouTube, Apple and Facebook banned Infowars, quoting YouTube's rule that repeated violations of hate speech and harassment policies end accounts, plus Apple…
- NSA History: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds and the Flying Fish (2001)
Government Record · 2001
Robert J. Hanyok, National Security Agency; Naval History and Heritage Command reproduction
NSA historian Robert Hanyok, 2001: concluded that no attack happened on the night of August 4, 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. He also found the…
- NSBA: Letter to President Biden on Threats to School Officials (2021)
Document · 2021
National School Boards Association
National School Boards Association, September 2021: a letter to President Biden asking for federal help and investigations, saying some threats against school officials could equal domestic…
- NYU Clive Davis Institute Taylor Swift Course (2022)
News Report · 2022
Variety
Variety, January 2022: NYU's Clive Davis Institute launched a Taylor Swift course taught by Rolling Stone writer Brittany Spanos.
- Obama White House: Turnaround Arts Partnership with the Kennedy Center (2016)
Government Record · 2016
Obama White House / President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Obama White House, 2016: Turnaround Arts, an arts-in-schools program started in 2011, was created by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and moved…
- OCHA: Gaza Humanitarian Situation Report (October 2026)
Document · 2026
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN OCHA, October 2026: records 32 killed in Gaza from October 13 to 19, 2026, and 1,522 deaths and 5,421 injuries since the ceasefire, including 67…
- OCHA: Gaza Reported Impact Snapshot (October 2026)
Document · 2026
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN OCHA, October 2026: reports 74,392 Palestinian deaths and 175,440 injuries in Gaza as of October 7, 2026. Of 74,237 identified dead, 21,976 were children and…
- ODNI: Declassified Assessment on COVID-19 Origins (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, August 2021: intelligence agencies were split. Four agencies and the NIC leaned natural origin with low confidence, one leaned…
- ODNI: Wuhan Institute of Virology and COVID-19 Origins (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, June 2023: the Energy Department and FBI judge a lab-related incident most likely, for different reasons, while all agencies…
- OpenSecrets: Dark Money Topped $1 Billion in 2020 (2021)
Document · 2021
OpenSecrets (Center for Responsive Politics)
OpenSecrets, March 2021: more than $1 billion in 'dark money' from groups that hide their donors was spent in the 2020 federal elections, a record. About…
- Operation Tinseltown: How the CIA Manipulates Hollywood
News Report · 2016
Nicholas Schou; The Atlantic
The Atlantic, 2016: in 1996 the CIA assigned veteran officer Chase Brandon to work directly with Hollywood studios to improve the agency's image.
- Oversight Board: Assessing Meta’s Plans to Expand Community Notes (2026)
Document · 2026
Meta Oversight Board
Meta Oversight Board, March 2026: weighs the benefits and risks of Community Notes but says it has not evaluated how well they work in the U.S.…
- Oversight Board: Decision on Trump Suspension (2021)
Document · 2021
Facebook Oversight Board
Facebook Oversight Board, May 2021: upheld Facebook's January 7 suspension of Trump but said an indefinite, standardless suspension was not appropriate and required a defined penalty…
- Oversight Board: Response to Meta Reinstating Trump (2023)
Document · 2023
Facebook Oversight Board
Facebook Oversight Board, January 2023: said the decision to reinstate Trump on Meta's platforms was Meta's alone and the Board had no role in it.
- Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan (1935)
Court Filing · 1935
Supreme Court of the United States (Hughes, C.J.)
U.S. Supreme Court, January 1935: struck down the 'hot oil' section of the National Industrial Recovery Act because Congress gave the President lawmaking power with no…
- Pandemic thriller Songbird becomes first film to start shooting during Los Angeles lockdown
News Report · 2020
Screen Daily
Screen Daily, July 2020: Songbird began filming in Los Angeles on July 8, 2020, the first shoot in the city since the lockdown.
- Paramount Skydance 2025 Form 10-K (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Paramount Skydance Corporation
Paramount Skydance annual report for 2025, filed February 2026: lists Paramount Pictures, CBS, CBS News, Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Showtime, Paramount+ and Pluto TV. The company's own…