China puts new weapons on South Sea islands-late 3

Beijing, China is adding new antiaircraft weapons to a string of islands in the middle of the South China Sea. In recent year, Beijing has turned coral reefs into small, outpost by piling sand and then building different insulation like barracks, lighthouses, and military-grade airstrips. China claims power over the full South China Sea even though Philippines and Vietnam border the sea. During an recent interview, Donald rump accused Beijing of building a "massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea." Beijing still maintains that these 7 island are not military purpose but serve civilian. The United States has been very critical of the different building on the islands, China sees the presence of U.S. ships as interference and has repeatedly said "that it is the United States, not China, that wants to militarize the China Sea." The report by the U.S. groups that found the weapons claim that Beijing "is serious about defense of its artificial islands in case of an armed contingency in the South China Sea." Tensions between Washington and Beijing are still long-standing.

House conservative wants Trump to undo certain regulations-late 3

Republican, Mark Meadows, the incoming chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, has used a meeting with Donald Trump to discuss a list of 232 regulations that the incoming president could repeal. Climate, energy, nutrition, net neutrality, consumers, smokers, international developments and etc, are all examples of certain regulations that the The Freedom Caucus has suggested. The Caucus suggest that Trump opens up oil exploration on federally owned land, kill the State Departments office on climate change and any office assigned to study it (climate). The caucus advised Trump to undo Obama-era guidelines for school lunches and supplements (nutrition). The caucus also recommend undoing the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 regulation, because it did "too much in a stroke."Another recommendation would be to end funding for smoke-free public housing and removing tobacco products from the Food and Drug Administrations purview. The list goes on, with an explanation of every regulation.

Salvation Army red kettles-late 2

Its getting to that special date that tons of people celebrate, Christmas. And this Christmas one generous donor has been secretly dropping wads of $100 bills adding up to $1,000 inside all the Salvation Army Kettles around the Twin Cities area. This donor has given about $100,000 since 2011. The mystery donor is nicknamed "St. Grand"and the method is always the same every year, bundles of money dropped in a kettle. His donations are improving this world, no one is really sure exactly who he is but when he shows himself he will be thanked by everyone.

Drama with the Trump sign-late 2

A school in Missouri, Warrensburg, held up a trump sign during the opposites team player introductions. The opposing team was from Center High School, where all of the players are black or biracial according to the Kansas City Star. The video posted online has more than 6,800 shares and it is shown that the white students all turn their back at the black students. Supposedly the school has a tradition of the student section turning around but in this situation the other team took it differently. Holding up the Trump sign was what took the tradition to a new level. The Warrensburg Missouri school issued the statement on Facebook after the video was shared, "Members of our student body acted inappropriately and were insensitive toward our opponents. The Warrensburg R-VI School District does not condone these actions and apologizes to anyone who was offended by the actions of these students. We will do everything we can to keep incidents like this from happening again."

Alaska's Arctic refuge to oil drilling-late 2

Oil companies may be on the verge of tapping into Alaskan refuge's huge reserves, under Donald Trump. Trump's nomination of General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has uplifted the hopes of many energy industry insiders and Alaskan lawmakers who have seen attempts to drill into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but never succeeded. Unfortunately their are two sides to this situation. Alaska's Republican lawmakers see the estimated 7.7 billion barrels of oil and know that they will receive money, but the Environmental Groups and the Indigenous Gwich'in people consider their planes sacred land and oil drilling would ruin the habitat around; gray wolves, polar bears, porcupine caribou, and more than 200 species of birds. The refuge was created in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter, he put more than 100 million federal acres in Alaska under conservation protection. The oil drilling issue has stood for the past 36 years figuring out what is the right thing to do.

NASA's tiny satellites-late 2

NASA recently shot off an plane that carried a rocket up into the sky. The plane releases the rocket and shoots up into space releasing 8 mini satellites into orbit, that would hopefully improve hurricane forecasts. The rocket was about 40,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Canaveral before it released the rocket. This is the first time ever for this scenario to happen. The satellites will measure the near-surface ocean winds in hurricanes, typhoons, and other tropical cyclones around Earth. It is called the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS). Scientist are really trying to look for the winds underneath the storm's clouds because they can not see that exact path. Hopefully the satellites will read and work the way the scientist want it to.

Chairman Tom Wheeler resigns-late 2

Tom Wheeler, a Democratic chairman of the Federal Communications Commissions since 2013, is resigning at the age of 70. It is customary for the FCC chairman to resign at the start of a new administration, but Wheeler refused for months to publicly step down. Wheeler was a huge lobbyist for the wireless and cable industries which led him into the commission. Not many public interest groups liked that he was nominated because they disliked his business ties. Critics explain that Wheeler's habits of pushing through major items with party-line votes makes his legacy vulnerable to being reversed by republican. His departure causes the FCC to start the Trump administration with a 2-1 Republican majority, it now allows the GOP to immediately begin dismantling Obama regulations. Wheeler's goodbye speech "Serving as FCC Chairman during this period of historic technological change has been the greatest honor of my professional life...It has been a privilege to work with my fellow commissioners to help protect consumers, strengthen public safety and cybersecurity, and ensure fast, fair and open networks for all Americans.”

Texas Abortions-late

The state of Texas now requires women who have abortions have to bury or cremate their unborn babies. Not sure how i feel about this. The governor says that he is "giving voice the unborn" while others are saying that he is trying to shame and financially burden multiple women. As Texas has tried to fight to ban abortion but got turned down every time, they ended up thinking of something else. Pro-choice advocates believe that the timing of the governors letter was very odd because Stephen Breyer wrote in the Whole Women's Health how the Texas law "has no significant health-related problems." Many women who end up getting abortions do not have enough money to pay for a burial at the same time. The cost of an abortion is $300-$950, the cost of a burial on average $2,000, and the cost of cremation $1,500-4,000, I'm not sure how many women will pay for this.

Texas Abortion fight

NYPD arrests Muslim Girl-late

In New York City college student, Yasmin Seweid, claimed to be the victim of a hate crime by Trump supporters due to her religion. She says that three men attempted to pull of her hijab while calling her a terrorist and yelling out Trumps name. But surprisingly no one around her on the train tried to stop it, she admitted that she had made the whole thing up and blamed it on a family issue. She has been arrested for filing a false report.

Gatlinburg Fire-late

The fire started on November 23 in Chimney Tops area of the national park close to the Tennessee-North Carolina border, after a week on November 28 the fire had spread all the way to Gatlinburg, going up into flames. The fire department told everyone to evacuate. 14 people have been found dead, 175 injured, and over 2,400 buildings were burned to the ground, but many people believe that it was man-made. Currently Mayor Larry Waters estimates the damages to be more than $500 million and the federal government says that nearly 20,000 acres of land have been scorched. Two Tennessee children are sitting in Juvy waiting for the answer if they are guilty or not-guilty and if they are guilty they can get up to 60 years in prison. If more serious charges ended up being dropped they could go for first-degree murder. But right the officials keep saying that "its complicated."

Obama did not sign the Iran Sanctions-late

President Barack Obama declined to renew his signature on the Iran Sanction Act. Obama wanted an apparent bid to alleviate Tehran's concern that the U.S. is backing out of the nuclear deal. The White House says that Obama was expected to sign the 10-year renewal but he never did, and yet it still became a law. The White House has also argued "that the renewal is unnecessary because the administration retains other authorities to punish Iran, if necessary, and has expressed concern that the renewal may undermine the nuclear deal." Unfortunately Iran's government has complained to the United Nations about the renewal and their president has even ordered up plans to build nuclear-powered ships and to formally accuse the United States on violating the terms of the deal, they made. US law makers argued that renewing the law that was first passed in 1996 was critical to painting pressure on Iran to abide by the deal, the bill passed the Senate.

Trump and the Tech Giants-late

After Trump publicly slammed leaders of the Tech Giants as in leaders of amazon, apple, and Facebook, he ended up inviting them to the Trump Tower to apologize. During his election Trump claimed that Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, was using his ownership of The Washington Post as a tax-dodging scam and argued with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, about immigration reform. When they met it ended up to be very civil unlike how many people believed in would be. The group even discussed how to improve the governments technology, and Trump agreed to that and to having additional meetings with the tech industries.

What are the formal and informal power of the senate? How do you know?

We know because it is in Article 1 of the Constitution

Formal Powers:

• Impeachment-holding trials
• Confirmation of Nominations
• Approve Treaties made by the Executive branch by 2/3 vote
• Expulsion someone else in the Senate
• Censure
• Investigations
• Contested Senate Elections

Informal Powers:

• Filibuster and Cloture
• Power of Persuasion
• Executive Agreements
• Issue Executive Orders
• Issue Signing Statements
• Bureaucracy
• Legislative Proposal

The senate has more things going on that is not in the Constitution

Families Reunite after U.S. Border Opens Up-6

On the shores of the Rio Grande Canal which is across from the Mexican border, over 300 families were reunited, even if it was only for 3 minutes! They opened the gates and let family members rejoin! The U.S. border patrol and Mexico's Federal Police were watching very closely making sure their were no escapes. The human rights advocacy group, "Hugs Not Walls" helped thousands of families reunite this past month. Starting at 9 a.m. groups of 20 people, 10 from each side would embrace family members that some had not seen in years or even decades! Cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez were planned to meet again! To make sure no one got lost citizens for the US wore blue t-shirts while Mexican wore white. Fernando García of the U.S.-based Border Network for Human Rights says "“This is an act of love, there’s hugs, smiles and happiness but still, it is also an act of protest. We need to raise awareness of the crisis of deported families.” I feel like this event would change many peoples lives if they did it more often, to help keep families that have been separated close to each other!

The election-5

Sorry about this one being behind, because it is very important. On November 8, 2016 the United State had a very competitive race between the 2 candidate Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it was a very close and long race. Their were so many people voting that Trump would not be elected till the next day because of how long it takes to count up the votes. Donald Trump won the electoral votes 306 to 232 Hillary, while Hillary was winning the popular votes at the beginning but soon lost by only a few hundred thousand. 62,972,226 for Trump winning the popular vote and slowly behind is Hillary with 62,277,250. Donald Trump is going to be our new president for the next 4 years, so hopefully our country won't fall of its course and fingers crossed that trump won't diminish Woman's rights,  LGBTQ, Medicare for disabilities, and etc.

Trumps way on immigrations-5

After a recent interview with Donald Trump, he discusses his plan for immigration. Trump says that he plans to immediately deport 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants who have "criminal records" after his inauguration. For a man who is still not in the president seat he already knows what he wants. In a "60 minutes" Interview Trump says that "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers....we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate" In the interview he discusses a ton about how important it is to secure the border, and that that should be one of the first steps. It can be seen that Trump is also taking steps towards Obama's views, Obama had removed over 2.4 million during his 8 years of presidency, which many had been convicted of a crime.  Trump is also listening to what the people have to say, he will be accepting fence along some parts of the border as many republicans in congress have proposed.

Trump Riots-5

Recently we had our new president elected, Donald Trump, but not many people are too pleased. Thousands of people have been marching in protest on the streets in major cities, and its getting bigger. Every night since the election, cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Kansas City, Portland, NYC, and Milwaukee have brought out their signs and foul language to show their opinions. Many protestors have surrounded Trump Tower in New York City, where Trump lives and works. Trump recently tweeted "love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud" giving off the vibe that he truly cares about this country. The protesting has gotten so bad that people have started getting arrested for vandalism, breaking car windows, setting fires, and etc. Walking down the streets you would hear many chants of the hate towards Trump. "Sexist, racist, anti-gay" it has gotten so bad that at one point someone lit the American flag on fire.

Arizona District 1 election

The outcome of the election between Tom O'halleran and Paul Babeu was very close. Tom took the lead with 111,729 votes and paul coming in second with 94,187. Tom did win this election as expected to many, paul just seemed very sketchy about information that had come out about him. Hopefully tom will start to support the LGBTQ and pro-abortion to help out his state.

Missouri Senate Race 2016

Missouri's Senate race is known as a battle ground because as a state known as republican is being persuaded into changing to democratic. Missouri has a population of 6,083,672 and has a household income of 46,867. Missouri is known for their manufacturing, agriculture, mining, and food industry. The election is mainly between Roy Blunt, who is part of the republican party and Jason Kander who is part of the democratic party. Blunt has tried to relate Kander to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama saying that "both are unpopular in the state" while Kander has labeled Blunt as a "consummate Washington insider". 

Roy Blunt attended Southwest Baptist University(1970) and Missouri State University (1972). Blunt is a father of four and grandfather of six. Blunt was a county official in Missouri then was elected to be in the Secretary of State of missouri (1984) then he served in US House of Representative from 1996-2008 now he is trying to get re-elected into the senate as he was in 2010. Blunt believes that everyone deserves access to health care they can afford, pro-growth economic, energy, and regulatory policies that would help create more full time jobs and he supports and all-of-the-above energy policy. He is a support of Donald Trump.

Jason Kander attended American University and earned his J.D. in law at Georgetown University. Kander worked as an attorney and is a second lieutenant/instructor in the US army, as well as being a military intelligence officer in Afghanistan 2006-2007. Before running for the Senate, Kander served 2 terms in the Missouri House of Rep, representing District 44 and then was elected for the 2012 election for the Missouri Secretary of State and is now competing against Blunt for the Missouri Senate! Jason believes that women should get equal pay for equal work, affordable child care, and earned paid sick leave, he is fighting for middle class and protection from financial fraud, pushing for open and honest government, and wants to reduce business fees and eliminate unnecessary paperwork. Jason is a huge supporter of guns but does believe in getting background checks so terrorist will not be able to harm a person. He is a supporter of Hillary Clinton.

After watching Jason Kanders AD on gun support and how he blindfoldly put together a gun while kinda threatening Roy Blunt  into doing the same thing kinda showed how serious this election was and how far these candidates would go. Blunt did respond using Kanders ad back at him to describe how he "received a F for his failure to defend the 2nd amendment....and supports amnesty for illegal immigrants." 

So far more than $43 million dollars has been contributed to this election making this one of the most expensive in the nation. A huge donor is The Senate Leadership Fund which has given over $8 million on ads to attack Kander trying to hold Blunt into the senate seat. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employess have spent $1.8 million on mostly ads attacking Blunt, Ends Citizens United spent $1.78 million on Kanders behalf, The National Rifle Association's spent $1.6 million on Kanders ads claiming that they were weak for the second amendment.

Right now this race has been very close with the Republican Party Leading with 72.6% voters, and the Democratic Party with 69.9% voters. It is getting recognition in many other states not just Missouri! The election will take place on November 8, 2016, its coming up!

Media Articles together:

Missouri Senate debates and race coverage: 

• ProChoiceAmerica.org , "NARAL Endorses Jason Kander," July 26, 2016
• Kansas City Star, "Blunt's Vietnam-era draft deferments", by Dave Helling, February 10, 2016 
• The Atlantic magazine, "Q & A with Jason Kander," by Alex Roarty, Dec. 27, 2015 
• NRSC press release, "Does Jason Kander Support Sanctuary Cities?", 2015-10-20
• PolitiFact AdWatch fact-checking, "NRSC's 'Pandering Panda' attack", by Rachel Brooks, October 2nd, 2015
• The Ripon Advance, "Blunt talks health care reform", Sep. 21, 2015
• Columbia Missourian, "Blunt: America is threatened, but Patriot Act might not always be the answer", by Blake Nelson, Sept. 14, 2015
• Springfield News-Leader, "Gay Marriage Ruling," by Thomas Gounley, June 26, 2015
• PoliticMo.com, "Kander jabs Obama & Blunt for support of fast-track trade bill", by Eli Yokley, May 27, 2015
• KRCU Cape Girardeau, "Gay Marriage Ruling," by Thomas Gounley, April 19, 2013

The debate-4

After the debate monday night, hillary clinton felt like she had won and almost defeated trump. Even trump claimed that the night could've gone better. Trumps answer to tax returns sounded as if he has never done taxes in his life, he even talked about his business more than the solution to jobs. Every time Trump spoke out he would try to point out what Hillary was doing wrong never what he should be doing thats right. Hillary was able to keep calm and stay friendly towards the voters. Even though there were times when you could tell she got a little bit frustrated. There is still time to hear the rest of the debates so I'm not sure if this is a job well done to Hillary yet or a good luck.

Iowa-4

Iowa resident near the Cedar River have been experiencing many floods. the Cedar River was expected to rise up to its highest levels since 2008. Only about 50% of low-lying residents have voluntarily evacuated except many others are still refusing. The national weather service has predicted that the river will crest Tuesday morning. Th city prepared for the worst to happen which involves safety boats on either side of the river. The river ended up crest at 3 AM Monday morning, at just under 22 feet, 3 feet less than 2008's flood.

The 12 year old boy-4

A 12 year old boy was able to stand up to his school and give his answer on being transgender, after many girls started to complain how transgenders shouldn't be able to change in the same bathrooms. Ari Bowman a transgender boy from Pennsylvania received a standing ovation after stating his opinion on the situation about. He explained that he was a normal boy that loved to play soccer, hangout with friends, and play video games. Ari gave the point that he's been changing in the boys locker room for a while and has never seen a genitalia yet even those he has female genitalia and has tried to change in the girls locker room they scream. "they didn't care that I've had female genitalia, they cared that i looked masculine and was male at heart, They didn't care about my body parts. What made them uncomfortable was my looks". Ari was able to stand up to his community and to his school agreeing with what target has tried to do recently with the bathrooms and what the government is trying to do about transgenders. he concludes his speech with the words "it makes me me, and no one can change that".

The Beaumont Boys-4

a group of 11-12 year olds in Beaumont, Texas knelt down on one knee during the star spangled during their own football game, even the couch joined in. The protest went viral, which the team did not expect, but yet they still protested. the team was threatened multiple times involving other teams playing against them, the Beaumont Bulls board canceling the season, and even people threatening the children and coaches lives. One of the boys Jaleun Parkerson said that "since Colin Kaepernick took a stand, we wanted to do the same, we wanted to stand against racism and injustice". The head coach Rah-Rah Barber even explained to the parents what was happening and they agreed with the decision and gave full approval. from then on the kids kept making the decision to kneel and stand for what they believed in. Sadly the board blamed it on Couch Barber who had "lost control of his team" but Barber stood up and explained that "our kids are waking up, and when that happens, change happens"

Act of Terrorism-3

Ahmad Khan Rahami, is directly linked to the pipe bomb bombing in New York and could be linked to the bombing in New Jersey near a Marine Corps charity run . Many people believe it was an act of terrorism, after 29 people were injured down in Chelsea. The explosion left panic to all of the city, people were running trying to find safety.The next day the investigators found surveillance of the same guy walking near the site of the explosion dragging a duffel bag about 40 minutes before the explosion and near the device found, a pressure cooker. Rahami was identified by his fingerprint being on the cellphone of the pressure cooker, and was found sleeping in the doorway of a bar in Linden, New Jersey. after officers responded Rahami shot at them and they shot back shooting him multiple times. Thankfully now there will be heightened security through the city in terminals, airports, and subway stations. Obama spoke about the conflict and complimented New York, "They don't get scared," he said. "That's the kind of strength that makes me so proud to be an American. And, that's the kind of strength that is going to be absolutely critical, not just in the days to come, but in the years to come"

How does pokemon GO help children?-3

An article written by Rachel Cao explains a solution to helping children diagnosed with Aspergers and Autism. Pokemon Go is an very popular app that gets children and even parents out of the house to collect different species of animas. Stephanie Barnhill a mother to 12 year old Ian Thayer explained that her son recently had a love for the outside and his community.  Pokemon Go rewards kids for going to pokestops at different popular landmarks. Lenore Koppelman a mother to 6 year old Raphie who was diagnosed with autism and hyperplexia explains how her son has verbal difficulties but using pokemon GO has influenced her child to associate and communicate with more children. It's interesting because everyone playing is so fixated on catching pokemon "that they are concentrating on finding them more than they are concentrating on his behaviors, like kids usually do" Its another way that children with physical disabilities can fit in! Hopefully these news will be shown all over the world and kids with different disabilities will experience what normal kids these days are doing.

We the United States of America are spy's.-3

As the United States got closer to Russia, Russia got more skeptic so the U.S rebounded and expanded their spying operations against Russia. the Mobilization involves clandestine CIA operatives, National Security Agency cyberspironage capabilities, satellite systems and other assets. The U.S. believes that we will have many terroist threats and be another war zone. The U.S. claims that it is a "effort to rebuild U.S. intelligence cabalities that had continued to atrophy even as Russia sought to reassert itself as a global power". Right now terrorism is the top concern for the intelligence services because we have been behind my Moscow's aggression towards the annexation of Crimea, the intervention in the war in Syria, and the suspected role towards hacking against the U.S. and Europe. The government fears that Russia is trying to influence the outcome of the presidential race, they are now a priority on the intelligence list. Many people have different opinions on what Putin is figuring out but 2 former U.S. intelligence officials involved in the spying operations claim that "Putin's motivations are consistent and clear-to reclaim his country's standing as a global rival of the United States, to destabilize Western governments that contest that aim and to constantly test how much Moscow can provoke its adversaries before they respond". Thank goodness we are figuring out the problem, but hopefully we can track down those 150 Russian foreign intelligence operations! 

Is Donald Trump keeping secrets?-3

After Hillary fainted due to her sickness, Trump agreed to discuss his health problems on Dr.Oz, but after a few questions that were heard were going to be asked trump slightly backed out. His campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway discussed that trump would explain his health records but not in full extent. She discussed that it was unfair that so many americans don't have to share their records but the fact that Trump does is so extensive it is a private situation. It was voted that if trump wins he will become the oldest and "healthiest individual ever elected to presidency" says a letter written by Harold N. Bernstein a doctor of Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. I understand how it can be such a big deal to share a personal information but it is the right of the people to know that we are voting for a healthy president that will stick around!

Clintons Pneumonia -3

At the 9/11 memorial on sunday, Hillary Clinton fainted due to the sickness of pneumonia and dehydration, causing many of the voters to get very worried. People started getting anxious about what would happen, if she would still be a candidate, and etc. But Clinton did portray that even when she was "under the weather, she would want to power through her normal schedule" she still was caught up with the media and socialized through the internet. Not putting the fact that she had pneumonia first and putting what was important to her, the election, in front. Many people did get upset that she did not discuss her health and kept it a secret. Her doctor did release her medical form on her mild case of pneumonia, which did relieve some stress from many people. Hopefully Hillary is getting better and will be back on her feet as soon as possible!

Hurricane-2

In Florida there have been many strong winds and crazy weather that resulted in a 80 mph winds around the coast.  The hurricane knocked out more than 250,000 people's power and fears of additional damage is overcoming the people of florida. Thankfully once the winds hit the land it downgraded into a tropical storm. The storm still spun and stretched from tampa to to the barrier islands of pensacola with a 74 mph gust. Florida's Governor Rick Scott told residents to avoid "unnecessary travel as trees, power lines, road signs, and traffic lights come down across the state". As of 9:30 am this morning 99% in Osceola County were without power. This was the first hurricane that has hit Florida in 11 years since Hurricane Wilma struck in 2005.
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SpaceX rocket explodes-2

An explosion destroyed a rocket that belonged to Elon Musk's spaceX called the Falcon 9, in Cape Canaveral Air Force station. It destroyed everything in it and on it and collapsed from head to toe. it was a routine test for firing at Cape Canaveral, it was meant to blast off and place a satellite in orbit. Luckily no injuries but during the fire the loss of a communications satellite owned by Israel was destroyed, it was meant to expand internet access in Africa. The cause is still unknown. Space X was founded in 2002 and began launching June of 2010, since then it has had 27 successful flights and only one launch accident that destroyed a load of cargo. Scientist are looking into the cause of the destruction and are hoping to have more success in the next year.

Did we find new life?-2

Its crazy to think that scientist have finally discovered another planet that could be another destination to life. An article written by Elliot McLaughlin explained that scientist had gotten a signal that was registered by an radio telescopes located at Zelenchukskaya observatory in Southwest Russia. the Telescope was called the Ratan-600, the telescope did not give them as many answers as did astronomer Nikolai Kardashev's 1964 invention. Kardashev developed a system that could categorize life forms, humans are almost type 1, and this new signal could be a type 2. A type 1 civilization would be able "to marshal energy resources for communications on a planet-wide scale", pretty much the entire human race. A type 2 civilization would go beyond earth of almost 10 billion, it would be able to "harness all the energy emitted by its star". A type 3 civilization would have evolved far enough to energy source of an entire galaxy. Who knows if this invention is telling the truth but scientist and humans are trying to figuring out if the possibility of another world is existent.

Is trump going to win black voters?-2

During a rally last Friday trump gave a speech about blacks and who they should vote for. He used Hillary Clintons latest speech to give him a example of what he discussed, except he explained what he believed in in an awful way. Washington Post describes trumps recent speech as one of the worst pitches. Trump was trying to persuade the blacks into voting for him but at the same time used a ton of stereotypes as examples. "you live in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. what the hell do you have to lose?" He even explained that the african american community is suffering from voting on the democratic side. This time Trump stated some false accusations, research shows that most of the african american community does not live in poverty nor goes to bad schools! Cant wait to see how this election turns out!

Casper Semenya-2

Casper Semenya an 25 year old, competed in the olympics for 800m and won silver in one minute and 55.28 seconds. She was the first black south african woman to ever win a gold for the 800m in 2009. Ever since she first started competing, there was certain conflicts and complaints that approached. Casper was born with physical characteristics associated with the both men and women, with more testosterone in her than the average women track runner many people complained. She had many test while waiting on the sideline of 2011 such as gender verification test, until she could get the clear to do what she loved. the only way Semenya could race was if she took medicine that lowered her testosterone in 2011. it wasn't until another competitor that had the same problem came to compete. Finally the IAAF agreed to let intersex athletes compete without medication. Now better than ever Casper competes!

Naked trump statue-1

Naked statues of Donald Trump have been showing up around the United States one particular is the statue in Manhattan, New York. Underneath the statue reads a plaque saying "the emperor has no balls" meaning he is not a man and is not powerful. The artist wanted it to be a sign of punishment and embarrassment. Which she did accomplish, it was taken down a few hours after many people could walk by and see it. Ginger, the artist, used 300 pounds of clay and silicone to create this statue and to show of a more constipated look.

Morning Joe-1

Donald Trump has not been able to hold onto some critics thoughts. This morning trump criticized "Morning Joe", calling Mika a "neurotic and not very bright mess" and also telling some secretive news about 2 people on the show. Trump was discouraged about a few things that were said about him, he ended up tweeting all of his thoughts. His behavior has caught many peoples eyes and his patience has been very short.

Moving to Canada-1

Recently with the campaign booming people have been saying that they will move to Canada if the component opposite of their choice gets elected. Many Canadians have been hurt thinking that their country is a last resort. Many articles have been giving tips on steps to Canada such as taking up residence, what you will find, become a citizen, and leave the U.S. behind says an article on CBS news.

No more private prisons-1

The justice department has recently decided to close down private prison because of how unsafe they are. On Huffington Post it explained that private prisons were mostly used for inmates that had fewer then 7.5 years in jail, the jail was able to hold about 22,000 inmates. private jails had more conflicts then public such as cell phones getting confiscated eight times more then average, lockdowns, high number of gangs, and etc. The BOP, Federal Bureau of Prisons, has concluded that private prisons are run very poorly and mostly all have at least one safety or security deficiency.

Olympic swimmers charged-1

recently in Rio during the olympics, a group of 4 olympic swimmers got stopped by a taxi that held impersonating police officers. the swimmers claimed that they were robbed and that the "police" destroyed the bathroom. the security camera provided evidence that proved that the swimmers had lied about what happened. the video proves that they were hustled out of the bathroom and offered the men money. It has been discussed to charge the group with vandalism and false testimony. It is understandable how their police force is worried about such a thing, because it is about americans coming to their country to destroy and lie what is not theirs. it has became a political problem because the problem has came to america and not many people know what to do.

most and least religious states

After reading the article, How religious is your state, it has shown me that the way scientist measure what state is most religious through a survey. many people ended up answering a few questions such as how often do you attend services? do you pray daily? do you believe in god? is religion important to you? Alabama was tied as most religious state with Mississippi and many more states in the south trailed close behind. it is interesting that southern states are more dominant in religion than northern states. i feel like scientist are very interested in knowing this information because it is a choice and many people can choose to believe in whatever they want, and for some reason the south believes in more then the north. i think they thought it was interesting just like i did. 

What I've done!

Recently in AP gov our class has taken a quiz on what kind of political view we have, i ended up getting the next generation left which means that i am very liberal to certain views like "homosexuality, abortion, the environment and the foreign policy", i also took a quiz that told me how much of the current events going on i know of, i score a 8/12. i am very excited for the rest of the year and can't wait to learn more!