Month: January 2021

American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 buildings and other structures during his lifetime. One of the most famous is Fallingwater, a house in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. Wright…

Three sovereign, self-governing Pacific island nations are joined with the United States in Compacts of Free Association. The three are the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the…

South Koreans are thinking about electing the country’s next leader after the arrest of former President Park Geun-hye. Park is the first democratically elected president of South Korea to be…

The cost for homes in the United States to “go solar” has dropped by more than 60 percent over the last 10 years. “Going solar” means changing to an electrical…

American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Ankara on Thursday for talks with Turkish leaders. Tillerson met with Turkey’s president and foreign minister. They talked about efforts to defeat…

This is What’s Trending Today. Minju Kim is a young golfer from South Korea. Recently, she posted a number of photos of herself playing in California on Instagram. She even…

Last week was a bad one for President Donald Trump. On Monday, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey told Congress he had “no information” to support Trump’s claims of…

About 10 percent of Indonesians are registered taxpayers and only about one million report their taxes to the government. That is not a lot for the world’s fourth most populous…

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey recently confirmed an investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 United States elections. Comey said his agency is studying possible links between…

American Astronaut Peggy Whitson set the world record on Thursday for most spacewalks ever made by a woman. She set the record while floating out of the International Space Station…

In 2012, the driver of a Ferrari, an expensive Italian sports car, hit a motorcycle police officer in Bangkok, Thailand, dragged him along the road and fled. A trail of…

The U.S. led coalition in Iraq says it is investigating reports that coalition airstrikes killed as many as 100 civilians in western Mosul this month. Military officials called the death…

Forbes Magazine released its yearly list of the richest people in the world. There are more billionaires than ever before – a record 2,043 billionaires on Earth. Microsoft co-founder Bill…

Love him or hate him, President Donald Trump has been good for satire. Satire is a kind of humor that makes fun of people, groups or governments. It has been…

A German scientist working for Royal Dutch Shell believes the oil company’s businesses in Nigeria “fiercely opposed” environmental testing. The scientist, Kay Holtzmann, also accused the businesses of hiding information.…