Month: January 2021

History was made this week when a 34-year-old former refugee was elected to the Minnesota state legislature. The woman, Ilhan Omar, will become the country’s first Somali-American lawmaker. Omar was…

Ten women recently became the first female military officers to complete the U.S. Army’s Infantry Basic Officer Leader’s Course. The program is at Fort Benning in the southern U.S. state…

Last Friday, French police began tearing down a huge camp in northeastern Paris. The camp was home for thousands of Afghans and Africans. Their removal to shelters is part of…

Democrat Hillary Clinton has conceded the American presidential election to Republican Donald Trump. Most political experts and voter studies had predicted Clinton would win the election. But after very close…

The Philippine Supreme Court has ruled that former president Ferdinand Marcos can be buried in a cemetery for national heroes. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had approved the burial. But several…

How will presidential candidate Hillary Clinton govern if she is elected president? Will she act as she did when she served New York as a member of the United States…

At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting Tuesday afternoon near a voting center in Southern California. The attack took place in the city…

The Republican Party will keep control of the United States Congress after nationwide elections Tuesday. The party’s candidates captured at least 51 of the U.S. Senate’s 100 seats, while the…

Donald Trump has proved an unusual political candidate since he entered the 2016 United States presidential campaign. The Republican party nominee is the first billionaire businessman and reality television star…

Pennsylvania television stations are broadcasting so many political advertisements that not even a small child can miss them. So, it was no surprise last week when two-and-a-half-year-old Benson Wyland repeated…

Soccer fans around the world love to question the calls that the referees make during games. One common insult is to say the referee must not be able to see…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved Russian citizenship for American actor Steven Seagal. Putin signed a presidential order granting citizenship to Seagal, a presidential spokesman told reporters on Thursday. The…

The year is 1913. A new president has been elected and is about to take office. But when he arrives at the train station in Washington, DC, few people are…

Has the American election campaign been difficult to watch? Imagine if you had to explain it to a class of middle school students. Every four years, teachers in the United…

Afghanistan is facing another crisis. This time it is a housing and food shortage, resulting from the return to the country of about 800,000 Afghans this year. They had been…