Month: January 2021

Some Americans are criticizing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for possibly influencing the U.S. presidential election. The criticism started last Friday after the bureau’s director, James Comey, sent a…

Today’s story is called “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It is about something strange that happened long ago in a valley called “Sleepy Hollow”. It was written by Washington Irving.…

Tim Kaine is the Democratic Party’s vice-presidential nominee. He represents the eastern state of Virginia in the United States Senate. Kaine is 58 years old. He is married and has…

Speed dating is an efficient way for single people hoping to find romance to meet a number of other single people at once. People who attend a speed dating event…

Mike Pence is the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee. He is the governor of the Midwestern state of Indiana. He is a very different person from Donald Trump, the party’s presidential…

A program designed to help families escape poverty in the American state of Georgia is serving as a model for other parts of the United States. The program is a…

A growing number of people are using computer software and other technology to support the needs of immigrants worldwide. Many of these people already work in the technology industry. Some…

Educators in Turkey are at the center of a government campaign against Kurdish rebels. More than 12,000 teachers have been suspended for suspected ties to the Kurdish Worker’s Party, or…

Income inequality in the United States is a major election campaign issue. It is an issue of interest to many people across the country. Studies have shown that 49 million…

Each year, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) use pumpkins to create interesting things related to space. JPL is part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the American…

A jury in the northwestern state of Oregon has acquitted seven people involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge. After the decision on Thursday, a lawyer for…

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has called for a constitutional amendment to permit two terms for the country’s president. Currently, the president can hold office for only a single five-year…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he wants to reduce ties with the United States and strengthen relations with China. This has raised questions about what this will mean for the…

Pakistan is investigating a suicide attack on a police training center in the country’s southwest. The attackers killed over 60 new police recruits and wounded more than 120 others. The…

In early 2015, people working for Hillary Clinton offered opinions on whether she should attend a Clinton Foundation meeting in Morocco. The workers were assisting Clinton in her campaign to…