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by Brian Lau | Link to Article Summary : Lately, there has been tension stirring between the US and Venezuela. This happened after a politician named Juan Guaidó campaigned to become the "interim president" of Venezuela by rebelling against Nicolás Maduro, the president at the time. Guaidó felt strongly that Maduro's re-election was unfair. So President Trump and the US decided to speak out in support of Guaidó's cause. The US also imposed sanctions (trade bans) with Venezuela on oil as an attempt to stop the Venezuelan economy from growing and give Maduro less control over the economy. All in all, the US ended up Guaidó to a successful election as an interim president of Venezuela on January 5, 2019. In the following weeks, many people who were loyal supporters of Maduro were very angry at Guaidó's election. Viewing the US as an enemy due to their support of Guaidó, Venezuela began to assault and detain large numbers of Americans, even those who were ...

"[Enslaved Africans] would come on ships right on the edge of the water," Egunfemi says. "Then [slave traders] would march them in the middle of the night because the wealthy Richmonders did not want to see people that have just come from a three-month journey from Africa. Barefoot. The smell was unbearable." Link By: Carolina Lopez Summary: Free Egunfemi, founder of Untold RVA and independent historian, shares Richmond's untold stories.  Gabriel, in the drawing, was a "hero" who tried to hold the governor of Virginia hostage in 1800 to bargain for freedom for slaves. Gabriel's rebellion failed after someone reported the plot. Gabriel and his conspirators were discovered and hung. Since 1600, the first enslaved Africans arrived in the English colonies. Because white Virginians used African slavery to expand the tobacco industry, they became the most powerful colony in the New World. Slaves like Gabriel fought back as white Virginian...

Snow Squalls bring Near-Whiteout Conditions to Northeast article link here summary by Camila Krause A series of snow-squalls are ripping through the Northeast cities - New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc. There has already been 9 reported deaths. The storms have brought near-whiteout conditions,  making driving on roads a dangerous task. Officials in the Midwest are warning people of almost instant frostbite as temperatures reach farther below zero .Thousands of flights and trains have been canceled - mainly in and out of Chicago. Nearly 70% of the continental United States are continuing to see temperatures at or below freezing. The weather has been described as the "coldest air in a generation." Connection: I can connect this to the rising sea levels around the world. These winter storms are a weather phenomenon, which many scientist believe could be linked to global warming - just like the rising sea levels. Questions: 1. Do you believe that global war...

China helps build Wealth! URL:  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/29/magazine/china-globalization-kazakhstan. html by: Nick Lee  Summary: In the world today, we are faced with the ideas of expansion; to the moon or spreading out to areas of desolation in Eurasia. The specific spot is near Kazakhstan and it was an area in which the Soviet Union had used to farm and drill oil from the ground. This is Chinas main goal of getting and gaining this land, the total profit would be $30 million from being able to connect the oil pipes with China's. Also by gaining and using this land properly, China would be able to use seaports for excessive trade. But not all of the land is used for good. There were around $130 million dollars found in the smuggling ring. There is high corruption and very few people who live here are wealthy. Opinion: My opinion on this article is that there are many factors contributing to securing land and its uses carry a history go...

https://newsela.com/read/government-shut-down-ends/id/49057/ Summary: In Washington D.C, January 25,  Donald Trump reluctantly reopened the government after shutting down the federal agencies for 35 days. The shutdown was recorded as the longest in history. President Trump took back his stipulation that Congress give him the money to separate the US from Mexico before federal workers are allowed back to work.  Trump planned to sign the legislation that would fund closed agencies, in order to persuade lawmakers to fund the wall.  The Senate, House, and later Trump, signed the deal that would get employees back to work. With the shutdown and the thousands of workers missing their payday, the president was forced to reopen the government when the Democrats refused to make a deal that would fund the wall. Many Americans are blaming Trump for the prolonged standoff as the number of polls against the wall increases. The shutdown is to continue on February 15 if Congress...

      It doesn't matter if Ecuador can afford this dam.China still gets payed  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/world/americas/ecuador-china-dam.html Summary: The Dam in Reventador, Ecuador is in bad condition. This Dam was built and engineered by China to solve the countries energy shortage and to get them out of poverty. Instead the dam has become a money pit. It has put them in debt and has major scandals surrounding it. Every official who has something in jail for things such as bribery. this dam has racked up 19 million dollars worth of debt which is something ecuador cant afford with money. So they are settling this debt with oil which would cause the country to fall into recession.  Connection: A connection that I made is with what is happening presently with Donald Trump. he is trying to make Mexico pay for a border wall that is on their land. a difference that can be seen is that the wall has not been built and the Dam has.  Questions: ...

Pelosi claims win over trump in the state of the union shutdown Article link here Summary: The CNN article covers the current state of the government shutdown. Pelosi told trump that he will not be allowed to give the state of the union speech in the House chamber, and trump lashed out on Twitter by saying " She's afraid of the truth and the super left Democrats, the radical Democrats." and that he plans on giving the SOTU address at a different venue. Trump is also still having a hard time of turning the tides of his battle for the wall, when CNN asked people who they thought was winning the argument,  47% of those asked thought that the speaker (Pelosi and other government officials) were doing a better job handling shutdown talks, compared to 35% for the President. Connection: This connects (in length of the shutdown) to the 2013 shutdown between Obama and the republican house that was solved in 16 days compared to the current 35 days. The argument with Obam...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/24/politics/government-shutdown-end-mitch-mcconnell-chuck-schumer/index.html Summary: Due to Trump's request for $5 billion to fund the building of his wall. The democratic party has strongly been opposed to his plea. However today in the senate both parties pushed for the governments reopening and both were dejected before being pushed to the final phase. Where a mere one democrat voted for the republican bill while six republicans voted for the democratic bill. In the end Trump continues to push for the funding of the wall and it's stated that the wall would cost over $7 billion. Connection: Similar to right now, in 1995 the government shut down during  Clinton's term. Currently its the democratic party against a republican president however in 1995 it was a republican congress and a democratic president fighting over funding for public heath, medicare, education, and the environment in the 1996 federal budget. Questions: What ...

California teen leads legal efforts to allow immigrants to remain in U.S. https://newsela.com/read/California-teen-leads-immigration-lawsuit/id/48767/ Summery:  Trump stated he wanted to end humanitarian protections for many immigrants and end programs that protect immigrant workers. The  Temporary Protected Status (TPS), it protects over  260,000 immigrants from the Central America to lawfully live and work in the U.S. and, recently, it was almost shut down. Without TPS, immigrants wouldn't be able to work and would face deportation.  Crista Ramos is a 14-year-old high school freshman from San Francisco, California,that is a lot like us, however, she is a proud supporter of the TPS and speaks up for protection of TPS because it keeps her family together and safe. Recently, she became a voice that advocates for TPS and had become  s "the lead plaintiff in an important class-action lawsuit."  she states,  "I  th ink about how the...

Post by: Carl Kohnke Title: They Design Spacecraft and Fight Epidemics for America. The Shutdown May Scare Them Away. URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/us/civil-servants-government-work.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Summary: The standoff between President Trump and the Senate has pushed the government shutdown to a record high of 32 days (as of January 24th). This government shutdown has lead many NASA employees to miss their second paycheck of 2019. Though NASA is a US federal company, its shutdown affects people all around the world, like Dr. Costa of Brazil. Many newer NASA employees have diverted their efforts to working for other companies, like Lyft, to barely make ends meet. As NASA employee Dr. Kulis says, “We didn’t get Ph.D.s just to sit around”. Some of the smartest and most hardworking people are not being put to work, and this is showing a clear negative impact on national and international research and development...

Title of Article: She asked him not to wear his Trump shirt at her gym. It caused an uproar. URL:   https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/23/she-asked-him-not-wear-his-trump-shirt-her-gym-it-caused-an-uproar/?utm_term=.25b7f1ea87f9 Summary/ Reaction: Last Sunday, Army Staff Sargent Jake Talbot went to CDY fitness in Troy Missouri, his gym of eight years, wearing a 2016 Trump Campaign shirt. He had worn this shirt multiple times in the past except this time was different, he was approached by the gym's owner, Liz Drew, who asked him to no longer wear the shirt saying, " it could be construed as racist and several of my members had complained about feeling uncomfortable when [you] wore that." After the situation, Talbot left and began posting on social media about what happened, arguing that Trump doesn't represent racism, and the act of forcing him to not wear the shirt was unjust.  In my personal opinion, I think that the gym owner had the ...

'Everything is an adventure now': Saudi women celebrate new driving freedoms as ban is lifted https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-women-driving-ban-lifts-end-celebrations-licences-riyadh-jeddah-dammam-a8414591.html Summary:   This article talks about how Saudi Arabia abolished its ban on women driving and gives examples of how some women enjoyed their first time as the driver. These women have such little power in their community because it is runned by a whole male system that the pleasure of driving is such a big step into the right direction of better equality. These women have been frustrated because they would always have to rely on either a father or a brother to drive them places, even though they are fully capable of taking themselves. Abolishing this rule gives these women freedom that they haven’t had before and many of them are excited for this new step. Yet, many of them will not be able to drive for a while due to long waits...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/laquan-mcdonald-officers-acquitted.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage     In 2014, there was a young black teenager by the name of Laquan McDonald who was shot by a white officer by the name of Jason Van Dyke. There were two other officers that were involved in this case who lied to protect the officer who shot and killed Laquan. On Thursday, all of the charges against these officers were acquitted and many viewed this as a "code of silence" in the police department. The prosecutors came forward to present the jury with as much evidence that they could provide.  The prosecutors also argued that the officers "shooed" away the witnesses so that it would be easier to cover it up. I believe that these officers knew what they were doing and that they had made a mistake. This would then bring me to believe that they were trying to cover it up. This connects to a case in 1955 in Mississippi on a ...

Missile Defense Review: North Korea remains 'extraordinary threat' to US URL of Article - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/01/17/missile-defense-review-north-korea-still-poses-extraordinary-threat/2610585002/ Image from Article -   (Satellite Images of a North Korean nuclear factory's upgrades) Summary/Reaction - After President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a meeting together in Singapore, President Trump appears to be underwhelmed by the possible nuclear threat that North Korea is continuing to develop. Trump claims that, "There is no longer a threat from North Korea" and that "everybody can now feel much safer". North Korea on the other hand has not taken major steps to remove its nuclear weapon programs, continues to develop its ballistic weapons at several locations, and has denied international inspectors to visit the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. After reading the article, I was amazed that Presiden...

url:  https://www.nytimes.com/ 2019/01/14/us/politics/nato- president-trump.html This article is discussing the movement out of the alliance tied with NATO that President Trump is accountable for. He reveals that his arrangement of removing this alliance will cause a disruption in his ties with Mr. Putin and how "he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States." People are starting to get worried about the removal of this alliance that has been building up for decades as it contributes to less help from other countries if it leaves. This connects to World War II because this event is dealing with the complications between the U.S alliances and our military position among other countries. If we let go of NATO our resources, battle strategies, defense, and power will all decrease if we get attacked from other countries.  Why do you think President Trump wants to abolish our alliance with NATO? Do you thin...

  Source:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/17/government-shutdown-nancy-pelosi-white-house-state-of-the-union/2602378002/  Image:  Nancy Pelosi, House speaker of the Democratic, and President Donald Trump of the United States.  Michael Collins and David Jackson , USA TODAY Summary/Reaction: Due to the government shutdown and the growing tension between the Democratic House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and President Donald Trump there has been issues with federal workers not being able to receive any payment for their work until the shutdown is over. Pelosi had simply announced that her military flight overseas trip has been postponed due to workers not being able to work until they are payed, Pelosi later agrees with them because she understands their situation and disagrees with Trumps' decisions. On the other hand Trump reschedules her trip because he rather have Pelosi in Washington negotiating with him to end the government s...

Source : https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/08/trump-speech-president-wall-government-shutdown-democratic-house/2511542002/ Image : Summary/Reaction : This article talks about the 10 minute address to the nation that President Trump gave on Tuesday evening January 8th, 2019 in response to the lengthy government shutdown.  This was the first time that Trump has addressed the nation from the Oval Office and his purpose was to discuss the “dire security and humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border” which he argued can only be solved through Congressional approval of “$5.7 billion for a wall he says will block illegal immigration and illicit drug s.”  After the President spoke, the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate (Pelosi and Schumer) also spoke to the American people and argued that the President was holding the “American people hostage” by refusing to end the government shutdown without Congress approvi...

Source : https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/education-department-investigating-alleged-discrimination-of-native-american-students-in-montana/2019/01/04/ef3ecbe8-1045-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?utm_term=.a4981b97a634 Image : Summary/Reaction : This article confirms that the government (Department of Education Civil Rights Office) will investigate claims of discrimination against Native American students in Montana that was exposed last month in a New York Times and ProPublica article ( LINK to original article).  The complaint was filed by Native Americans students who live on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and attend Wolf Point High School where they make up 57% of the student population.  The students assert that their school, “deprives them of basic right s to which they are entitled in school.” The Department of Education is going to investigate claims about the difference in discipline, special education services, test scores, e...