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UNITED STATES—U.S. Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York's 14th District and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey released a new resolution for the New Green Deal on Thursday, February 7. Ocasio-Cortez’s first attempt of the passage of the 14-page resolution was rejected by Democrats in November 2018, deciding to utilize an older version from 2012. Bloomberg reported that Markey, who was the lead...

UNITED STATES−Pentagon officials reported that Iranian Major-General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. airstrike on Thursday, January 2 in Baghdad. The airstrike took place at Baghdad’s International Airport. The U.S. Department of Defense made the announcement in a press release on January 2. “At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect...

WASHINGTON D.C.—Representatives from Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, signed the Abraham Accords, a diplomatic agreement that establishes peace between those countries, during a ceremony that was presided by President Donald Trump in The White House on Tuesday, September 15. The agreement, brokered by the Trump administration, normalizes relations among those countries and commits them to cooperate with each...

UNITED KINGDOM—Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom died at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands on Thursday, September 8, at the age of 96. The King and the Queen Consort will return to London on Friday, September 9. Prince William and Prince Harry were by their grandmother’s bedside the moment doctors indicated the...

UNITED STATES—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent in Charge, Mark Dawson and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick, and District Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Tony Bryson reported a large-scale marriage scheme that yielded over 206 indictments. A total of 96 people are charged for their roles in the marriage fraud scam; a total of 50...

UNITED STATES—The state of Missouri became the first state in North America to sue the Chinese government claiming they mishandled their response regarding the Coronavirus outbreak, which went on to impact the entire world. Missouri filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government on Tuesday, April 21, indicated that the virus, which originated in the city of Wuhan, brought devastating...

UNITED STATES—On January 13, close to 200 Honduran immigrants traveled to the city of San Pedro Sula, Guatemala where they are to meet with other members, approximately 7,000 to the US border after President Elect Joe Biden announced that he would be easing border crossing restrictions if he became President. Approximately, 3,000 police officers in the village of Vado Hondo,...

UNITED STATES—Former First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush died in her west Houston home on Tuesday, April 17. The Texas matriarch was committed to promoting literacy. She was a strong supporter of the National Literacy Act, which was enacted in 1991. She was the mother of President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the wife of President...

UNITED STATES—Public records indicate that Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi traveled to Ukraine with her son Paul Pelosi Jr. as part of a business initiative with the U.S. in 2017. Video footage reportedly from March 2013, depicts Pelosi speaking about clean energy and vehicles that are capable of going 100 miles per gallon. Paul Pelosi Jr., Board Member of the...

SAN FRANCISCO—UCSF scientists may have discovered the world's first prophylactic solution against Covid-19, which would be used in the form of a nasal spray or inhaler, as stated in a press release on Monday, August 11. The team of scientists who belong to the Walter lab at UCSF were able to engineer synthetic nanobodies that when tested, prevent the...