School is hard, as India’s prime minister Narendra Modi can probably attest. Modi struggled in getting his bachelor’s degree from a distance learning program, even failing in his second year.
The US Department of Justice has a solution to reduce the rapidly mounting backlog of immigration cases: Case quotas for judges.
China has made its first move in what now looks like a trade war with the United States, following its warning on Mar. 23. In retaliation for newly announced US tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods, China will impose tariffs on 128 US goods, effective today.
Donald Trump announced a new US policy in New Hampshire yesterday—the US would seek the most severe punishment for drug dealers to combat the country’s crippling opioid epidemic, he said, a move quickly affirmed by the Department of Justice. “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time,” the US president said, “and that toughness includes the death penalty.”
Update (8:26amET March 20) This story has been updated with news of the FedEx blast in Schertz, Texas.
Deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe was fired by Jeff Sessions yesterday (March 16), with the accusation of not being transparent enough regarding the conversations he allowed between FBI officials and journalists.
For a country that prides itself on democracy, the US has plenty of citizens who think there might be better forms of government. According to a March 13 poll from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group, one in four Americans think it would be good to have a “strong leader” who does not have to bother with Congress and elections.
Felix Sater, a Soviet-born former Donald Trump advisor and real estate dealer, confirmed last night to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that the Trump Organization negotiated with sanctioned Russian bank VTB to build Trump World Tower in Moscow:
New ways in which Facebook might have played a role in 2016 election meddling continue to emerge. Yesterday (March 16), the company announced the suspension of data analytics company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its prominent parent political firm Cambridge Analytica—three years after it illegally used the data of up to 50 million users.
Opioids are the first cause of accidental death in the US. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), opioid-related overdose deaths have sharply risen in the recent years. In 2016 alone, 64,000 people in the US died of overdose, primarily due to opioid use.
A little lying to America’s neighbor to the north is par for the course of running a country, Trump appears to think. According to the Washington Post, during a private fundraising speech March 14 Trump boasted about lying to Canada’s Justin Trudeau about America’s trade deficit with the country.
Students and teachers across the US are staging school walkouts today to demand tighter gun control, beginning at 10 am EST on the east coast and continuing till tonight. Early social media posts reveal press kits handwritten by elementary schoolers and high-schoolers holding hands in peaceful demonstration around their schools, in a life-affirming children’s protest.
Donald Trump has made “fake news” a rallying cry but distrust in the media is bipartisan: Often, it seems politicians of both parties toss around throwaway sentences such as “despite what the media says,” or “you won’t find this in the media, but… ” as casually as they chat about the weather.
Teachers and high-school students are staging walkouts across the US today (March 14) to demand tighter gun control. The walkouts start at 10am ET on the east coast, then continue westward through the day.
In 1982, John Beck—a strategy advisor and former business professor at Harvard and UCLA—was a 22-year-old Harvard student working on his thesis on juvenile crime in Japan. In the 1980s, Japan had seen an uncharacteristic increase in juvenile crime, which was associated with bōsōzoku (暴走族), or biker gangs. These groups, Beck says, comprised between 20 and 50 youth, under the age of 21, who would have standoffs that involved beating and sometimes knifing each other.
The strictest abortion law in America is waiting on the desk of Mississippi’s governor. Approved by the state senate on March 6, the bill would ban abortion statewide for women who are more than 15 weeks pregnant.
In Iran, nearly 70% of university graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are women—a higher percentage than in any other country. Nearby Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are close, each boasting over 60% female graduates in science, still more of the rest of the world.
The Trump administration has finalized its rules on funding family planning organizations, and it’s doubling down on a controversial contraceptive method: Abstinence education, an approach so ineffective it has been shown to increase likelihood of accidental pregnancy.
Steve Bannon’s ”ultimate dream” came true last night in Italy: Anti-establishmentarianism, isolationism, xenophobia and populism won the country’s general elections on March 4.
Hope Hicks today became the fourth White House communications chief to depart the job in under a year.
John Oliver says he could be Italy’s next prime minister, and he’s probably right.
Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 after turning a grassroots women’s movement into the force that ended her country’s civil war
Earlier this month, Melinda and Bill Gates’s annual letter said they’d been looking to identify areas in which they could expand their philanthropic work in the US. To do so, Bill explained, they took a tour across the country.
Nationwide discussion of gun ownership in the US has been revived after the mass shooting in that killed 17 in Parkland, Florida.
