Microsoft announced on Jan. 18 that it had agreed to purchase controversial video game studio Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in one of the largest technology acquisitions in history. The deal was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and then officially announced by Microsoft.
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Affirmative action has been a prevalent policy in the United States for the last 40 years. The withstanding practice attempts to limit discrimination in college admissions and job hiring by increasing efforts to include individuals in disadvantaged groups. In 2003, Grutter v. Bollinger permitted universities around the country to consider race as one of many factors in college admissions. A few attempts have been made since then to repeal affirmative action, including a case in 2016 with the University of Texas at Austin. Now, the Supreme Court has decided to take another affirmative action case, but this time the Court looks a little different.
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On Jan. 18, the Indonesian Government approved a bill to relocate their capital. Indonesia’s current capital city, Jakarta, faces problems from overpopulation and global warming that led officials to conclude it is not sustainable as a base of government operations.
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As of Sunday, Jan. 23, Russia is in the process of finalizing a months-long military build-up along the Ukrainian border in a move that many observers believe is in preparation for a large-scale invasion of its neighboring nation.
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On Jan. 15, an underwater volcano called Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai erupted close to Tonga, a county in the Pacific Ocean. This eruption created a massive shockwave traveling at 1000 feet per second, triggering a major tsunami across the Pacific.
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Following President Joe Biden’s announcement last month that Americans would soon be able to order at-home Covid-19 tests for free from the federal government, the website covidtests.gov is now live and accepting orders for four free tests per household. Neither proof of citizenship nor a credit card is required to order the tests.
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Representatives from nations around the globe met in Glasgow, Scotland to discuss new measures to be taken to address climate change. This summit, called the Twenty-sixth Conference of the Parties (COP26), began on Oct. 31 and will continue through Nov. 12.
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On Oct. 13, the World Health Organization (WHO) honored Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells were unknowingly stolen from her for research purposes. Lacks’s cells were used without consent extensively in the research and treatment of numerous illnesses including HPV, polio, Parkinson’s, HIV/AIDS, numerous types of cancer and even COVID-19, making her incredibly important to medical advancements.
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At approximately 5:34 a.m. EDT on Oct. 16, Lucy, NASA’s newest probe, launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Lucy is on a mission to gather data from Jupiter’s previously unexplored Trojan asteroids.
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Sir David Amess, Member of Parliament(MP) in the British House of Commons, was stabbed to death on Oct. 15 in Essex, England. According to the BBC, he was attacked at a church in Leigh-on-Sea. Police continue to question a man that they arrested on the suspicion of murder. Amess died at the scene of the stabbing as paramedics attempted to save him. He was 69 years old.
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On Oct. 2, emergency response crews raced to curtail a sizable oil spill impacting the coast of California’s Orange County. AP reported that the clean-up crews were dispatched after a 13 square mile oil slick was sighted only a few miles away from the shoreline. This was one of the most significant spills to hit California since the costly 1969 Santa Barbara disaster, which saw over 4 million gallons of oil discharged into the sea.
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On Oct. 31, the first GA Summit meeting involving leaders from 20 different countries was held in Rome, Italy for the first time in two years. They tackled multiple global issues centered around shared economic, political and health issues during the meeting.
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For months, many Americans have been awaiting the federal government’s recommendations when it comes to vaccinating their children for Covid-19. On Oct. 29, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the Pfizer Vaccine for children ages five to eleven. With the pandemic raging for about 18 months in the United States, a panel of experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has voted on the FDA’s decision on Nov. 2. They concurred with the FDA, making children officially able to take the Pfizer Vaccine.
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An audit of the 2020 election in Arizona’s Maricopa County reaffirmed that the majority of the region’s votes had been for President Joe
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For more than two decades, R. Kelly has been faced with numerous allegations of child pornography, having sexual relations with minors, and other various sexual assault cases. In the past, he has escaped plenty of these charges by having charges dropped, and according to The New York Times, Kelly was acquitted during his trial where 11 victims spoke out about their experiences.
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The U.S. now has access to three vaccines approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They are Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer. As of now, Pfizer is the only company that has federal approval to administer a third dose of its mRNA vaccine to certain groups.
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On Sept. 21, the leaders of all 193 United Nations member states convened in New York City to address the organization’s 76th General Assembly. The yearly gathering resumed this fall for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Representing billions of people, the annual meeting is a platform where leaders can publicize the agendas and future plans of their countries.
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A new investigation by The Wall Street Journal has found that numerous reviews within Facebook have revealed critical flaws with several of the company’s products, but the company has failed to make these findings public.
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On Sept. 13, the AP reported that Apple released an emergency update to address glaring vulnerabilities in its messaging platform iMessage. The patch was crafted to prevent “no-click” spyware from infecting devices manufactured by the global tech giant.
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On Sept. 8, a letter was created by faculty at Stanford University in hopes of stopping the China Initiative permanently. According to Reuters, this letter states “(I)t is harming the United States’ research and technology competitiveness and it is fueling biases that, in turn, raise concerns about racial profiling.”
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