Bald eagles are a rare sight in cities, but that may be slowly changing. The New York Times reports that a bald eagle named Rover’s presence in New York City is part of a growing trend of birds of prey settling into urban areas. Rover himself was born to a family of bald eagles residing in another city, New Haven, Connecticut.
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Stephen G. Breyer, one of the nine Supreme Court Justices, announced his retirement after his term of almost 27 years on Jan. 26, According to Oyez, a website dedicated to archiving the Supreme Court, his career as a Supreme Court Justice began in 1994 when President Bill Clinton had appointed him for the second time after he lost the year prior to then Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Tensions between Russia and Ukraine have been building over the last few years, but recently the conflict has taken a turn towards war. Russia has gathered an army in preparation for a Ukraine invasion, a move that could change the political landscape of the world. If war comes to fruition, Ukraine’s existence and livelihood could be in peril.
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The 2022 midterm election season has officially arrived, and both Republicans and Democrats have already built up war chests of about $400 million each in preparation. Fundraising levels are higher now then at the same point in 2018 or 2020. Given the Democrats’ 50-50 Senate majority, even one gain or loss could determine which party holds the chamber in the next Congress.
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On Jan. 24, two earthquakes, with magnitudes of 5.4 and 5.6, struck southern Haiti, killing two people and injuring 52. These earthquakes come after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Aug. 2021, which killed over 2,000 people.
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The remains of a rocket booster that helped launch a climate observation satellite in 2015 are on a path to collide with the earth’s moon. Experts predict the collision will occur on March 4 at 7:25 a.m.
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Amid tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine, President Biden ordered the Pentagon to deploy 3,000 U.S. troops to Eastern Europe on Feb. 2. The order reflects the United States’ efforts to support European allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and increase its defenses.
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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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