This past Saturday marked the first anniversary of
US President Donald Trump’s inauguration. However,
before the celebration could begin, came news that
lawmakers had failed to garner the 60 votes needed
to pass a short-term budget bill to fund government
operations until February 16. As a result, at 12:01
am on January 20, the US government officially sh...
Thanksgiving is one of the biggest and most
anticipated of all American holidays. Observed
annually on the fourth Thursday of November, the
secular celebration, which marks the beginning of
the holiday season, can be traced to a harvest feast
enjoyed by the early European settlers, or Pilgrims,
and Native Americans. Though food remains the c...
Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria — these seemingly
innocuous names all belong to powerful hurricanes
that have devastated small islands and major US
cities in the past few weeks. Maria, a Category 5
storm began its path of destruction by pummeling
the Commonwealth of Dominica, a tiny sovereign
island country in the Caribbean, on Tuesday, Septe...
Though it has been 16 years, Americans who lived
through the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
remember the events of the tragic day vividly. Early
that morning, 19 members of the Islamic extremist
organization Al Qaeda, split into four teams, each
with an experienced pilot, and hijacked four
commercial flights — United Flight 93 from New Jer...
On Friday, August 25, Hurricane Harvey made
landfall in Southern Texas as a Category 4 storm,
leaving in its wake unprecedented damage and
chaos. To make matters worse, the storm lingered
around for days, dumping almost 52-inches of rain,
breaking a 50-year record for tropical cyclone rainfall
measured in a single place in the US.
On Saturday, April 29, 2017, President Donald
Trump celebrated his 100th day in office. The
marker has become a perennial fixture on the
American political calendar since Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (1882-1945), the 32nd President of the
United States, helped the country limp back from
the Great Depression with a flurry of new legislatio...
American historian Laurel Ulrich once said,
“Well-behaved women rarely make history.” In
celebration of Women’s History Month, here are a
few of the millions of brave women that have broken
all conventional rules to make a difference in the
world.
A week from today, on Thursday, Nov 24, Americans
will celebrate Thanksgiving. The annual tradition is
credited to a harvest celebration between the early
European settlers and the Native Americans. While
that is true, there is more to that story and the other
traditions observed on this secular holiday, on which
family and friends get together to count their bless...
September is usually a month when the atmospheric
concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) are at their
lowest levels in the northern hemisphere. That’s
because plants suck up a lot of the gas as they grow
during the summer. But this year, the level of the
greenhouse gas has remained stubbornly above the
symbolic “red line” of 400 parts per million. This h...
