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Released June 25, 2015: U.S. Hispanic or Latino population by race – America’s largest population after White is still Black or African American In the United States the term Hispanic or Latino confuses many including demographers, those in the print media and television media. We often read that the Hispanic or Latino population is now the nations 2nd largest […]

New York City: A brand new LaGuardia Airport Associated Press New York City- A year after comparing New York’s LaGuardia Airport to “some Third World Country,” Vice President Joe Biden helped unveil an ambitious plan Monday to rebuild its collection of aging terminals into a modern, unified hub while easing congestion by doubling the space […]

NASA’s Kepler Mission discovers bigger, older cousin to Earth NASA NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.” The newly discovered Kepler-452b […]

The flag of a foreign nation: The Confederate States of America was not the United States of America From 1861 to 1865 the Confederate States of America had a federal government modeled on that of the United States of America from which its member states had seceded to establish and independent country. Formed in February […]

Cuban flag flies in Washington for the first time in 54 years Azam Ahmed The Sydney Morning Herald WASHINGTON, DC- Throngs of demonstrators gathered to witness the raising of the flag of Cuba over the Cuban embassy, the first time it has flown in Washington here since the US broke off diplomatic relations with the […]

NASA’s 3 billion-mile journey to Pluto reaches historic encounter NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. NASA After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface — roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the […]

U.S. army plans to cut 40,000 troops Tom Vanden Brook Army Times The Army plans to cut 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next two years, a reduction that will affect virtually all of its domestic and foreign posts, the service asserts in a document obtained by USA TODAY. The potential troop cut comes […]

Millennials now outnumber Baby Boomers The population born between 1946 and 1964 is commonly referred to as the Baby Boom generation. Generation X is the population born between 1965 and 1981. Millennials are the population born between 1982 and 2000. U.S. Census Gen Xers are projected to remain the “middle child” of generations – caught […]

White House ends 40-year ban on the use of cameras by tourists Darlene Superville Associated Press WASHINGTON— Want to take a picture inside the White House Blue Room? Well, it’s now OK to pull out your cellphone or camera and press “shoot.” The White House on Wednesday ended a long-standing ban on tourists taking photos […]

Cuba is the first country in the world to ​eliminate mother-to-baby HIV transmission WHO validates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Cuba World Health Organization News release 30 JUNE 2015 ¦ GENEVA ¦ WASHINGTON – Cuba became the first country in the world to receive validation from WHO that it has eliminated […]