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U.S. President Barack Obama’s approval rating President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has settled down into a significantly smaller range in 2014 than it has in any of his five previous years in office. This year, through the week that ended Dec. 14, Obama’s weekly approval averages have ranged between a high of 45% and […]

Morocco’s planned Al Noor Tower- Africa’s tallest skyscraper at 540 metres (1771.65 ft) Casablanca’s newest landmark By John O’Ceallaigh Telegraph (UK) Visitors to Casablanca typically explore its famed Hassan II mosque and medina, but that could change following the announcement of plans to build Africa’s tallest skyscraper in the Moroccan city. Dubai-based developers Middle East […]

United States to bid for 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games By United States Olympic Committee (USOC) REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – The United States Olympic Committee board of directors unanimously approved a U.S. bid to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the USOC announced today. Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., remain under […]

U.S. Army building an airport just for drones in El Paso, Texas Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Complex (UAV) located on Fort Bliss Army Military Installation in El Paso, Texas. The airport will house the drones Gray Eagle and Shadow and include a 50,000-square-foot unmanned aircraft maintenance hangar and more than a mile of runways, aprons, and taxiways. […]

Wealth inequality has widened along racial, ethnic lines since end of Great Recession BY Rakesh Kochhar and Richard Fry Pew Research Center The Great Recession, fueled by the crises in the housing and financial markets, was universally hard on the net worth of American families. But even as the economic recovery has begun to mend […]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover finds clues to how water helped shape Martian landscape NASA News Release December 8, 2014 Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of Curiosity’s finds in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained […]

Bermuda will host the 2017 America’s Cup Source: America’s Cup Event Authority The next America’s Cup will be raced in Bermuda in June of 2017. The host venue was confirmed at a press conference in New York on Tuesday by Harvey Schiller, the Commercial Commissioner for the America’s Cup. “In Bermuda we have a perfect […]

Denver has new commuter trains By Nathan Heffel KUNC The East Commuter Rail Line between Denver’s Union Station and the Denver International Airport remains on schedule to open in 2016. The first four commuter cars that will travel the line have arrived in Colorado and are parked at Union Station in preparation for public tours. […]

Update: January 13, 2016 NFL: Rams will return to Los Angeles for 2016 season, history of NFL mergers and Super Bowl NFL: Rams will return to Los Angeles for 2016 season, history of NFL mergers and Super Bowl ____________ An NFL team in Los Angeles? Oakland or St. Louis – New stadiums in Atlanta and Minneapolis […]

The season of blackface, in parts of Europe, returns- Zwarte Piet Black Pete Racist? ‘Zwarte Piet’ Controversy Leads To 90 Arrests In Netherlands By Howard Koplowitz International Business Times Protesters disrupted a pre-Christmas celebration Saturday in the Netherlands that uses “Black Petes” to accompany St. Nicholas, leading to 90 arrests in the Dutch town of […]