NCAA Votes To Let College Athletes Get Paid
The NCAA Board of Governors voted yesterday to unanimously let college athletes get paid for their names, images, and likenesses.
The vote was in response the new California law Fair Pay to Play Act(Senate Bill...
Boeing 737 Hearings Begin
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg is testifying before Congress today in a 2-day session regarding manufacturing mistakes made with it's 737 Max which resulted in 2 plane crashes and 346 casualties.
Investigations after the crashes concluded...
Demonstrations in Baghdad Continue
Protests in Baghdad started up again today after a three-week hiatus.
Demonstrators continued to protest in response to high unemployment, poor public services, and political corruption.
Before the re-start of the protests, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel...
Gene Editing Tool Prime Editing could replace CRISPR
Prime Editing, a new and revolutionary gene-editing technique, could potentially be the most efficient gene editing procedure that has been invented so far.
According to a study published in the journal Nature today, a team...
Turkey Agrees to a 5 Day Ceasefire
Turkey agrees to a 5-day ceasefire as Kurdish fighters are allowed to safely evacuate the 'Safe Zone' area in Northern Syria.
Vice President Mike Pence had been sent to Turkey to work on a deal...
Chicago Strike Leaves 300,000 Students Without Teachers
25,000 teachers went on strike in Chicago today leaving 300,000 students without teachers.
Some of the biggest issues that the teachers have are that the schools are understaffed, the teachers themselves are underpaid, there aren't...
Nationals Win The NLCS and Head To The World Series
The Washington Nationals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-4 yesterday in game 4 of The National League Championship Series(NLCS) taking them to the World Series for the first time in the league's history.
After a...
The U.S. Puts Sanctions On Turkey In Response To Human Rights Violations
The U.S. put sanctions on Turkey yesterday after discovering that Turkey was committing human rights violations in its invasion of Northern Syria.
Last week the U.S. had started withdrawing troops from Syria and Press Secretary...
Pacific Gas & Electric(PG&E) Shuts off Power to 2.5 Million People
Pacific Gas & Electric(PG&E) shut off power today to over 800K customers(2.5 million people) in California in a scheduled power shutoff.
PG&E said that,"To protect public safety, PG&E has turned off power due to gusty...
The U.S. Adds 28 Chinese Companies to a Blacklist
The U.S. added 28 Chinese security companies to a U.S. blacklist yesterday.
The U.S. did this after determining that the 28 companies were directly responsible for human rights violations against Muslim minorities and other ethnic...