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July 16th 2018

1. The UK has begun a campaign to raise Green Day's "American Idiot" to #1 in charts as a peaceful protest ahead of Mr. Trump's visit to the UK. They succeeded.

https://bit.ly/2uABdru

2. There is a bill, S.3188, titled "Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2018" that is currently in Congress. For background, "gay panic" or "trans panic" is a defense one may plead in the court of law against an accusation of having aggressed -including, but not limited to murder and assault- a person of the LGBTQ community.

https://bit.ly/2uG7AFv

3. Robert Mueller has indicted 12 more people, all of whom were officers in the Russian Military at some point, in the investigation of meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Election.

You can read the full report here: https://bit.ly/2Nf2szw

4. The US Treasury recently moved to "no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups ... to identify their financial donors to U.S. tax authorities."

https://reut.rs/2NQ6yQ1

5. Mr. Trump is receiving bipartisan criticism of his behavior at the UK summit, specifically when it came to his interactions with Mr. Putin.

https://fxn.ws/2NVtGg3 https://reut.rs/2LnyQjf

These are some things that have happened recently.

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September 26th, 2017

1. Due to a lack of support, the Affordable Care Act reform that Senate and House Republicans were attempting to pass seems to have been been effectively subdued and retired. This move seems to have prompted a tax reform which increases the income taxation of the lowest bracket from 10% to 15% but also decreases the top tax rate from 39.5% to 35% and doubles the personal exemption.  

2. As of Tuesday, September 26th, Homeland Security allegedly began construction of eight boarder wall prototypes. Four of them were tested using a cement base, the other four were not. 

3. On Monday, September 25th , North Korean Foreign Minister, Ri Yong Ho, accused the United States of declaring war on North Korea:    

"Last weekend Trump claimed that our leadership wouldn't be around much longer and declared a war on our country... Since the United States declared war on our country, we will have every right to make all self-defensive counter measures, including the right to shoot down the United States strategic bombers at any time even when they are not yet inside the aerospace border of our country."

4. Betsy DeVos has begun rolling back the Obama-era policy of Title IX which officially states the requirements and procedures that Colleges and Universities are to followed when a sexual harassment or assault is reported. 

These are some things that have happened recently.

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7/31/18

1. During the Department of Justice's Religious Liberty Summit, which was held on July 31, 2018. During this, he announced that the United States would be creating a Religious Liberty Task Force to defend instances when religious liberty is "challenged."

https://bit.ly/2KeMuDM

2. Guy Fieri- yes, that Guy Fiery- worked with the Salvation Army to provide food for those who gave been displaced by the Carr Fire in Northern California.

https://bit.ly/2LIF4y6

3. Scientists of Spain's University of Seville have discovered a new shape known as a "scutoid." To allow for living creatures to grow into the complex shapes that they are, the outermost cells of the body must grow a certain way and be able to move and bend in specific ways. These specific outermost cells have been given the name "scutoid."

https://go.nature.com/2NSpa0Z

These are some things that have happened recently.

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August 28,2017

1. Donald Trump has pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona Sheriff who was convicted on contempt of court charges after being repeatedly told to cease arrests based on racial profiling. This comes after a letter that Doug Ducey, the current governor of Arizona, allegedly wrote to Mr. Trump urging him to not come to Arizona if the purpose of the trip was to pardon Mr. Arpaio. Many have accused Mr. Trump of using coverage of Hurricane Harvey to mask the pardon.

2. Donald Trump has begun reversing the Obama-era policy regarding a ban on surplus military equipment for police officers.

3. Two organizations, Lambda Legal and Outfront-SLDN (Servicemembers Legal Defense Network) have filed lawsuits against Donald Trump over the transgender military ban.

These are some things that have happened recently.