2018
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May 11, 2018 – USA Takes a Hit
President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement with the Iran pleased both Israel and Iran’s major rival but not Iran or others. ... [Read more...]
2017
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December 21, 2017 – Middle East, so what’s next? Part Two
On Monday, the UN Security Council voted against the US decision to recognize Jerusalem ... followed by a vote in an UN General Assembly on December 21st. ... [Read more...] -
January 13, 2017 – America, Not the Best of Times
America’s world status is changing, according to the international news media, and she is losing allies right and left. ... [Read more...]
2016
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April 17, 2016 – North America
California’s forests are dying with help from a little insect less than ¼ inch long. ... "several of the current outbreaks ... occurring simultaneously across western North America, are the largest and most severe in recorded history.” ... [Read more...]
2015
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November 1, 2015 – USA Weather
USA Today’s newspaper headline on October 6, 2015 read, “Biblical flooding becoming more common — South Carolina’s 1-in-1000 year rain is 6th in the US since 2010.” ... [Read more...] -
June 17, 2015 – Global
Corporate America and U.S. Catholic politicians seem to be on a collision course with the Vatican State and Eastern Orthodoxy. ... [Read more...] -
June 11, 2015 — USA
A Washington Post June 5, 2015 headline read, "Egg rationing in America has officially begun" ... [Read more...] -
April 23, 2015 – USA & Canada
Wild animals attacking humans has become headline news again. ... [Read more...] -
March 16, 2015 – USA Weather
“January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows”. ... [Read more...] -
February 19, 2015 – USA Health
Not that long ago a measles outbreak originating in Southern California was prime time news; this time it is a deadly superbug known as CRE. ... [Read more...] -
February 17, 2015 – USA Weather
So far, February’s weather has not brought relief to Americans. On her west coast, it has been unseasonably warm. While much needed precipitation fell earlier in the month, it was not enough to break the drought. Meanwhile, record shattering winter storms keep pounding the eastern half of the country. ... [Read more...] -
January 28, 2015 – USA Weather
Weather wise, in America January 2015 finished up as a month of extremes. ... [Read more...] -
January 23, 2015 – USA
Cheating allegations involving an American professional football team dominated the country’s news the last part of January 2015. ... [Read more...]
2014
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November 20, 2014 – USA
Something positive to report — CBS TV's This Morning aired a clip of an example of good sportsmanship and neighborliness. ... [Read more...] -
September 28, 2014 – USA
In 2014, three more ailments have managed to join the once unknown diseases of Ebola, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection, the West Nile virus, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS); in grabbing the Western world's attention. ... [Read more...] -
September 22, 2014 – Weather USA
The extreme drought has not lessened in the American Southwest and experts continue to predict it will only get worse. ... [Read more...]