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1. What is Hillary Clinton’s plan to help coal communities?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Clinton is advocating for a plan to spend $30 billion to expand the American Federation of Teachers’ Reconnecting McDowell program that seeks to use public-private partnerships to build housing for teachers so that they can encourage economic improvement. The plan also calls for federal investments in infrastructure, local development, job training, and extending tax credits to coal communities.[/toggle]
2. According to the FBI, reports of hate crimes in the U.S. fell by this much in 2014.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]8%. The FBI reported that there were 5,462 hate crimes last year, with racially-motivated crimes being the biggest category. However, critics say that the FBI numbers are lower than actual hate crimes and that those against Muslims and African Americans are rising.[/toggle]
3. What is the current U.S. unemployment rate?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]5%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. economy added 271,000 jobs in October, making up for a sluggish September. The unemployment rate is now the lowest that it has been since 2008.[/toggle]
4. According to the results of the Myanmar election, what percentage of the vote did the National League for Democracy (NLD) win?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]80%. This vote share is greater than the 50% that the NLD received in 1990, which was the last time elections for the national legislature were held. Myanmar’s military annuled those elections. The vote gives the NLD a two-thirds majority in both houses of the national legislature and will give them the power to choose the president in February.[/toggle]
5. Who did Iowa Representative Steve King endorse in the Republican presidential primary?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Observers think that the endorsement may make Cruz the favorite in the Iowa caucuses, thereby signaling that he is becoming a threat in the GOP race.[/toggle]
6. This nation officially legalized gay marriage this week after becoming the first nation in the world to enact it via popular vote in March.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Ireland. The vote in March was seen as a sign that Ireland is becoming more secular, as the Catholic Church, which used to dominate the nation’s landscape, condemned the vote as a “defeat for humanity.”[/toggle]
7. Which prominent international leader is reportedly planning a trip to North Korea?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The United Nations has downplayed reports, but there is reportedly evidence that Ki-moon is planning a trip to North Korea, thereby beginning a process of bringing the nation out of its current international isolation.[/toggle]
8. This hacker group recently declared war on the Islamic State.
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Anonymous. Anonymous is a collective of hackers that declared on Monday that it is preparing to unleash “a wave of attacks” against the group. It is thought that hackers could make an impact if they damage the Islamic State’s social media outlets and funding sources.[/toggle]
9. What article of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declares that an attack on one nation is an attack on all nations that are part of the organization?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Article 5. Article 5 makes NATO a collective security organization. Experts are wondering whether France will invoke Article 5 after last week’s terrorist attacks. If so, it may force NATO members to commit ground forces to the Middle East to take care of the Islamic State.[/toggle]
10. How many U.S. governors are saying that they will not accept Syrian refugees in response to the Paris attacks?
[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Thirteen. Republican governors in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin say that they are concerned that the settlement of refugees may pose a future security threat.[/toggle]