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1. When was the last time that Chicago had a Republican mayor?
[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”]1931. This is when the term of William Hale Thompson, who served as Chicago’s mayor from 1915-1923 and 1927-1931, ended.[/toggle]
2. Students are Princeton University want the name of this former president removed from campus buildings and programs.
[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”]Woodrow Wilson. President Wilson served as Princeton University’s president before becoming the Governor of New Jersey and the President of the United States. Students want Princeton to rename the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the dorm Wilson College due to the fact that Wilson held racist views.[/toggle]
3. This U.S. state is considering raising the smoking age to twenty-one.
[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”]Massachusetts. The state’s legislature is contemplating the move as a way to reduce smoking rates by high schoolers. Some of Massachusetts communities have already taken this step and shown proof that they have reduced teenage smoking use by half. Hawaii became the first state to raise its smoking age to twenty-one back in June.[/toggle]
4. Why has Russia imposed some economic sanctions against Turkey?
[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”]Russia has imposed some limited economic sanctions, such as ending visa-free travel between the countries and refusing to renew the labor contracts of Turkish workers, after Turkey shot down one of its military aircraft last Tuesday. Turkey accused the aircraft of flying into its sovereign airspace, while Russia disputes that accounting of the incident.[/toggle]
5. The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to raise interest rates to this level.
[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”]-0.3% to -0.4%. The ECB has broken with economic orthodoxy and imposed negative interest rates in an attempt to force banks to put money into the private sector. The policy has been criticized, but the ECB views negative rates as the best way to combat deflation.[/toggle]
6. This state was the site of a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic over the weekend.
[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”]Colorado. The shooter reportedly had an anti-abortion agenda and killed three, while wounding nine.[/toggle]
7. Why is Nepal facing a nationwide fuel and medicine shortage?
[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”]Nepal is suffering from an Indian trade blockade that was imposed shortly after Nepal adopted a new constitution in September. India, Nepal’s biggest trading partner, has restricted the flow of transport trucks on the grounds that the constitution needs to better represent Nepal’s southern minorities. Many of these minorities have ethnic links to India.[/toggle]
8. Pope Francis recently visited this troubled African nation that is inthe midst of sectarian violence between Muslims and Christians.
[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”]The Central African Republic. Pope Francis urged reconciliation for a country that has seen growing sectarian violence since 2013. Christians and Muslims are currently living in increasingly segregated communities and tens of thousands of Muslims have fled to the northern part of the country.[/toggle]
9. What is the European Union (EU) giving Turkey for help in stemming the flow of migrants?
[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”]The EU is giving Turkey $3.2 billion in aid to care for 2.2 million Syrian refugees in the country. It is also allowing Turkish citizens to participate in the visa-free Schengen zone within a year if Turkey successfully tightens its borders. Finally, the EU has agreed to renew talks with Turkey about joining the organization.[/toggle]
10. Why does the Obama administration reportedly want to avoid agreeing to a legally binding treaty at the Paris climate talks?
[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”]The Obama administration wishes to avoid a legally binding treaty because that would require ratification from the Republican-controlled Senate. The last time a climate accord was submitted to the Senate was with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which the Senate unanimously rejected.[/toggle]