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1. This major American city rejected an equal rights initiative that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.
[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”]Houston. Despite having a lesbian mayor, the fourth-largest city in the natin overwhelmingly rejected the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO). Conservatives argued that the legislation would permit transgender women into women’s restrooms, something that supporters of the initiative said was ridiculous. 60% of Houston’s residents vowed against the ordinance.[/toggle]
2. After Tuesday’s elections, how many governorships does the Republican Party control?
[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”]Thirty-one. The Republican Party retained the Mississippi governorship on Tuesday and then captured Kentucky from Democrats, reducing the Democrats to control of just seventeen states. Louisiana, which will hold its runoff at the end of this month, is projected to elect a Democrat, thereby flipping that office.[/toggle]
3. What is a “nonperson” in China?
[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”]A “nonperson” is a second or third child that was born in violation to China’s now-defunct “one child policy” over the past forty years. The Christian Science Monitor reports that thirteen million Chinese have this designation, which denies them legal papers and civil rights.[/toggle]
4. Why was Matt Bevin’s victory in the Kentucky gubernatorial election last week so significant?
[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”]Bevin became just the second Republican to win Kentucky’s gubernatoral election since 1971. The last Republican governor elected in that time period was Ernie Fletcher, who captured the governor’s mansion in 2003. Bevin outperformed state polls, which put him 5-6% behind his Democratic opponent Jack Conway on the day of the election.[/toggle]
5. Why is the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia suing Rolling Stone Magazine?
[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 fraternity is suing Rolling Stone for $25 million due to the fact that its report about a sexual assault that took place on campus in 2012 was later debunked. The story created protests at the institution, but did not hold up under intense media scrutiny. The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism later said that Rolling Stone failed to fact check the story before publishing it.[/toggle]
6. This global body rejected membership for Kosovo earlier this week.
[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”]UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency. Kosovo failed to secure the support of two-thirds of the agency’s members, with fifty nations voting against its membership and twenty-two abstaining. Russia and Serbia have opposed Kosovo joining international institutions, disputing the legitimacy of its declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008.[/toggle]
7. Preliminary reports say that this likely brought down Metrojet Flight 9268 over the Sinai Peninsula last week.
[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”]An explosion caused by a bomb. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack and if it is proven that they did carry the attack out it would mark one of the most shocking terror attacks in decades. The explosion that brought down Metrojet Flight 9268 killed 224 people.[/toggle]
8. What is the name of Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party in Myanmar?
[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 National League for Democracy (NLD). Myanmar held democratic elections on Sunday and the NLD appears headed for a victory in the poll, with early results giving it 90% of the lower house of parliament. The NLD won elections in 1990, but the nation’s military annulled that result and arrested many of its leaders, including Suu Kyi.[/toggle]
9. Catalonia hopes to secede from Spain within how many months?
[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”]18 months. Catalonia’s regional assembly passed a resolution on Monday that called for secession. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said that he would seek to have that motion invalidated by the nation’s Constitutional Court. The independence drive is a result of pro-independence parties winning a majority in the Catalan assembly back in September.[/toggle]
10. Why did Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri, resign yesterday?
[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”]Wolfe resigned in the face of accusations that he “enabled a system of racism” at the university. African-American students say that Wolfe failed to handle incidents of racism that have harmed the climate of the institution. The university’s football players pledged over the weekend to boycott games until he stepped down and the university’s faculty staged a walkout on Monday.[/toggle]