Beginning June 2018, Saudi women can drive
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has decreed that women will be allowed to drive a motor vehicle, beginning next summer.
History
Word of the day: ‘dotard’
US and N. Korea are engaged in a war of words that we hope will not escalate into a nuclear threat. The words are becoming personal, though.
Students’ pic goes viral from Trump rally
A rally led by Pres Trump in Phoenix last month brought instant online fame to 3 students from a Gilbert, AZ, h.s. Also hateful comments.
Students mark 60 years of integration in Little Rock
Later this month, students in Little Rock and the surrounding area will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the integration of Central H.S.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders comes to Naperville
US Sen Bernie Sanders of Vt. came to IL to talk to students about the political revolution he started when he ran for president in 2016.
6th nuclear test rumbles out from North Korea
Tremors prove that North Korea detonated a thermonuclear device 5 or 6x stronger than what the US dropped on Japan in WW II.
In Portland, the day after & the day before
Anti-white supremacy marchers dotted the nation yesterday, including here in Portland, Ore. Trump tweeted something about healing.
Some social studies looks like fiction under Trump
What should teachers do about questions they are sure to receive about the violence in Charlottesville last weekend?
U.Va. and Charlottesville, Va., in state of emergency
A man was killed and dozens injured in white supremacy protests today near the U. of Va. State of emergency.
Trump suggests military action in Venezuela
The US has, once again, rattled its sabre, this time at Venezuela, a struggling dictatorship in South America that's getting help from Russian oil.