By Joseph Johns | Echo This round of primary elections in Indiana has heralded many unexpected "outsider wins" for candidates such as Bernie Sanders, who won the presidential primary election by a margin of 5.4 percent, or 34,000 votes, according to the New York Times. Donald Trump came out with his ...
Joseph Johns | Echo The General Assembly of North Carolina passed House Bill 2 on Wednesday, which will, according to the bill, "prohibit public agencies from providing accommodations for a sex other than the person's biological sex." This applies to single occupancy or multiple occupancy changing rooms, ...
By Joseph Johns | Echo On Monday night, for the first time since 2011, a bus bombing occurred in Jerusalem. The attack took place in an isolated area in the south of the city, according to The Daily Mail. Bus bombings often occurred during the Palestinian Intifada, or uprising, of the early 2000s, but ...
By Joseph Johns | Echo World governments are reeling after the revelation of what is known as the Panama Papers. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) reported that the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, set up shell companies, dormant accounts used to transfer money, for ...
By Joseph Johns | Echo Republican Presidential Candidates: Donald Trump "We're going to be cutting tremendous amounts of waste and fraud and abuse . . . but not services" - Trump in reference to a question of whether he would cut programs "I may cut Department of Education-Common Core is a very ...
By Joseph Johns | Echo Twenty-six state governors issued statements within the last week objecting to admitting Syrian refugees into their respective states after the Parisian attacks last Wednesday. The attacks, concurrent with an ISIS video in which the terrorist group threatened to attack Washington, ...
By Joseph Johns | Echo An earthquake in northeastern Afghanistan killed more than 260 people on Monday Oct. 26, according to a report by the BBC. The New York Times reports that this earthquake added another layer to Afghani citizens' misery, adding to the constant violence between the Taliban, various ...
By Joseph Johns|Echo In a speech before the United Nations Peacekeeping Summit on Sept. 28, 2015, President Barack Obama addressed multiple issues faced by the United Nations (U.N.) in the coming years, such as unstable governments in many States and the difficulty of the U.N. manning a standing Peacekeeping ...
By Joseph Johns | Echo The Iraqi Joint Operations Command has promised the country will "help and cooperate in collecting information about the terrorist group (ISIS), according to Al-Jazeera.The Iraqi military will be coordinating with the governments of Syria, Iran and Russia in fighting against ISIS. ...
Joseph Johns | Echo Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is awaiting the amendment of the country's Constitution later this week. The controversial bill would allow Japan's Self-Defense Force (SDF) personnel to play a greater military role overseas-something it has eschewed since the end of World War ...
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