James Comey’s Testimony
Just today, former FBI director James Comey testified in front of congress. The testimony started at 10:00 A.M. just weeks ago, Comey had been fired by president Donald Trump quite randomly, thus drawing media attention, and depriving Comey of his position as FBI director. A little while after the 2016 presidential election rumors came out that Russia had been meddling in the elections, basically implying that they had been rigged. Just also after the elections, A trump administration investigation was launched with Comey at head . And after a while at the head of the investigation, he was fired by Trump. This action by trump, caused a lot of controversy about the fact that trump could perhaps be hiding something that he doesn't want the rest of america to know. And now, finally getting a sort of revenge, Comey testified in front of Congress. He his brief opening statements were “lies, plain and simple.” he had been referring to when trump had said, the FBI had was in disarray, and had lost faith in Comey. The testimony is still underway at this moment. 6/8/2017 4:23 P.M. By Eric Hu
Cape Town Drought
Due to severe climate change and overpopulation, the community in Cape Town is suffering with drought and water shortage. Drought is bad news to Cape Town because of extreme heat. You can help by conserving water and help make a change in climate change.
By Andrew Li
Chinese Man Gets Kicked Off
United Airlines Flight
By Reporter Andrew Li
In order to fit four crew members on an United flight, the United employees dragged off David Dao. David Dao was a doctor who was on a flight from Chicago to Louisville. Three passengers voluntarily gave up their seats, but David Dao didn´t. Because of that, United sent an officer to drag David Dao. David Dao fought back but eventually got a concussion and got dragged off the flight. A few people on board took videos of it. The videos show that David Dao was dazed, had a broken and bloody nose, shirt was halfway off and that his glasses were sliding off.
Later the incident went to court and the United CEO apologized and gave David Dao more than a million dollars. The incident led to outrage against United Airlines. Many feared to go on United Airlines. Many thought that United Airlines chose David Dao on purpose because he was Chinese.
Information From, CNN, AZfamily.com, New York Times, and David Wu
AMD Ryzen, the Big Tech Battle of 2017?
A while back AMD and Intel were having a huge competition over the share of the market and both AMD and Intel were pushing out revolutionary new products that just kept getting faster and faster. For a long time it looked like AMD was going to win, but then Intell made a huge push and AMD sank to the bottom of the barrel. They have just bean sitting there for a long time and with no competition. Intel has been only pushing out tiny improvements at a time and milking these for infinity, but now AMD is pushing back with their new AMD Ryzen line of products and while they were developing their products, they were advertising faster speeds, equal amount of cores, and half the prices. And the best part? They kept to their claims and actually delivered their product with the advertised specs! And the public can by them! The only questions are: can AMD keep up and how will Intel react. As a final note, AMD will also soon be releasing their Ryzen 5 and 3 series processors. So keep updated as there will surely be an article on that soon.
by Henry
North Korea Performs a Failed Missile Launch.
On Wednesday, March 22nd, the U.S claimed that North Korea attempted to launch a missile, but failed right upon launch. The missile was launched near Kalma.
Both America and South Korea says this happened.
No one exactly knows what type of missile North Korea used, but the launch happened after North Korea claimed they had tested a new rocket engine. North Korea described this as a ¨great leap forward¨ for their missile program.
As always, in every retaliation of a North Korean activities, the U.S and South Korea both performed a large military training program known as the ¨Foal Eagle¨ exercise. The Foal Eagle training will last from March 1st to April 30.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are currently trying to negotiate between North Korea and South Korea/ U.S by asking for South Korea and U.S to halt the exercise and stopping the North Korean nuclear program. But with tensions so high, the chances of negotiation is slim.
This isn't the first time North Korea launched missiles this month. On March 6, North Korea launched 4 intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Japan, sparking panic. Luckily, the missiles landed right off the Japanese coast. North Korea seems to be speeding up their missiles program by testing more and more missiles. President Donald Trump describes North Korea as ¨greatest intermediate threat to the United States.¨
David Wu, Acton MA. March 23, 2017.
Unclassified Atomic Bomb tests
The U.S government has recently released some footage of Atomic Bomb tests to the public. From 1945 to 1962, the U.S performed 210 bomb nuclear bomb tests in the atmosphere, to counter the growing Soviet threat. These footages will show the pure terror and destruction of these weapons.
David Wu, Acton MA
A photo of the Baker Bomb, detonated in 1946 at Bikini Atoll.
The Crisis In The South China Sea
Before president Donald J Trump became president, China, the US and many other countries in the south pacific have had lots of tensions for who controls what part of the South China Sea. Now the new president Donald J Trump won't back down. Trump says that the Chinese shouldn't be able to access the South China Sea. Starting in 2014, the Chinese military has been constructing seven artificial islands on top of reefs. The Chinese say that they did not put any military units on the islands, but a camera showed that the Chinese installed four anti-aircraft guns. Another part that contributed to the crisis in the South China Sea is that ever since Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte became president, the Philippians had major changes including betraying the US and allying with the People's Republic of China. This will hopefully not lead to conflict in the South China Sea.
By Andrew Li
Some of this information was found on TIME
The Women's March
On January 21st, across the US lots of women plus some men were protesting against the new president: Donald J Trump. Right after Trump became president, Teresa Shook made a Facebook account and shared it with her friends. The Facebook account was made to plan the march to counter Trump. Quickly thousands of women signed up for the march. They eventually made it global and eventually 680,000 people signed up on Facebook. Almost double that amount came to the march were people that wanted to fight for causes that were discriminated. There were some people that held speeches there. Pink hats were very popular during the march. Hundreds of companies supported and partnered with the Women's march. The protesters say that it wasn´t a march against Trump, but a march to protect their rights. Foreign countries had marches against Trump too. ¨ It was a very historical march,¨ said Graham White, a participant in the march in Boston Massachusetts and a friend of the reporter. This event has lead to many more protests against president Donald J. Trump of the United States of America.
By Andrew
TRUMP CONTINUES TO BAN TRAVEL FROM SEVEN COUNTRIES
This is David Wu, in Acton Massachusetts.
ON JANUARY 30th, new president Donald J Trump banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries: Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Iran. Trump has also banned refugees from entering the country. This ban has caused outrage across the country and in airports around the nation. “BAN TRUMP, NOT MUSLIMS!” reads one protest sign. Trump has forbidden travelers from these countries for 120 days. What happens next is still unclear.