The following are current news stories at the several recommended sites on your Current Events Article Review assignment. These may or may not apply to the current unit being studied in class, but will serve as a good base point. Be aware that only the top five news stories from each source are displayed – many more things are currently happening in the world right now!
New York Times
- Letter 73: How Scott Morrison’s Boat Trophy Burst Into Public View — and Why It Matters September 19, 2018A knickknack adorning the Australian prime minister’s office wasn’t the only expression of his pride in a strict policy on accepting migrants by boat.DAMIEN CAVE
- Poland, Making a Play for a U.S. Military Base, Offers to Call It Fort Trump September 19, 2018President Andrzej Duda offered to host the structure as a bulwark against Russia. President Trump said Warsaw would have to pay billions to use his name.ALAN COWELL
- A Year After a Quake Crumbled a Mexico School, Grieving Parents Seek Justice September 19, 2018Twenty-six students and teachers died at the Enrique Rébsamen School during an earthquake. An investigation suggests negligence was partly to blame.MARINA FRANCO and DANIEL MELCHOR
- Professor in Yoga Ball Murder Trial Faces Life in Prison September 19, 2018In a case with bizarre details and unusual family dynamics, Dr. Khaw Kim-sun was found guilty of killing his wife and 16-year-old daughter with carbon monoxide.TIFFANY MAY
- State of the Art: Why Jeff Bezos Should Push for Nobody to Get as Rich as Jeff Bezos September 19, 2018Here’s what the Amazon founder’s vast fortune tells us about the economic concentration of the tech industry — and how he might help unravel that for the world.FARHAD MANJOO
The Guardian
- Peter Dutton under pressure after inquiry finding that he misled parliament – politics live September 19, 2018The Greens and Labor plan to move a no confidence motion against the minister. All the day’s events, live 12.52am BST The strawberry laws are being introduced to the House. After Scott Morrison implored people to make a pavlova and top it with strawberries, and Scott Buchholz took around strawberries and yoghurt (strangely, the Guardian office was missed in […]Amy Remeikis
- Cecilia Haddad murder: former Brazilian boyfriend confessed to killing, court hears September 19, 2018Mario Marcelo Santoro appears in court in Rio de Janeiro over the death of 38-year-old, whose body was found in Sydney’s Lane Cover RiverThe suspected killer of Cecilia Haddad has appeared in court for a pretrial hearing in Rio de Janeiro, where an investigator testified that the accused had confessed during informal talks with police while in custody.Mario […]Anna Jean Kaiser in Rio de Janeiro
- Danske bank chief resigns over €200bn money-laundering scandal September 19, 2018Thomas Borgen admits most of £180bn that passed through Estonian branch was fraudulentThe boss of Denmark’s biggest bank has resigned after admitting that the vast majority of €200bn (£178bn) flowing through its Estonian branch was money-laundered cash flowing illegally out of Russia, the UK and the British Virgin Islands.“It is clear that Danske Bank has fa […]Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent
- English Heritage seeks Stonehenge holiday snaps for digital album September 19, 2018Charity shows ‘then and now’ visitors’ photos to celebrate 100 years after Wiltshire’s pre-historic site passed to nationEnglish Heritage is encouraging visitors to share their holiday snaps of trips to Stonehenge – the older the better – to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of the monument belonging to the nation.The charity is aiming to create a digital […]Steven Morris
- Republicans refuse to delay Kavanaugh hearing as Trump defends nominee September 19, 2018Chuck Grassley maintained the hearing would take place Monday morning after Ford’s lawyers demanded an FBI investigationSenate Republicans are refusing to delay a high-stakes public hearing with supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who accused him of sexual assault, as Donald Trump offered a vigorous defense of his e […]Lauren Gambino in Washington
National Public Radio
- Yogurt May Not Be So Healthy If It's Pumped Full Of Sugar September 19, 2018A study of some 900 yogurts sold in supermarkets in the U.K. found a shocking amount of sugar is hiding in this so-called healthy food, particularly in organic yogurts.Rachel Cohen
- A Year After Deadly Mexico Quake, Corruption, Negligence And Forgotten Victims Remain September 19, 2018A massive earthquake in Mexico killed hundreds and displaced thousands a year ago today. A new report says corruption is behind much of the destruction.James Fredrick
- Some North Koreans Puzzled By U.S. Call For Denuclearization September 19, 2018A summit between the North and South Korean leaders seemed to move the peninsula closer to denuclearization. While in North Korea, NPR asked citizens their thoughts on giving up nuclear weapons.Mary Louise Kelly
- India Makes Instant Divorce A Criminal Offense September 19, 2018Muslim men could terminate their marriages by repeating "talaq," Arabic for "divorce," three times. The practice continued despite a Supreme Court rule outlawing it.Sasha Ingber
- DNA Test Helps Conservationists Track Down Ivory Smugglers September 19, 2018The cartels that run the ivory trade try to cover their tracks — among other things, they smuggle tusks from the same elephant separately. But DNA testing can help find patterns.Christopher Joyce
Al Jazeera
- Son's reaction to sewer cleaner's death sparks outrage in India September 19, 2018Twitter users react with anger and compassion after death of another 'manual scavenger', raising $70,000 for his family.
- Florence: Death toll climbs to 36 as women in sheriff's van drown September 19, 2018Police say mental heath patients were being transported to another centre when floodwaters swept van carrying them away.
- Philippines landslide: 'At least he was in one piece' September 19, 2018Death toll from landslide caused by Typhoon Mangkhut rises to 81, three days after it battered northern Luzon island.
- Maldives voters fear fraud as high-stakes election looms September 19, 2018Sunday's poll will neither be free nor fair with President Abdulla Yameen's ally administering the vote, say critics.
- Is Donald Trump turning national security into a business? September 19, 2018The US president seems willing to sell its military services after his meeting with Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda.
The Atlantic
- Studying Greenland’s Ice to Understand Climate Change September 19, 2018Lucas Jackson, a photographer with Reuters, recently joined a team of scientists studying Greenland’s ice sheet and glaciers.Alan Taylor
- A Five-Letter Adjective Is Shaking Up Politics in Eastern Europe September 19, 2018Macedonia is set to vote on a name change. The process is turning out to be surprisingly fraught—even drawing Russian interference.Yasmeen Serhan
- A Surprising Finding About Refugees in Europe Amid a Political Reckoning September 19, 2018A new Pew survey says a significant majority in several EU countries supports accepting more people fleeing violence.Krishnadev Calamur
- South Korea May Have Just Helped Break a Nuclear Impasse September 19, 2018As talks with Washington seemed to stall, Seoul created its own path with Pyongyang.Uri Friedman
- American Weirdness: Observations From an Expat September 18, 2018The disorientation of coming home and buying toothpasteRachel Donadio
The Economist
- California leads subnational efforts to curb climate change September 13, 2018SUPPOSE Britain’s prime minister ordered civil servants to make the world’s fifth-biggest economy fully carbon-neutral by 2045, and thereafter to extract more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than it emits. In a sense that is what happened on September 10th, when Governor Jerry Brown of California—whose economy last year overtook Britain’s—inked an execu […]
- One solution to a congested city is to build a new one September 6, 2018SOME cities are so shaped that traffic jams seem inevitable. Manila, in the Philippines, is scrunched between a bay in the west and a lagoon in the east. A car driving through the middle of the city is like a grain of sand seeping slowly past the neck of an hourglass. Dakar, in Senegal, is surrounded on three sides by the Atlantic Ocean, forcing suburban com […]
- People say they hate traffic jams, but are oddly tolerant of them September 6, 2018“WHERE would you rather be?” asks a bumper sticker on the back of a rickety-looking Toyota Corolla. It is an advertisement for a hotel—and a question that people might well ask themselves. The words on the sticker are so small that they could be read only by a driver a few feet behind the Corolla while both cars were motionless. In Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest c […]
- Loneliness is a serious public-health problem August 30, 2018LONDON, says Tony Dennis, a 62-year-old security guard, is a city of “sociable loners”. Residents want to get to know each other but have few ways to do so. Tonight, however, is different. Mr Dennis and a few dozen other locals are jousting at a monthly quiz put on by the Cares Family, a charity dedicated to curbing loneliness. The competitors are a delibera […]
- Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost August 23, 2018“AIR-CONDITIONING cannot be a grand success in the [American] South for the reason that the honest natives of the region recognise the natural summer heat as a welcome ally, in that it makes the inside of houses and offices agreeably uninviting.” In the annals of mistaken predictions, this one—made in 1935 by Clarence Cason, author of “90° in the Shade”—meri […]