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Friday, March 15, 2019
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School climate strikes: Why kids around the world plan to skip school on March 15
Young people around the world are not interested in excuses when it comes to dealing with climate change.
Every year of their lives has been one of the warmest recorded. Extreme weather events, including floods, wildfires and heat waves, are becoming the new norm. Many believe that, if nothing is done to stop global warming, their generation will be left to deal with catastrophic consequences.
That's why, on March 15, tens of thousands of students worldwide will be cutting class and taking to the streets to demand that elected officials act.
Here's what you need to know about their movement.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
The FBI’s college admissions fraud case against Felicity Huffman and many more, explained
Fifty people, including Full House actress Lori Laughlin and Oscar-winning actress Felicity Huffman, are facing federal fraud charges after an FBI investigation into an elaborate scheme to get their children into elite universities.
The Department of Justice, which announced the charges Tuesday, says Laughlin, Huffman, and dozens of others allegedly paid millions of dollars in bribes to get their children admitted to Yale, Stanford, and other schools.
The plot allegedly involved cheating on standardized testing exams like the ACT and having the children of wealthy parents falsely designated as athletes — even paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to make coaches claim the children were being recruited to play sports for their schools.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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