Central Jakarta buildings

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May 9, 2019 btwuser 0

A New Capital for Indonesia? Quick: what’s the capital of Indonesia? If you answered Jakarta, you’re correct . . . though maybe not for long. […]

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April 30, 2019 btwuser 0

Hundreds Killed in Sri Lanka Bombing On Easter Sunday, 253 people–including at least 45 children, 42 foreign nationals, and three police officers–were killed in a […]

Midwest flooding

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March 27, 2019 btwuser 0

Uhlenbeck Wins World’s Greatest Math Prize Known as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics,” the Abel Prize is the world’s most prestigious award in this field. […]

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March 6, 2019 btwuser 0

Cohen Takes on Trump On February 27, Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, gave shocking testimony before Congress, accusing the president of a series of lies […]

Damaged Coney Island home

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February 27, 2019 btwuser 0

FEMA Fraud Do you remember Hurricane Sandy? It was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 hurricane season. At that time, it was […]

Southern right whale calf, Nuevo Gulf, Valdes Peninsula.

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January 29, 2019 btwuser 0

Crisis in Venezuela United States citizens may consider elections to be stressful and sometimes controversial events. But Venezuela is facing a potentially violent crisis in […]

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January 24, 2019 btwuser 0

Barr Faces Senate Hearing Donald Trump has chosen a replacement for Jeff Sessions, who resigned from his job as attorney general in November. His pick […]

Side view of the border fence separating the United States and Mexico from Nogales, Arizona

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January 15, 2019 btwuser 0

Border Security: A National Emergency? The federal government shutdown is now the longest in our nation’s history. The government has shut down because the president is […]

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Warren 2020?

January 10, 2019 btwuser 0

This week’s story update on the Election Central Web site discusses Senator Elizabeth Warren’s early entry into the upcoming presidential election contest. With the 2018 […]