Stuff YOU Should Know
Ferguson: One Year Later August 9 marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri (a suburb of St. Louis). The incident sparked a riot in that city that lasted several days and flared race relations across the United States. To mark the […]
btw’s Year in Review: Arts, Life, and Sports
Humans don’t need entertainment and sports in order to survive, but our lives would hardly be as rich and meaningful without them. btw kept you abreast on the most popular movies, television, music, art and theater and brought you interesting human-interest stories from around the world. Sports heroes faced considerable scrutiny for their actions this […]
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U.S. Embassies Closed On August 4, nineteen U.S. embassies and consulates (sometimes called diplomatic missions) were closed in response to feared attacks by al Qaeda. Most of these government operations were located in the Middle East. U.S. Intelligence agencies such as the CIA intercepted conversations between two high-level al-Qaeda operatives plotting an attack. All but […]