Cnn News and continueing blog disscusions.1.Update on the candidates running for President in 2012/Iowa Straw Poll2. South Sudan-Civil wars for almost 50 years and South Sudan breaks away from Sudan, by a vote for independence.Most is the oil is in the South and thats is one reason why the North wanted control of the South. THe South is in better shape to be its own country while the North isnt. 98% of people who voted were for independence.3. Libya-The country is controlled by Gadafi who is in hiding right now. People are protesting to have more freedom(s).Gadafi had his army start shooting random/innocent people to maintaincontrol.The U.S is flying over cities who are being hit by Gadafi's army.4. US Supreme Court and videogames-The US Supreme Court wanted to banned the sale of mature video games under 17 years. California passed a law that stores could not sell mature video games to people under age. The US Supreme Court ruled in-favor of the video-games.5. New York and gay marriage-they passed a bill for people to have gay marriges. the voting was pretty close. They have done this several years ago.6. Drawdown in Afghanistan-Obama said that 10,000 troops will be coming home! 2014 is when all troops should be coming home. When we pull our troops out we are going to let our allias fight for them selves, because we have trained them and we need to get out.7. Al-Zawahri and al-Qaeda- Osama bin ladin died last year in 2010 and he was the leader. Now Al-Zawahri is now the leader for al-Qaeda.8. US debt ceiling crisis-problem and solution-The problem of the debt ceiling crisis is that we are spending more money then the U.S has.Every couple years the government keeps raising the debt ceiling. The solution for this is that they raise the debt again!9. NFL lockout-problem and solution-The owners didnt like the current deal between them and the players. The players wanted more money and the owners wanted to keep the money.10. US/French Embassies attacked in Syria11. Famine in Somalia-tens of thousands people have died because of the famine. This is the 2nd worst drought in Somalia in like 50 years.For 20 years there has not been government in Somalia.The transitional government is trying to get their towns back from the terrioust in control12. Norway incident-Around 80 people/teenagers died in shooting. a bomb also went off in front of exectutive building. 8 people died in the bombing.13. Women's World Cup-look at history of Women's World Cup and resultsStates and capitals test has been moved to next wednesday!
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