Saturday, July 4, 2015

Current Events 4 July 2015

The following items have been in the news in the past few weeks.

 - The US Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act and ruled to make gay marriage legal in all fifty states.

 - Two prisoners who escaped from a prison in Upstate New York were apprehended (one was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents). 

 - The cold-blooded murder of nine people in a Black church in Columbia, South Carolina by a White Supremicist started a movement calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from state government buildings in some Southern states. Many retailers voluntarily stopped selling the flags.

 - A series of deadly, ISIS-sponsored terror attacks has occurred in France, Kuwait, Tunisia, and Egypt.

 - Financial markets tumbled after Greece defaulted on its loan from the International Monetary Fund.






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