Barack Obama Gives Moving Final Speech as President
- Politics, World Position
- January 11, 2017
NASA has just held a press conference that clarified their earlier announcement but left us with more questions than we started with. NASA announced that they have discovered seven planets that are close in size to Earth only 40 light years away. This is the first time we’ve been able to discover this many potentially
READ MORESoon to be former President Barack Obama gave his farewell address Tuesday night. That speech was the last speech Obama will give as president as he will leave office in 9 days to make way for President-Elect Donald Trump. In his farewell address, he was insistent that he wants a smooth transition from his administration
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READ MOREPolish lawmakers were forced to reject legislature that if passed would have ensured an almost total ban of abortion in Poland. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the streets to voice their dissatisfaction. The anti-abortion campaign group that originally proposed the legislature was outraged when the Law and Justice party (PIS) called an emergency
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