Month: June 2016

Brexit: United Kingdom Votes to Leave European Union

After months of speculation, the citizens of the United Kingdom voted in favor of leaving the European Union. With 100 percent of the 33.5 million votes votes now counted, the “leave” camp came out victorious, garnering 51.9 percent of the vote as opposed to the “remain” camp’s 48.1 percent. The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union […]

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Disaster in Orlando

At around 2 am Sunday morning, a man now identified as 29 year-old Omar Mateen burst into the popular gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida armed with an assault-style rifle and a handgun and began firing his weapons indiscriminately into the packed club. Mateen then proceeded to barricade himself inside the club, took thirty hostages, and threatened to […]

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