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A quiet morning was disrupted when a meteor crashed to Earth’s surface in Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday, Feb. 15 at 9:20 a.m. The meteor fragments hurt 1,200 people, but left 46 in critical condition, according to BBC World News. Officials say that there was one large meteor that entered Earth’s atmosphere and fragmented, during…

The blizzard that took over the northeast is just about over, aside from the snow keeping residents of some cities indoors. According to CNN, freezing temperatures kept the snow from melting. In Connecticut, 40 inches fell in the city of Hamden. Heavy snowfall and strong winds blasted through northeastern cities. The blizzard has also left…

Chuck Hagel and John Brennan both dealt with tough senators and heavy questioning during their respective confirmation hearings. Defense Secretary-designate Hagel was questioned repeatedly in his eight-hour hearing on Jan. 31 about the Iraq war, Iran and Israel. According to a number of sources, including current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Hagel seemed unprepared when addressing…

I have a confession to make. Despite the fact that the election just occurred a few months ago, and President Obama was re-inaugurated several weeks ago, I am already looking ahead to the 2016 presidential election.
I’m not alone in this, though. Political analysts are already contemplating several likely contenders around, including former Secretary of…

On Jan. 30, Israeli fighter-bombers attacked and destroyed a Syrian military convoy near the Lebanese border, a bold move that stoked fears of “spillover” regional conflict stemming from Syria’s ongoing civil war. U.S. authorities speaking under the condition of anonymity confirmed the strike to reporters later that day, although the Israeli government would not provide…

Edward “Ed” Koch, former three-term mayor of New York City, passed away at New York-Presbyterian Hospital at approximately 2 a.m., on Friday, Feb. 1, at the age of 88.
Koch was best remembered for his time as mayor during one the most turbulent times in the city’s history, as well as being credited with restoring…

On Thursday, Jan. 31, an explosion occurred through the streets of central Mexico City, in the headquarters of the oil company PEMEX. BBC World News has reported 33 people dead and 121 injured in the sudden explosion, which came without warning or motive. Rescuers searched all night for survivors in the rubble of the building…

A suicide bomber attacked the United States Embassy in Ankara, Turkey on Friday, Feb. 1, and succeeded in killing a guard and wounding various passersby in the process.   The bomber, Ecevit Sanli, detonated his explosives, constructed with over 13 pounds of TNT, enough to take down a two-story building, at the checkpoint immediately outside the…

In a landmark decision announced Thursday, Jan. 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta signed a memo lifting the military’s previous 1994 ban on women serving in combat. The Pentagon’s 1994 rule excluded women from units whose primary mission is to participate in direct combat on the ground.  This memo does not address which military occupation…

Republicans in Virginia have now created a proposal that could change how the commonwealth allocates its 13 electoral votes, according to CNN. Under this proposal, electoral votes would become divvied up with congressional districts that have won. During President Barack Obama’s re-election, the president won all 13 votes in Virginia even though his opponent, Mitt…

Following a four-day long hostage crisis that ended Jan. 19 in Algeria, there are rising concerns over an increase of terrorist activity coming out of North Africa. The situation started when a group of Islamist extremists from Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, Canada, Egypt and Mauritania struck a natural gas plant near the Libyan border with…

The Carroll News interviewed Lior Yafe, the Israel fellow from the Cleveland Hillel Foundation, on Wednesday, Dec. 12. In the interview, Yafe responded to a CN interview with Iyad Burnat printed in its Dec. 6 issue.
Yafe, 25, began his two-year stay in Cleveland as Israel fellow in September. According to the Cleveland Jewish News,…

It has been over a month since Adam Lanza, armed with an assault rifle and other weapons, walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and killed 27 students and faculty members. The shooting is now considered the second-deadliest school shooting in the United States, following the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007.
Since the…

In the wake of the tragedy of Sandy Hook Elementary School, the nation is seeing a push for gun control. President Barack Obama has outlined several new proposals to add and to change America’s gun laws.
Among the proposals are changes such as background checks at gun shows and a federal ban on the manufacturing…

The fatal hostage situation taking place in a small town in southeast Algeria came to an end on Saturday after four days of turmoil. The town of In Amenas, Algeria, located near the border of Libya, is home to a gas installation owned by BP and Algerian and Norwegian oil companies. This natural gas facility…

On Friday, Jan. 18 the U.S. House of Representatives agreed to vote on raising the country’s debt ceiling for another three months. This plan is meant to give Congress the chance to negotiate a more viable budget plan, according to The New York Times. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the debt ceiling is…

Iyad Burnat hails from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, located just west of Ramallah. He is a member of what he calls a grassroots peace movement known as the Bil’in Popular Committee.
The organization was formed around 2004 and he said it has continued to grow in support since.
On Monday, Dec. 3, Burnat spoke…

On Election Day Tuesday, citizens across the nation were watching history in the making. Not only did voters’ ballots have the candidates nominated for each political party, but in certain states and cities, issues and amendments were voted upon. Colorado and Washington passed ballot action legalizing the sale and possession of marijuana. This means the…

Iran is beginning to fund aid projects for Afghanistan. These projects are expected to fill the void left by the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan. Iran is also helping to expand intelligence networks across Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is very important to Iran’s capital city of Tehran and the means for the capital city to come out of…