Source: Curbed, ABC7, Chicago Tribune   Illinois could become the latest state in America to legalize marijuana as legislators consider a bid to make the drug recreationally legal. A flurry of last-minute proposals is set to move through the Illinois House of Representatives Friday, May 31. If the proposal passes, Illinois would become the 11th […]

Sources: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News reports from multiple outlets tracking back to a 6-month period suggest that retailers and investors may be too quick to attribute declining sales numbers to external factors. Consider the following news reports as evidence: In October of 2018, the Wall Street Journal suggested that it was all too common […]

Source: The Hill, Reuters UK  The European Union has agreed to appropriate 19 million euros to Iran to help offset the impact of sanctions imposed by the United States. The announcement is part of the bloc’s effort to support the nuclear agreement that United States President Donald Trump abandoned in May of 2018; it is part of a wider package of […]

Source: NBC   On the afternoon of Wednesday, June 20th, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on immigration in the Oval Office of the White House. He, along with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Vice President Mike Pence have received extreme pressure from members of both major American parties. The signed order […]

Primary Source: BBC News Last week, a Florida school shooting left 17 people—students, teachers, and administrators—dead. Since the horrific event, survivors of the shooting have taken up the fight for stricter legislation on gun control. On February 21nd, they boarded busses to Tallahassee, the Florida state capital, to attend and participate in a town hall […]

(Al Jazeera) The 23rd Winter Olympic Games kicked off in Pyeongchang on the evening of February 9th. The opening ceremony, titled “Peace in Motion,” was held in front of a 35,000-person crowd, which included spectators, athletes, and officials. The most notable detail from the ceremony, however, was not the pomp and circumstance; it was a […]