Current News 6 by Haleigh Goff https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm Summarize a news story related to POLITICS that has occurred this week. In your summary, include 3 facts about your story. Please link your source (where you got the story) to your post. See my example for details. Make sure your name is on your post. en-us 2019-09-18 12:21:43 UTC 2019-10-28 14:59:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.pics/1/image.webp?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f987.png Denisha Hair https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/385898356 - Barack Obama meets with a Swedish teenager about to promote environmental issues 
- The teenager Greta Thunberg is a young activist and has staged weekly sit ins outside Swedish parliament encouraging other young activist to begin their own protest 
- She has sailed across the Atlantic ocean to arrive in New York and she has traveled zero emissions sailboat to reduce the environmental impact ]]> 2019-09-18 12:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/385898356 Joyce Mull https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/385986998 2019-09-18 14:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/385986998 Kessie Williams https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/385995770 - Trump fired John Bolton over multiple disagreements, including Iran issue.
- Robert O'Brien, the U.S hostage negotiator is currently serving as Donald Trump's new national security advisor.
- A senior White House official argued that picking O'Brien shows that Trump "wants a consensus builder, not a showboater" in the rol]]> 2019-09-18 14:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/385995770 Alexia Nichols https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387131268 for 57 years a resettlement Church in Richmond, Virginia, served thousands of refugees from around the world and helped them get on their feet in the States after fleeing their home countries. Some who passed through moved on once they settled in and others came back to work at the office and assist fellow refugees. But in the following month they'll be closing the office down.

]]> 2019-09-20 12:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387131268 Kiara Fletcher https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387158823 - Bill de Blasio withdraws from the 2020 White House race.
- Trump made sarcastic tweets when he found out."Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years!”
-  Trump and his family have shown a special fondness in recent months for taking aim at de Blasio, the top public official in the president’s hometown.]]> 2019-09-20 13:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387158823 Joyce Mull https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387162241 - Bill de Blasio withdraws from the 2020 white house race 
- Trump made sarcastic tweets to Bill de Blasio  
- Bill de Blasio said that trump was a bully and bragged how he irritate trump and can get under his skin]]> 2019-09-20 13:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387162241 Michael Rose https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387217352 -environmentalists are being put on the spot for their incorrect eco-pocalyptic allegations
-the allegations are most commonly used only to further political agendas
-their time sensitive allegations have come and gone without any repercussions]]> 2019-09-20 14:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387217352 Yaasmin Barnett https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387244628 - Trump's whistleblower story 
- Trump is supposedly accused of getting assistants from Russia in his campaign against Hilary Clinton.
- There are many things that they know about the topic like Giuliani first denied he asked Ukraine to investigate Biden and his family. Then he admitted it.
- Although they know a lot its things they don't know as well like is there a transcript or recording of it and will it ever clear the air.
- Trump is supposed to speak with press today about the situation.]]> 2019-09-20 15:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387244628 Gabrielle Hubbard https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387244927 -Global climate strike: Young people worldwide are joining marches and climate strikes today.
-Organizers include student groups and teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. But it's not just young people: Labor and humanitarian groups, environmental organizations and company employees are also participating.
-As of Tuesday, 4,638 events were slated to take place in 139 countries, according to Thunberg.]]> 2019-09-20 15:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387244927 Mireya Watkins https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387245092 -Republicans and Democrats have long since separated themselves by ideology, leaving each more uniformly conservative or liberal than ever.
-The partisan polarization of America’s economy is rapidly catching up to the polarization of its voting patterns.
-The House Democratic majority, which represented 39% of the U.S. land area in 2008, now represents just 20%. The House Republican minority 80% of U.S. territory.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/economic-divide-in-the-us-is-becoming-as-stark-as-its-politics.html]]> 2019-09-20 15:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387245092 Ma'Kayla Whiteside https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387245936 - 2 week deadline to table a plan for replacing the Irish backstop 
-conservative party conference and it will remain to be seen whether the EU will stick to it ]]> 2019-09-20 15:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387245936 Trinity Jones https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387247898 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio drops out of 2020 presidential race
De Blasio sought to cast himself as the most progressive candidate in the large field of Democrats vying to take on President Donald Trump
de Blasio was unable to convince liberal Democrats that he was more qualified than Massachusetts Sen.
-https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/politics/bill-de-blasio-ends-presidential-campaign/index.html

]]> 2019-09-20 15:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387247898 Nakia Jackson https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387251876 2019-09-20 15:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387251876 Deonta Johnson https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387925607 Trump says he'll consider releasing transcript of call with Ukraine leader
-Trump pressured officials in Ukraine to undertake an investigation.
-On Sunday trump said he would consider releasing a transcript of a phone call he had with Ukraine’s leader.
- that Sunday morning Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the details of Trump’s call shouldn’t be made public.
]]> 2019-09-23 03:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/387925607 Nakia Jackson https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/388558283 - Nothing is happening to Donald Trump for his Ukrainian shenanigans
-Trump has no shame in anything he has done or been accused of and He's too good at deflecting investigators and reports
-The democrats are no longer trying to shame him because he can't be shamed they now want to vote him out]]> 2019-09-24 01:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/388558283 Me'Aunie Reed https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/388566178 -Prosecutors in New York rejects Trump's immunity claim in tax returns case
-Prosecutors challenged the federal court jurisdiction 
-New York sought a investigation into hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign.
-Trumps attorneys have argued that a sitting president can't be subjected as a criminal.]]> 2019-09-24 01:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/388566178 Derick Foster https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/389574303 -Ukrainian President says his conversations with Trump are private and confidential
-There are reports that Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden.
-Trump addressed the phone call and that he discussed Biden, but he has denied doing anything improper.]]> 2019-09-25 16:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/389574303 Dasean Bounds https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/390027283 A smart community whistle blower said whit house officials expressed alarm that they had saw President Donald Trump abuse his office for personal gain. This happened during a phone call with Ukrainian President.

]]> 2019-09-26 13:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/390027283 Jordan Booker https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/390218587 President trump abused his officials power to solicit of interference from ukranie in the upcoming 2020 election and the white house went to cover it up. Now the complaint is the center of controversy that has spurred democrats to launch a impeachment inquiry. ]]> 2019-09-26 18:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/390218587 JaMeera Gardner https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/390350159 -Colleagues remain largely defensive towards Trump after the house launched an impeachment inquiry
-Trump pressured Ukrainian to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter 
-Appropriations meeting prevented them reviewing the complaint]]> 2019-09-27 01:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/390350159 Londell Johnson https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/399089824 - Rep. Elijah Cummings Dead key figure in trumps investigation, dies at 68
-He died of complications concerning longstanding health changes.
-He oversaw a range of investigations into trump admissions from issues relating to the impeachment inquiry.
   ]]> 2019-10-17 15:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/399089824 Janeisha Hayes https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/403365602 -the daring special forces raid that killed the leader of ISIS cannot have come at a better moment for a crisis-haunted President Donald Trump
-he also said the White House did not inform key Democrats on the Hill
-Baghdad's death, which came when he set off a suicide vest when confronted with US troops in Syria]]> 2019-10-28 14:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hgoff1/gxminnxa44jm/wish/403365602