Current Event #1 (8/18 to 8/22) by David Loudermilk

2025-08-18 15:43:43 UTC

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161659_16 — 2025-08-18 15:46:34 UTC

President Trump wants to put an end to mail-in voting because it's not accurate, expensive, and controversial.

161836_9 — 2025-08-18 15:48:05 UTC

Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map - Written by Kayla Guo and Eleanor Klibanoff Aug. 3 2025

Texas democrats left Texas in order to prevent a vote to redraw the districts of Texas from happening, which deprived Texas's House of a quorum. (The number of lawmakers needed to function under the House's rules)

1617795 — 2025-08-18 15:54:18 UTC

Key issues omitted in revised US State Department human rights report

Author not mentioned

Published on Al Jazeera

August 12, 2025

The United States' 2025 human rights' report left out many major human rights' issues such as womens' rights', the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, LGBTQ+ rights', and racial equality issues, and human rights organization Amnesty International has noted the United States' failure to adequately report on human rights issues around the globe.

2025-08-18 15:54:46 UTC

President Trump says Zelensky can end war with Russia by doing two things, one of which is dropping the big to join NATO which was one of Russias claims for them in the beginning and accepting their illegal annexation of the region.

161448_17 — 2025-08-18 15:54:51 UTC

Texas house democrats are moving ahead on there own terms and reshaping of the congressional districts to counteract Texas and trying to do there own protest so they can with drawl from the national battle. this artical also shows how the Democrats where ready to do there two-week walk out. for an example in the artical this shows how they are protesting for there freedom of polecats and trying to fight for a more proper role of government vs a size and power of the central government.

1615686 — 2025-08-19 03:24:22 UTC

Striking Boeing defense workers turn to US Congress
No author mentioned
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Aug 13, 2025 Updated Aug 14, 2025
Over three thousand striking employees of The Boeing Company have brought their requests for support in having a better bargain with their union to congress in order to defend their rights.

163526_2 — 2025-08-19 03:39:12 UTC

By Emma Nicholson

Updated on: August 16, 2025

CBS News

The National Guard was sent to D.C. to take control over the city's police force, the national guard is not allowed to make arrests. This is Donald Trump's way to address crime in D.C.

161757_3 — 2025-08-19 14:33:07 UTC

Three Republican-Led states to send National Guard Troops to DC. - Kayla Epstein, August 19 2025.

Trump is going to send 1050 National guard troops to support his standing 800 to help end homelessness and clean up the city, this effort has reduced overall crime by 26%.

161683_7 — 2025-08-19 14:59:01 UTC

US Regulation on Artificial inteligence

Bloomberg Inteligence

August 8, 2025

This Article is mainly about Trumps signing the AI bill on July 23. It's the United States stance on AI regulation while seemingly taking the guardrails off and focusing on intelligence growth.

2025-08-19 15:12:38 UTC

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/18/texas-redistricting-maps-charts-analysis/

Texas Republicans’ redistricting map: How the GOP could increase its stronghold.

By: Carla Astudillo

Texas Tribune Source 8/18/25

Texas republicans newly drawn congressional maps are creating an intense battle at the Texas Capitol aiming to secure U.S. house seats.

161595_9 — 2025-08-20 16:26:48 UTC

This article discusses that Trump's Administration has down scaled the US government's report of human rights abuses, which the state department document reduces the criticism of US allies such as Israel and El Salvador. Included sections from previous years are removed entirely, reducing government issues of corruption.

161448_17 — 2025-08-22 02:25:37 UTC

This article shows how the articles of confferation tie into how trump or our presidents try change or or adjust the constitution and how this relate to what we are doing in class and how trump is trying to over rule this by refuring back to a redaw regarding the congressional map by using the social truth.