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Thursday, March 17, 2016
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Man hacks 217 banks
Algerian hacker Bendelladj Hamza, hacked into 217
banks and was able to steal 10 of millions of US dollars. He has shared the money with several non-governmental organizations in Africa, but also Palestinian
NGO to whom he has donated more than $ 280 million.
N. Korea holds student hostage
North Korea has detained an American tourist for committing an unspecified crime, the third U.S. citizen being held there. The state Korean Central News Agency
said authorities were investigating him for committing
acts inconsistent with the purpose of a tourist visit.
Cease-fire in Syria
Who’s in the lead?
NOBEL MICHAEL
A cease-fire brokered by the US and Russia has come
into effect across Syria, but the Islamic State group and
al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, are excluded. The cease-fire aims at reducing violence in Syria
with the hope of bringing back representatives of the
Syrian government and the opposition to the negotiating table in Geneva for talks on a political transition
Water crisis in India
New Delhi’s current water crisis won’t be its last.
India’s capital was thrown into disarray as 10 million of
its citizens had their access to running water cut. Taps
and pipes ran completely dry for more than 24 hours
as those who could afford it rushed to purchase bottled
water. Others waited to fill their buckets from the trucks
that rushed water to the impacted neighborhoods.
China plans launch to Mars
China is planning to land a rover on Mars by 2020 and
bring back samples from the Red Planet a decade later,
according to a top scientist with the country’s Lunar
Exploration Program. The central goal of the mission
is to explore extraterrestrial activity and research the
planet’s environment, Ouyang explained.
Republican Donald Trump
Democrat Hillary Clinton
The Gramblinite
On March 15, Donald
Trump and Hillary Clinton
swept the polls, carrying all
but one of the states included
on Super Tuesday. They both
won the votes for Florida, Illinois, Montana and North
Carolina. Republican candidate Marco Rubio finally
dropped out of the race after
losing Florida, his own state,
to Trump.
Bernie Sanders continues
to struggle to catch up to
Clinton’s momentum, which
might leave her as the democratic nominee in this election.
As primary elections continue, Trump leads the Republican Party and Clinton leads
the Democratic Party. Tensions rise as the second Super
Tuesday arrives. In the United
States, Super Tuesday, in general, refers informally to one
or more Tuesdays early in a
United States presidential primary season when the greatest number of states holds
primary elections.
The Super Tuesday is in
either February or March of
a presidential election year.
In 2016, the first Super Tuesdays were held on March 1
and March 15. More delegates
to United States presidential
nominating conventions can
be won on Super Tuesday
than on any other single day
of the primary calendar.
On March 1, Trump
gained the most success in the
GOP by winning seven states
including Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Massachusetts Ten-
the votes for Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and his
home state, Vermont.
On March 5, the candidates
got a chance to win votes at
the Louisiana Caucus. A Caucus is a meeting of the legislative body, who are members
of a particular political party,
to select candidates or decide
policy. This allows candidates
nessee, Vermont, and Virginia. While Cruz took the votes
for Alaska, Oklahoma and his
home state, Texas, of course.
Cruz was only able to take the
votes for Minnesota.
On the democratic side
Clinton swept Sanders by also
winning seven states including
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia,
Massachusetts,
Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia. Bernie
Sanders was only able to take
to take win an overall vote
for a particular state. Donald
Trump won the most votes
with 41.4 percentage for the
republicans. Terry Cruz came
second with a 37.8 percent in
votes leaving Marco Rubio
with 11.2 percent in votes.
“Trump is not scared to
say what they want to say.
They don’t mind making
America great. They’re talking
about building a wall, not only
a wall for immigrant, but a
wall for separation of culture.
If we keep letting people like
trump in we’ll be right back to
segregation,” said a city official and public administration
graduate student attending
Grambling.
“First of all since September 11, people have wanted
purebred Americans, so
some voters are feeding into
Trumps “ALL American”
brand. I don’t feel like his candidacy will last for a long time.
I think when we come to the
finals he is going to drop out.
We have to push for Hillary
because Bernie is not going to
beat Trump.”
On the Democratic side
Hillary Clinton stayed in the
lead gaining 71.1 percent in
votes from Louisiana, while
Bernie Sanders was only able
to obtain 23.2 percent on
votes.
“If Bernie was five years
younger, Hillary would not
be the potential primary candidate,” said the grad student.
“And we’re not too sure
about a universal health care
law, and we don’t have to pay
for school, and taxes being
lowered, that much change
scares us.”
Flint, Michigan, where the problem began
STAFF REPORT
The population of Flint,
Michigan, which is roughly
99,000 individuals, have been
told not to use unfiltered tap
water after a switch of the
city’s municipal water source
to the Flint River exposed
them to high levels of lead.
Flint families use 151 bottles
of water per day.
The Environmental Protection Agency said the problem
was exacerbated by the local
government’s resistance to
warnings. Michigan Gov. Rick
Snyder has called the debacle a
failure at every level of government and has vowed to help