By Sophia Rothman, age 14 In 2015, 21 young people filed a lawsuit (Juliana et al. v. United States) against the U.S. government. Their goal? To force the government to do more in the fight against climate change. These young plaintiffs are claiming that the...
Each fall, thousands of monarch butterflies travel from their summer homes in the northern U.S. and Canada to their winter homes in California and Mexico. But when scientists did the annual Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count in November 2018, they found that the...
As Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in 2019, they have elected Representative Nancy Pelosi of California as speaker, returning her the honor of being the first woman ever to hold the post, after eight years of Republicans controlling the House....
By Talia Haveshush, age 9and Indykids Staff The United Nations says the war in Yemen is the world’s worst man-made humanitarian disaster. The political divisions within Yemen are complex, but the conflict has essentially become a “proxy war” between Iran (who...
By: Amzad Ali, Age 15 The Trump administration sparked a heated discussion about transgender individuals in early October, when a memo was leaked by the government which narrowed the definition of gender. In the memo, the government states that there are only two...
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