5 Top Stories of 2015
by:Kiana Croom
The year 2015 has taken many loses due to all the situations that have taken place.
" For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone." said by David Cameron, the prime minister of United Kingdom .
iran nuclear deal
The that struck between Iran , United States and five other global powers, including Russia and China- aims to block Iran form building nuclear weapons in exchange for the removal of long-standing international oil and financial sanctions.
Gay marriage legalized
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday that it is legal for all Americans, no matter their gender , to marry the people they love. Some people like Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, drew national headlines over the summer when she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, just because of her Christian beliefs.
Mass shootings in America
A church in Charleston, S.C., an Oregon community college, a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility, a developmental disability center in California, a movie theater in Louisiana, and a military recruiting center in Tennessee — these are just some of the sites of mass shootings this year in the United States. Each time one of these incidents involved a fight over gun control.
paris attack
The lingering terrorist all known as Isis threat resurfaced in horrible fashion late this year with a pair of deadly attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. The massacres also provoked new condemnations of Obama's plan to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees to resettle in the U.S. over the next year. At least one perpetrator of the November Paris attacks, which left 130 people dead, had allegedly entered Europe as a refugee
Obama rejects Keystone
The fight over the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline — an enormous project slated to deliver oil sands crude from Canada to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast — had put President Obama in a box for years.
“We want to prevent the worst effects of climate change, and the time to act is now,” he said.
The debate may not be over. Republicans could still try to overturn Obama's decision, meaning the issue may fall to the next president after all.
in 2016 I think there will be more terrorist threat, but hopefully they can get it under control.
in 2016 i plan on being more focus and getting a car