In today’s day and age, the topic of immigration is very controversial and while everyday people may have different opinions, the only opinions that matter are those Judges in the Immigration courts. These professionals decide the fate of immigrants and/or migrants on whether they should be allowed to stay in the United States or be deported.
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New York City has been making substantial progress towards a return to normalcy within the past few weeks. Several city traditions such as Broadway and the Met Gala have returned after last year’s cancelations due to the pandemic. One of the most prominent events in the city includes New York Fashion Week. Organized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), New York Fashion week is a biannual series of runways shows and demonstrations used by designers to present their collections for the upcoming fashion seasons. Typically, New York Fashion Week brings over 230,000 visitors to the city and generates approximately 900 million dollars for the city’s economy. With a year long hiatus, designers went all out for this year’s event using unconventional and creative ways to show off their new collections.
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Former German minister of Finance Olaf Scholz is likely to be the next German Chancellor after this year’s election in Germany, marking an end to Angela Merkel’s 16 year run as Chancellor. Scholz and his party, the center-left Social Democrats (S.P.D.), emerged victorious in the Sep. 26 election, winning 25.7% of the total vote, compared to 24.1% for Merkel’s party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.), which suffered the worst defeat for the party since its founding in the years after World War II. Merkel, however, opted not to run for reelection, marking the first time a sitting chancellor has done so in the postwar era.
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Carles Puigdemont, founder of the separatist movement Together for Catalonia, faced a court hearing on October 4 following his arrest on September 23. He was arrested in Sardinia, Italy due to a, “warrant seeking his return to Spain for trial over a failed independence bid he led four years ago.”
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For a virus that has been around for less than half a decade, the marketing to receive the vaccine for COVID-19 had grown immensely since the first days of it going public. The newest target audience? Kids.
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As streaming and traditional television competes for consumers’ attention, so do advertisers. With advantages in both streaming and traditional advertising, streaming provides a growing opportunity as it captures those consumers who are abandoning the once uncontested traditional TV landscape.
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On October 22nd Poland’s constitutional court ruled that abortion in cases of severe fetal deformities was unconstitutional. This ruling further restricted access to abortion in what was already one of the most difficult European nations to have the procedure. In response to the ruling, citizens in the nation’s capital, Warsaw, took to the streets in protest.
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A powerful earthquake has recently hit part of western Turkey and the nearby Greek island of Samos. This has resulted in the destruction of many buildings and the deaths of many people.
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On October 25, Chileans voted in a referendum to rewrite the state’s constitution with 78 percent of the vote supporting the change.
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Last Thursday, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. agreed to pay a $2.9B fine to regulators for raising funds for 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund tied to multiple cases of fraud and corruption. Dubbed as “one of the biggest financial scams in history,” the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has led one of the world’s largest investment firms to plead guilty after further investigations ensued.
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