News archives (2016-2017)
Week41: June 5 - June 11:
"Britain's general election 2017: results", The Economist
"Shock result as UK election returns hung parliament: as it happened", The Guardian
"The British political class is not up to the job", The Economist
"James Comey's Side of the story", The Atlantic
"Trump accuses Comey of lying", The Washington Post
Week40: May 29 - June 4:
"'Make our planet great again': Macron's response to Trump is praised", The Guardian
"Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau shame Theresa May's 'Weak' reaction to Donald Trump's Paris Agreement Announcement", The Huffington Post
"Did Donald Trump just make the planet hotter?" The Atlantic
"How Jared Kusher built a luxury scryscraper using loans meant for job-starved areas", The Washington Post
Week 39: Monday 22 - Sunday 28:
"Manchester attack: eight men in custody after more raids this morning in operation to disrupt 'network'", The Independent
"Manchester bombing: Government 'furious' at US leaks", The Guardian
"A Message from Manchester: Mancunians unite in defiance against terror", The Economist
"Don't write off populists just yet", The Economist
"The Trump Scandal that has nothing to do with Russia", The Washington Post
Week38: May 15 - May 21:
"How Does this End? Four alternatives for the scandal-plagued presidency of Donald Trump", The Atlantic
"Here's every Trump-Russia investigation happening now", Vox
"Donald Trump and the Law", The Economist
"Chelsea Manning released into a world she helped transform", Wired
"Theresa May accused of being 'too scared' to defend her record after election debate no-show", The Independent
Week37: May 8 - May 14:
"In Trump's Firing of James Comey, Echoes of Watergate", The New York Times
"Democratic Senators call Trump's Firing of Comey 'Nixonian'", The Los Angeles Time
"Hackers hit dozens of countries Exploiting Stolen NSA tools", The New York Times
"Interview with Donald Trump", The Economist
"Cyber-attach: May says 'no evidence' NHS patient records compromised", The Guardian
"How French President Macron may help Europe challenge Silicon Valley", The Independent
Week36: May 1 - May 7:
Rap music contest: vote for your favorite song!
"French election: Whoever wins, France will remain divided", Newsweek
"French Media warned not to publish Macron Leaks", The Guardian
"Why Obama just endorsed Emmanuel Macron for President of France", Vox
"Obamacare under attack", The Washington Post
"Watch Edward Snowden and Cory Doctorow Imagine our hopeful, dystopian future", The Verge
Week35: April 24 - April 30
Rap music contest: vote for your favorite song!
"How Trump Has Reshaped the Presidency, and How it's Changed him too", The New York Times
"French Presidential Election: When the very idea of France is threatened, everybody should vote", The Guardian
"Shops urged to help cut £10 bn food waste cost", The Guardian
Week 34: April 17 - April 23:
"Earth Day: Why People are marching for Science: 'There is no Planet B'", The Washington Post
"On Earth Day, 5 things you neet to know about environmental policy and research", Brookings
"Why we took a stand on Trump", The Los Angeles Times
"Meet the 100 Most Influential People in 2017", Time
Week 33: April 10 - April 16:
"On Easter, Chic in everything but Black", The New York Times
"Mike Pence tells North Korea not to test American resolve", The Washington Post
"The Guardian view on North Korea: Apocalypse Not Right Now", The Guardian
"Asylum-seekers wrongly denied NHS care", The Independent
Week32: April 3 - April 9:
"Neil Gorsuch sworn in as 113th Supreme Court Justice", The Economist
"Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites", The New York Times
"Washington Post's post David Farenthold wins Pulitzer Prize for dogged reporting of Trump's philanthropy", The Washington Post
"Uber Drivers Aren't Worried about Self-Driving Cars Yet", Time
"Post-Brexit-vote-surge for UK economy comes to an end", The Guardian
Week31: March 27 - April 2:
"The Two-year Countdown to Brexit has begun", The Economist
"Brexit and Britain's delusions of empire", The Washington Post
"Robert Redford: 45 years after Watergate, the Truth is again in danger", The Washington Post
Week30: March 20 - March 26:
Earth hour (Official website)
"Trump grants approval for XL Keystone Pipeline, The Washington Post
"President Trump and the GOP humbled by Health Care repeal failure", Time
"Brexit protest: Thousand march in London to 'unite' for Europe", The Guardian
"Four die in a terrorist attack in London", The Economist
Week29: March 13 - March 19:
"Saint Patrick's Day Mishaps", The Washington Post
"Trump's budget directs 2.62 billion to border wall", USA Today
"Far from the White House, the energy industry remains focused on the climate", Brookings Edu
"Former PM John Major attacks 'ultra-Brexiteers' as undemocratic and un-British'", The Guardian
"Why is Silicon Valley so awful to women?", The Atlantic
"Women in the Ivy League: How they got the Chance", Guernica
Week28: March 6 - March 12:
"A Day Without A Woman", Democracy Now
"A Day Without A Woman", Official website
"An all-female VergeCast for a week", The Verge
"Beyond the Bechdel Test: how movies can make us love female characters", The Verge
"WikiLeaks embarrasses the CIA", The Economist
"Scottish Independence: Corbyn 'absolutely fine' with second vote", The Guardian
"Empire 2.0: Drive to replace UK - EU trade links with closer ties to Commonwealth", The Guardian
Week27: February 27 - March 5:
"Robert Reich: 'How Trump Lies about his Lies'", Newsweek
"Betsy DeVos: President Trump delivers on education promises", USA Today
"Leading Brexiters urge May to guarantee EU citizens right to remain in UK", The Guardian
"Stranded Refugees denied UK Asylum face 'life in limbo'", The Guardian
"A digital revolution in health care is speeding up", The Economist
"5 Habits every Student should form in 2017", The Huffington Post
Week26: February 20 - February 26:
"White House blocks CNN, NYT and BBC from Press Briefing", The Washington Post
"Trump rules the Tabloid Media: Washington is a Different Story", The New York Times
"Thomas Perez elected the first Latino Leader of the Democratic Party", The Washington Post
"Corbyn told: Take blame for Copeland byelection flop or we face disaster", The Guardian
"Jeremy Corbyn 'determined to finish the job'", BBC
"CPAC: Nigel Farage says Brexit and Trump win are 'beginning of global Revolution'", The Guardian
Week25: February 13 - February 18:
"Trump calls News Media 'the Enemy of the American People'", The New York Times
"Tracking Trump's first 100 days: an interactive chart", Channel One News
"The Academy's Best Picture Dilemma", The Economist
"Theresa May's new Third Way", The Spectator
"Exoplanets discovery: Five things you didn't know about NASA's new solar system", The Independent
Week24: February 6 - February 12:
"Adele at the Grammys: 'I can't possibly accept this award... Beyoncé is my life'", Vox
"Do the Grammys have the same diversity issue as the Oscars?", Billboard
"Trump and Trudeau: Anything but two of a kind", The Washington Post
"A race against the weather to avoid disaster at California's Oroville Dam", CNN
Week23: January 30 - February 5:
"Do Americans support Trump's Immigration Action?", The Washington Post
"Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court", The Atlantic
"2017 Super Bowl ads", The Washington Post
"Super Bowl 2017: Tom Brady leads Patriots to Historic comeback win", The Guardian
"Robots could replace 250,000 UK public sector workers", The Guardian
Week22: January 23 - January 29:
"'Give me your tired, your poor': the story of poet and refugee advocate Emma Lazarus", The Washington Post
"The Wall is the least aggressive part of Trump's action on immigration", Vox
"Live Coverage of the Women's March on Washington", The Atlantic
"This is what Trump has done so far", Euronews
"'Opposites attract': Theresa May signals strong relationship with Donald Trump", The Guardian
Week21: January 16 - January 22:
"President Trump's Inauguration Day: All the Highlights", USA Today
"This is the most ominous Inauguration Day in modern history", The Washington Post
"Word of the day: 'trump'", The English Blog
"Theresa May's Brexit speech: She opts for a hard Brexit", The Economist
"Theresa May at Davos: Mainstream Politicians must address the problems of Globalization", Newsweek
Week 20: January 9 - January 15:
"President Obama's Farewell address", The White House
"Trump bashes the spooks", The Economist
"Republicans' Three-step plan to kill Obamacare: Step1 complete", Wired
"WhatsApp Vulnerability allows snooping on encrypted messages", The Guardian
"Malala: Can she inspire as an Adult?", Newsweek
Weeks 16-17-18:
2016 year in review: In Memoriam
"2016 in review: Best reads", The Economist
"A look on Barack Obama's Presidency", The Economist
"American leadership is gone", The Washington Post
" 'You are not Henry VIII", Stephen Corbyns tells May about Brexit", The Guardian
Week15: December 5 - December 11:
"How Donald Trump is changing the rules for American business", The Economist
"The Creeping militarization of Donald Trump's Cabinet", Time
"John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, dies at 95", Time
"Ed Miliband joins call for Soft Brexit", The Guardian
"Adele cast black star in Hello video to adresse 'police brutality'", The Guardian
What an American friend of mine thinks about the election results in the US:
Click here to listen to Taylor's take about the election. She comes from Georgia but lives in Oregon now.
Feel free to post a comment if you have any questions to ask her!
Week14: November 28 - December 4:
"Trump stacks Cabinet with millionaire, billionaire executives", The Washington Post
"Trump picks retired Marine General James Mattis for Secretary of Defense: This man is nicknamed 'Mad Dog'", The Washington Post
"Petition to reverse US election result and stop Trump being President is now most popular in history", The Independent
"Football Abuse Scandal grows with 55 clubs now involved", The Guardian
"South Africa's President escapes a political coup", The Economist
Week13: November 22 - November 29:
"Happy Thanksgiving!", Scholastic
"Fidel Castro dies", The New York Times
"The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton", The Washington Post
"Why are people giving Jill Stein millions of dollars for an election recount?" The Washington Post
"The Lessons on Covering the 2016 election", The Economist
"French conservative primary: Fillon expected to beat Juppé", The Guardian
Week12: November 14 - November 20:
"Can Trump actually drain the swamp? The answer is murky", CNN
"Senator Elizabeth Wareen: Donald Trump already broke promise to 'drain the swamp'", YouTube
"Trump and Pence vs 'Hamilton' cast: the collision of two Americas", The Washington Post
"Dead is gone forever: the need for cryonics policy", Newsweek
Week11: November 7 - November 13:
"Flashback: Watch the Simpsons predict a Trump Presidency", Rolling Stone
"'Not my President': Thousands protest Trump in rallies across USA", The Washington Post
"Number 10 says Trump wants Reagan-Thatcher relationship with May", The Independent
"2016 will be the hottest year on record, UN says", The Guardian
Week10: November 1 - November 6:
"Time until Election Day: countdown", The Wasgington Post
"The Economist endorses Hillary Clinton", The Economist
"Why Britain is wooing India", The Economist
"How much money would you need to ditch your job forever?", Time
"A Black History Museum at last", Guernica
Week9: October 24 - October 31:
"FBI obtains warrant to review emails linked to Huma Abedin", USA Today
"US stock markets Dive after News of FBI Review of Additional Clinton Email", The Atlantic
"Trump pledges new deal for 'black America'", The Washington Post
"This is how Halloween became a Holiday", Time
"Revealed: Rolls-Royce middlemen may have used bribes to land major contracts", The Guardian
Week8: October 17 - October 23:
"The debasing of US Politics", The Economist
"Leave it to a Canadian ad campaign to deliver the most inspiring message of the US election", The Washington Post
" 'Brexit times five': could Trump really win despite polls favoring Clinton?", The Guardian
"Brexit: Leading banks set to pull out of UK early next year", The Guardian
"Battle to save Canada trade deal with EU amid concerns over implications of Brexit, The Independent
Week7: October 10 - October 16:
"Two more women accuse Trump of sexual misconduct", USA Today
"Highlights of the 2nd presidential debate", English Blog
"How 10 mega-donors helped pour a record 1.1 dollars into super PACS", The Washington Post
"Nicola Sturgeon challenges May with second referendum bill", The Guardian
"You can have 'hard Brexit' or 'no Brexit at all', Tusk tells UK", The Independent
Week6: October 3 - October 9:
"Hurricane Matthew batters Florida's northeast coast: four deaths linked to storm", The Washington Post
"Obama casts his ballot in Chicago: 'I'm confident; I'm not overconfident' about Hillary Clinton's chances of winning", The Washington Post
"Top Takeaways from the Vice-Presidential debate", USA Today
"Brexit: I'm being stripped of my citizenship - along with 65 million orthers", The Guardian
Week5: September 26 - October 2:
"Brexit: What are the options?", BBC News
"Hard Brexit or Soft Brexit?", OpenEurope.org.uk
"Presidential debate Highlights", The Guardian
"Donald Trump and Sexism on the Campaign Trail", The Atlantic
"R.I.P Rosetta: The Orbiter just smashed into a comet in the name of science", The Washington Post
"Photos of the Week", The Atlantic
Week4: September 19 - September 25:
"Brangelina split: What we know and what we don't know", CNN
"State of Emergency declared in Charlotte after police shooting", Aljazeera
"Charlotte police shooting: Family says video is unclear", CNN
"New York Bombing: Suspect named as more devices are found in New Jersey", The Guardian
"Labour Members resign after Jeremy Corbyn's win", The Independent
Week3: September 12 - September 18:
"Clinton on pneumonia: 'It finally got some Republicans intered in women's health'", Politico
"Hillary Clinton's health just became a real issue in the presidential campaign", The Washington Post
"Theresa May 'likely to launch Brexit talks in early 2017', suggests Donald Tusk", The Guardian
"José Mourinho tells Paul Pogba: 'Forget about the world-record fee, just play your game", The Guardian
Week2: September 5 - September 11:
Week1: August 29 - September 4:
Week0: August 22 - August 28:
"The Basic of Hillary Clinton's ongoing e-mail troubles", The Washington Post
"Trump responds to Clinton attacks: 'Shame on you'", USA Today
"Brexit Watch: At-a-glance day-by-day summer briefing", BBC news
"NHS plans closures and radical cuts to combat growing deficit in health budget", The Guardian
"Rio 2016: The most memorable moments in this year's Olympics", The Independent