The Race to the White House

The eighth Democratic debate was held Friday night in New Hampshire.

• The second Democratic presidential nominating contest - the NH primary - will take place on Tuesday.
• According to the latest polls, Bernie Sanders holds a slim lead over Pete Buttigieg in NH.

Impeachment Witnesses Fired

On Friday, President Trump fired two officials who testified in his impeachment inquiry - EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Vindman’s twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also fired from the National Security Council.

Iran Hit With Cyber Attack

An Iranian telecommunications official on Saturday said the country had experienced a cyber attack that disrupted national internet connectivity for approximately one hour. The attack comes just weeks after a leaked report surfaced showing the United Nations was targeted by a “well-resourced” cyber attack in the fall of 2019.

Jobs Report Card

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the January jobs report on Friday, noting a net increase of 225,000 jobs, though the unemployment rate increased by 0.1% (3.5% to 3.6%). For the first time ever, data on married persons were broken into the sub-categories of opposite-sex and same-sex marriage.

Brigham’s Billions

According to the WSJ, the endowment fund operated by the Mormon Church - Ensign Peak Advisors - is worth around $100 billion, roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Harvard’s $40 billion endowment fund. Church officials who oversee Ensign Peak have said the fund is a rainy-day account to be used in difficult economic times.

Kentucky Fried Chickpea

Beyond Meat has announced it will test its plant-based chicken in more than 70 KFC locations across Tennessee, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Last August, a one-day test of KFC’s Beyond Fried Chicken at an Atlanta, Georgia location saw its inventory sold out in less than five hours.

Thank U, Text

In today’s fast-paced world where the average person spends 11 hours a day staring at a screen, feelings of loneliness and isolation can be commonplace. That’s where Text for Humanity comes in - through their new program, volunteers can now send positive and encouraging texts to strangers.

Sharing is Caring

Scientists have long debated the question of nature vs. nurture. A new study from the University of Washington found that altruism - the concern for the well-being of others - can be seen in children as young as 19 months. In an experiment, toddlers were given a desirable snack to see if the child would offer it to an adult in need, even if they, themselves, were hungry.

Over half of the children in the control group responded by offering their food, with those brought up with siblings being even more likely to give - suggesting that altruism could be a learned trait.

Teach A Man To Fish…

After years of steady decline in fish populations around the globe, recent findings show that closely managed fish stocks are recovering from low populations, leading to a rebound in a prominent food source.

The most positive aspect of the research is that some fish stocks at dangerously low levels can be saved simply by limiting commercial fishing to under a certain limit.