5/6 Senate Makes History By Confirming Loretta Lynch As U.S. Attorney General

Loretta Lynch was confirmed as U.S. attorney general on Thursday after months of GOP delays.  She is making very important history, becoming the first African-American woman to be U.S. attorney general. She was confirmed in the Senate 56 to 43.  All Democrats voted for her and 10 Republicans as well. Senator Ted Cruz was the only senator not to vote for her. He claimed Lynch was "unfit" for the job.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/loretta-lynch-attorney-general-confirmed_n_7127672.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

4/6 Democrats' Frustration With Obama Boils Over As Trade Bills Advance

The democrats' frustration with President Obama's trade agenda boiled over on Thursday. Important opponents accused their party's leader of putting more effort into a bid to aid corporate America than anything he has done for the middle class of America. Senator Sherrod Brown called it maddening, and told reporters that the Obama administration was putting on a full-court press. This was not like anything Democrats had seen in his presidency in order to win the authority to fast track the large trade deals.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/democrats-fast-track_n_7129276.html

3/6 Obama's Next Action: Empowering Low Wage Federal Workers

Hundreds of low wage federal government workers quit their jobs this week in Washington DC, demonstrating for a "living wage and a union." This included the workers who serve the senators food and clean up the messes for them. They carried signs that said "Hiring: A President who will sign a $15 +Union Executive Order." 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-borosage/obamas-next-action-empowe_b_7125110.html

2/6 100 Years Ago, 1.5 Million Christian Armenians Were Systematically Killed. Today, its still not a 'genocide.'

On April 24, 1915, Ottoman Turkish police hauled off Daniel Varoujan, a leading Armenian poet, and over 200 other intellectuals in the capital Constantinople.  To the falling Ottoman Empire, the poets, painters, writers, booksellers and politicians in the Armenian community posed "too much of a threat." A majority of the empire’s Christian Armenian population was targeted and almost wiped out entirely. The united states still does not refer to these events as a genocide, even though about 1.5 million armenians were killed. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/armenian-genocide-controversy_n_7121008.html

1/6 House Passes Cybersecurity Bill After Companies Fall Victim to Data Breaches

The House passed an extreme measure that will urge companies to share access to their computer networks and records with federal investigators, due to a series of computer security breaches in government and the private sector. The bill is a lot like a measure that was approved by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The measure passed 307 to 116.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/politics/computer-attacks-spur-congress-to-act-on-cybersecurity-bill-years-in-making.html?ref=politics

5/5 Ted Cruz Announces He's Running For President In 2016

Ted Cruz announced that he would be running for president at liberty university in Virginia. Cruz is the first high profile candidate to declare that he will be running for president and will take on an exploratory committee. Cruz, is popular among conservatives and often an agitator of the GOP leadership in Congress.  Its been expected that he would run for president for over a year. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/23/ted-cruz-2016_n_6193388.html

4/5 What Hillary Clinton Would Need to Do to Win

Hilary should not expect a lot of competition in the Democratic primaries- she needs to win over the "so called obama blacks and young, college educated whites who supported obama in 2008 and 2012."She also needs to maintain her support of working class women as well as "college educated women in the suburbs."Her message is expected to emphasize a better country for voters' children and grandchildren.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/13/us/elections/hillary-clinton.html?ref=politics

3/5 Stressing Youth, Marco Rubio Joins 2016 Field

Senator Marco Rubio is declaring himself as the youthful future of the republican party, saying that it is time for a new generation to lead. He is entering the race against political dynasties- the bushes and the clintons- but he says it is time for america to start fresh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/us/politics/for-marco-rubio-a-fresh-face-and-a-familiar-story.html?ref=politics

2/5 State Violence Against Black and Brown Youth

According to police reports, Emory Robinson was stopped by a police for "suspicion of a stolen vehicle." The officer who pulled him over claimed that he tried to arrest him, but emery broke free and ran from him. After telling him to stop he fired a "warning shot" in the air, but emery kept running, so the officer shot him in the back. The officer claimed he was in fear of his life because emery had something metal in his hand (his keys).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hanchard/state-violence-against-black-and-brown-youth_b_7000210.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

1/5 Obama to Call for End to ‘Conversion’ Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth

President Obama is calling for an end to therapies aimed at "fixing" transgenders-going back to their original sex. This is because a 17 year old transgender killed herself after religious therapists tried to convince her to go back to being a boy. His decision on this is an example of his support for gay rights.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-end-to-conversion-therapies-for-gay-and-transgender-youth.html?ref=politics&_r=0