1B. Yesterday's presidential debate included four second tier republican candidates who didn't quite make the cut in terms of being seriously considered for the presidency. This helped them get an opinion out to the media. Donald Trump was a very pivotal part of the discussion, and took priority over the others even though he was not on stage for the event.
2. The current director of the CIA was at U.T. this Wednesday in order to release 2500 daily briefs addressing national security concerns belonging to Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy to the general public. The saddening trend of the government repeatedly doing shady dealings and not releasing them to the American people is what John Brennan is attempting to address with this new openness. You can access the documents on the CIA's official website. A PDB is an acronym for presidents daily brief, a document for classified information only sent to the presidents most trusted officials.
3. Hungary's law enforcement recently turned high pressure water cannons on asylum seekers who broke down a fence into Hungary. Alternate routes for the refugees go through active minefields, and are not safe at all.
4. Ahmed Mohamed was recently detained for building a homemade clock because a teacher thought it was a bomb. The authorities have defended their actions, stating that the reaction to the clock would've been the same, regardless of race. Half a million people, including Barack Obama, have rushed to the boy's defense, exclaiming that this kind of racial profiling is unacceptable in this day and age.
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