LNGenZ News for Kids: Current Events

Student Names Mars Rover How would you like to name NASA’s Mars Rover? One lucky student got that honor after winning an essay contest. Alex Mather, a seventh-grade student from Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia, named the rover on… Read More

Joe Biden Takes Super Tuesday This week saw real progress in deciding who will represent the Democratic Party during the 2020 presidential election. March 3 was Super Tuesday, one of the biggest occasions in selecting a presidential nominee. Fourteen states,… Read More

The Washington presidential primary is set for March 10. The ballots have already been mailed out, and many voters are quite upset. They’re required to mark their party affiliation on the outside of the ballot – Republican or Democrat, of… Read More

Sanders Wins Nevada Caucus The Democrat Party took another step toward the 2020 election this week. It held its second caucus – an important step as the party decides who it will choose to run as the presidential nominee. A… Read More

This week, all eyes are trained on Nevada as Democrats gather in caucus venues to select a candidate as nominee for president of the United States. With the technical glitches that occurred during the Iowa caucus early this month –… Read More

Media treat the Coronavirus as a potential pandemic, but many experts regard it as not particularly dangerous. While the virus can be deadly, there is some evidence that information technology is preventing a pandemic. Background Despite living in a globalized… Read More

New Hampshire Primary The United States is now in an election year, and the process of choosing candidates to run for the next presidency is gaining speed. The Democrats are competing in the caucus and primary process to run against… Read More

What happens when the app designed to report voting results fails? Tuesday’s Iowa’s caucus fiasco, of course. So, what happened? No one really knows for sure, not even the app’s developers. At 10:26 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3, the Iowa… Read More

Technical Difficulties and Election Confusion in Iowa The Iowa caucus for the Democratic Party was expected to give presidential candidates some sense of how they’re doing Monday, Feb. 3, but technical difficulties led to election confusion. A smartphone app used… Read More

On January 31 at 11 p.m., Britain will leave the European Union (E.U.). Since voting to leave the union back in 2016, Great Britain has been through three Prime Ministers, two General Elections, and three and a half years of… Read More

Trump Impeachment Trial Underway The impeachment trial of Donald Trump is underway. The trial is being conducted in the Senate, after the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president. As the trial began, Democrat impeachment managers laid out their… Read More

In news that shocked America and the athletic world, basketball great Kobe Bryant, 41, died January 26 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. Bryant was a husband and a father of four daughters, one of whom – 13-year-old Gianna… Read More