On Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama will address the nation and lay out his administration's plan to deal with the Islamic State in Iraq and the surrounding region. He is also expected to address growing concerns that ISIL (the acronym the government is sticking with to refer to the militant group) is a serious threat to the United States.

How did the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) obtain an armored vehicle? Through the Department of Defense's Excess Property Program. The program donates unused equipment to state and local law enforcement agencies who submit requests. SDUSD did not have to purchase the vehicle, but had to pay a $5,000 shipping fee to deliver it to San Diego.

When the subject of Cuba arises, the immediate associations are communism, missile crisis, and embargo. Obviously, Cuban history goes much farther back than 1959, but so does its relationship with the United States.

Political drama is usually reserved for critical swing states in national politics, but this year's U.S. Senate race in Kansas continues to have surprises at every turn.

Over the past year, the media has made a ton of fuss over the dominance of Millennials in the Silicon Valley. Older workers are often pushed out for innovative young thinkers to expand the boundaries of technological advancement.

The first debate in the Kansas race for U.S. Senate was held at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas on Saturday. In the first face-to-face meeting, Republican incumbent Pat Roberts continued his attempts to characterize independent candidate Greg Orman as a liberal Democrat. Orman called into question Roberts' voting record, particularly issues where Roberts sided with Democrats on appropriation bills.

It's the same story that independent candidates face across the country: a battle against a mass of special interest groups, accusations of spoiling the race, and laws tailored to the interests of the two-party duopoly. That's exactly where Maine's independent gubernatorial candidate, Eliot Cutler, currently finds himself.

“I don't take money from special interest PACs or political parties,” Cutler said in an interview for IVN.

The Gaza Strip, an approximately 30-mile long strip of land sandwiched between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, is the location of one of the most contentious and hotly debated conflicts in recent human history.

The latest iteration of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict is now entering its third month with little hope of lasting peace, despite attempts by Secretary of State John Kerry and Egyptian President el-Sisi to quell indiscriminate rocket fire on the part of Hamas and to halt civilian causalities as a result of Israeli airstrikes.

Upon landing in the new world the first things settlers did was hold an election. Voting was commonplace, though not uniform. Colonies pursued their own methods, policies, restrictions, and exceptions.

Voting used to be the privilege of America’s white, wealthy, and elite men. The privileged class tried to keep the power of the vote from people of color, the poor, and women since the birth of this nation.

In 1776, only white, male property owners were permitted to vote.