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December 2018
President Bush; Top 5 Trending Headlines
President George H. W. Bush and Lin-Manuel Miranda dominated the headlines this week on Hispanic Outlook’s Facebook page.
President George H. W. Bush and Lin-Manuel Miranda dominated the headlines this week on Hispanic Outlook’s Facebook page.
The good news is employers in the United States added 155,000 jobs last month, which suggests that the economy is expanding. However, that is a slowdown from recent months.
The first Hispanic Congressman for the state of Arizona, Ed Pastor will be laid to rest December 7 following a weeklong celebration of his life.
Students at Ohio State University are getting a vending machine that offers cooked bacon strips and bacon bits. Proceeds will go towards the school’s meat science program.
President Trump is considering at least four candidates for his new chief of staff, including Mick Mulvaney and Mark Meadows. This follows Nick Ayers dropping out of the running.
Migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, have been steadily slipping through, tunneling under or climbing over the U.S. border wall to seek asylum in the United States.
President Trump tweeted that he would have the military build the border wall if Democrats don’t support his demand for billions to build the wall.
A demonstration in San Diego at the Mexico border led to the arrests of 32 people. A Border Patrol spokesman said one arrest was for assault and the rest were on suspicion of trespassing.
President Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, has been sentenced to three years in prison for an array of crimes including arranging hush money payments.
President Trump has encouraged the idea of viewing Mexico as a gateway for international terrorists. The president recently talked about 10 terrorists who were caught by the U.S. But there is more to that statistic.
During a phone call this week, President Trump and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador discussed relations between the U.S. and Mexico but not the border wall.
An Obama-era rule is leading to the forgiveness of loans for 15,000 former students. The U.S. Education Department says $150 million in loans is going to be wiped clean.
A bomb threat made to Sandy Hook Elementary School led to an evacuation. It is not clear if this threat is connected to nationwide bomb threats made on Thursday.
California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) and California Fire Foundation will be hosting a fundraiser on December 18 to help support those impacted by the California fire.
SUNY Canton and the University at Buffalo School of Laws are launching a new program where students can earn a bachelor’s degree and a law degree in six years.