Students Vote 2016

Any student enrolled in a Newsela class can vote between Oct. 17 - Nov. 1

Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman warms up prior to an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in California, September 18, 2016. Sherman said the public isn't listening to the message NFL players are trying to send with their actions during the national anthem.
SPORTS es
09.27.16

Football player says protests meant to bring awareness to police shootings

LATEST NEWS 
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) and his wife, Priscilla Chan, rehearse for a speech in San Francisco, California, September 20, 2016. Zuckerberg and Chan have a new lofty goal: to cure, manage or eradicate all disease by the end of this century.
HEALTH es
09.26.16

Zuckerbergs' goal: Eradicate disease by 2100 with $3 billion pledge

In this July 22, 1929, file photo, sculptor Gutzon Borglum (left) directs drillers suspended by cables from the top of the mountain as they work on the head of President George Washington at the Mount Rushmore Memorial in the Black Hills area near Keystone, S.D.
MONEY
09.26.16

Mount Rushmore turns 75, and remains a fixture in pop culture

An Iraqi child sits on a trike in front of a painted security wall in August 2008 in the Shiite district of Sadr east of Baghdad, Iraq. The wall was constructed by both the U.S. and Iraqi armies for security reasons.
WAR & PEACE
09.26.16

Throughout history, walls have divided cities and communities within them

Students learn how to make okonomiyaki at the Otafuku Sauce Co.'s museum and cooking studio in Hiroshima, Japan.
WAR & PEACE
09.26.16

Okonomiyaki — "whatever you like" grilled — is city's signature selection

Demonstrators protest Tuesday's fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 21, 2016
LAW es
09.23.16

State of emergency in North Carolina as protests turn violent

A kea alpine parrot sits on a branch at the edge of a forest in New Zealand.
SCIENCE
09.23.16

New Zealand's mountain-dwelling kea parrot is in danger of extinction