Lastest Stories by Angelo Young

There is compelling evidence of mass killing of civilians by Myanmar’s military, according to the United Nations. These killings are part of the military’s ongoing efforts to quell armed...
In August 2023, the U.S. Navy announced it would extend the life of four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, which will keep them in service well into the 2030s. The announcement came at the same time...
San Francisco’s Bay Area was an affordable hippie and music enclave in the 1960s that later became a magnet for the gay community in the 1980s. The rise of the U.S. tech industry in the ’90s...
White Americans not only make up the majority of the population — 59% excluding non-Hispanic whites — but they also dominate wealth ownership compared to Black and Hispanic Americans. The Federal...
The release of “Top Gun: Maverick” last year inspired new interest in aerial combat and the U.S. military’s fighter jets, new and old. The main fighter jet used in the movie is the F/A-18F...
With the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons near Ukraine and an elevated defiant stance against North Korea by the United States on the Korean Peninsula using a nuclear-armed submarine, people on...
On July 4, 1776, the American Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. While July 4 is celebrated as the birthday of the United States, the country was very...
The United States isn’t a very old country. When it was fighting its war for independence from England, China’s Qing Dynasty had already ruled for 130 years, India’s Mughal Empire was beginning...
In the last 10 years, 9 out of every 10 counties in the United States have experienced a federally declared climate disaster, according to a report released late last year. Disasters including...
On July 26, the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a point, to a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, making it more expensive to borrow money for everything from business loans...
Firearms likely first appeared in combat in China in the 14th century. From then on, those so-called “hand cannons” began to spread across the globe, to all points westward. Within about a...
Data consistently shows that people with college degrees tend to earn more than people without them. The Social Security Administration estimates that men with bachelor’s degrees earn $900,000 more...
Other than the occasional flare-up of anti-immigrant nativism and nationalism throughout American history, the United States has long been a harbor for immigrants seeking opportunities for freedom...
The honking of impatient drivers, the pre-dawn crashing sounds of garbage collection, the hovering of police and news helicopters, the inconsideration of neighbors – lots of stuff contributes to...
California’s 2020 wildfire season was particularly savage. By the end of that year, about 4% of California’s landmass, some 4.3 million acres, had gone up in smoke from nearly 10,000 wildfires...