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February 2025 Hot Topics
Synthesia AI technology capital; Argentina Economic Growth; DC Black Hawk helicopter crash; Australia Coral Bleaching; Donald Trump Executive Actions; Bird Flu; South Africa Operation Shanela; China DeepSeek debuts; TikTok Ban; Meta Facebook fact-checking; Cryptocurrency Task Force; Vietnam foreign direct investment; California wildfires and home insurance; Israel and Gaza Ceasefire Agreement; Hungary oppostition movement; Mount Denali name change; Laken Riley Act; International Education Day; DOE Title IX and NIL; Reverend Budde’s Appeal; Southern India Pongal festival; Kenya: Generation Z protests; National Emergency southern border; Democratic Republic of Congo Mpox Outbreak; Chile Astronomers first image of star outside galaxy; Possible Extraterrestrial Ancestors asteroid Bennu; Stargate Project AI; Figure Skating World Loses Athletes; U.S. College Football Championship; Australian Open 2025; Bob Uecker Baseball; United Kingdom Promotion Women’s Sports;
architect Friedrich St. Florian; Islamic Arts Biennale; Colombia Hay Festival; Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson; Golden Globe Awards; 2000 Meters to Andriivka; Grammy Awards; Music tourism; Peter Yarrow Folk trio; Broadway Redwood Idina Menzel; 1000th Showing of Come From Away; Joseph Aoun Lebanon’s New President; South Africa Gogo Maweni; Army Nancy Leftenant-Colon; Davd Lynch; Cartoonist Jules Feiffer
Janurary 2025 Hot Topics
President Jimmy Carter Habitat for Humanity; Bank of International Settlements Warning; U.S. Electoral College and Inauguration; Syria economic recovery; New Year New Orleans incident and Trump International Hotel Las Vegas cyber truck explosion; Twin Stars and the Black Hole; Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy use for chronic illness; England 2024 Booker Prize Winner, Orbital by Samantha Harvey; Meta AI Facility Growth; SoftBank and U.S. Job Creation; UK royal mail sold to Czech billionaire; South Africa load shedding Eskom's stabilization; U.S. Treasury Department Hacked; David O. Sacks AI and Crypto Czar; Social security risk; Biden presidential pardon; U.S. Electoral College and Inauguration; South Korea Impeachment of President Yoon; Federal Shutdown Averted; monument in Maine honoring Frances Perkins; Berlin Wall anniversary; Ireland free state treaty; FBI Director Christopher Wray Stepping Down; Australia Largest Cocaine Seizure Ever; Norway boys learn English quicker by gaming; Cuts to School Bus Services; Religious Celebrations in December; Italy La Bafana community digest; Afghanistan Women Resist Taliban Rule; Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument; Commonwealth Fusion Systems first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant; Southeast Africa Cyclone Chido; Ethiopia malaria surge; pig organ transplants; Australia The National Indigenous Science Translation Centre Established; New Jersey mysterious drones; UVM National Soccer Champions; Travis Hunter Heisman Trophy; FIFA Awards Winners; The 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix; Juan Soto’s Record Contract; A Modern Wing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Hong Kong Business of Design Week; Nikki Giovanni poetry; Mufasa The Lion King Barry Jenkins; Red Sea International Film Festival; Zakir Hussain Master of the Tabla; The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky; Kennedy Center Honors; Ghana and Nigeria Detty December performance; Linda Lavin Alice awards; Fraser Stoddart Nobel Prize winner in chemistry; Canada Chrystia Freeland Resigns; Mazen Al-Hamada activist; David Mallett Garden Song

December 2024 Hot Topics
Australia social media ban; Israel Lebanon ceasefire; earbuds and social isolation; Russia and Ukraine war; Biden last actions as president; Azerbaijan COP29 climate action conference; Trump Administration Nominees; United Kingdom Fusion Energy Research Leader; Boeing Machinists Accept Contract; Brazil South-South Business Alliances; Spirit Airlines Bankruptcy; The Onion Buys Infowars; India middle class growth; World financial market presidential election; Holiday shopping; New Zealand protest for Māori rights; Australia and Canada Remembrance Day; Harriet Tubman Civil War; Israel Netanyahu Trial; Australia social media ban for children; Jack Teixeira sentenced; US foreign college students record; Rwanda learning poverty; Thailand Loy Krathong gratitude to Pra Mae Khongkha; Louisiana schools 10 commandments blocked; world youth activism during digital age; United States wildfires; non-brain cells and memory; Australia light exposure and mental health; United Kingdom fusion energy research; Regulations for Google; World Quantum Computing; New York City Marathon; Mike Tyson and Jake Paul; South Africa Cape Town majors marathon status; Netherlands football soccer fans assaulted; Geno Auriemma UCONN UCAA basketball coach; Metropolitan Museum of Art Connection with Egypt; Qatar The Art and Influence of Gérôme; Palestine Lena Khalaf Tuffaha poems; Dorothy Allison author; Wicked movie; Japan Dragon Ball turns 40; United Kingdom One Direction music; Country Music Awards; Judith Jamison Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in New York City; Paris Opera Ballet tickets available; Quincy Jones career in music; Arthur Frommer travel guides; Botswana Duma Boko Elected President; Italy Super-G racer Matilde Lorenzi dies; Bernard Marcus Home Depot; Thomas Kurtz computer programmer;
November 2024 Hot Topics
Kamala Harris and Trump Presidential Election; Australia First Nation Water Market; Sri Lanka freedom of the press; Health span living longer; Tokyo Japan metro public offering; robotaxis and Tesla; Marketing trends in retail; Google App Store ruling; Massive meat recall; TD Bank money laundering; Nobel Prize economics; Cuba hurricane power grid; 2025 tax brackets IRS; Middle East turmoil; Brazil dinosaur evolution; 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre; Robert Roberson shaken baby syndrome; Italy surrogacy outlawed; South Africa STEM education; Diversity drops at top colleges; Oklahoma bible lawsuit; Mexico Dia de los Muertos and All Saint’s Day; Indigenous Peoples Day; Nobel Prize in medicine; United Kingdom Nobel Prize in chemistry; Turkey cosmetic surgery boom; Yankees and Dodgers World Series; England Manchester United frenzy; England Green Sports Award; WNBA Champions; Cincinnati Reds Pete Rose; Chicago marathon; Boston Red Sox pitcher Luis Tiant; Finland Janne Puhakka killed; Maurice Sendak Denver Art Museum; AlUla Skies Festival; Russia Alexei Navalnaya's memoir called Patriot; Bob Woodward’s Book called War; Lynda Obst producer; Tim Burton London Design Museum opening; Amsterdam dance event; American Music Awards anniversary special; Jamie Lloyd Sunset Boulevard; Australia pub choirs; Canada Geoffrey Hinton Nobel Prize AI; Lily Ledbetter Goodyear; Ethel Kennedy human rights advocate; Fernando Venezuela MLB pitcher; John Amos actor; United Kingdom Dame Maggie Smith life
October 2024 Hot Topics
Gauteng South Africa and water, United Kingdom and Ireland AI learning, American inflation-adjusted income, Kamala Harris and Trump, United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, Paralympics, blind football, geopolitical tensions, Changing Geopolitical Landscape, DirecTV and Disney, Tupperware bankruptcy, Boeing strike, Federal Reserve, Ghana illegal mining, Brazil and Vietnam coffee price increase, Political repression in Belarus, Ethel Rosenberg spy case, Secret service assassination investigation, South Africa communities fight Shell’s offshore exploration, Reading assignments get shorter in U.S. schools, Christian schools opening, Southeast Asia Ganesh Chaturthi, China changes age of retirement, Haitian Immigrants in Springfield Ohio, No plastic bags in California, Hurricane Helene, early detection of ovarian cancer, U.S. heathcare ranking, record black hole twin jets, world biomaterials, Israel and Lebanon warfare technology, Italy Mushroom robot, U.S. Open Tennis, WNBA basketball records, Australia Future Green
and Gold Campaign, Australian Institute of Sports, AIS looking for elite athletes, NWSL Alex Morgan retires, NCAA landmark settlement, Oakland A's move to Las Vegas, Glenn Lowry stepping down Museum of Modern Art, International Art Fair of Bogota opens in Columbia, Yuval Noah Harari writes book Nexus, evolution of information and its power on society, Hillary Clinton memoir, Emmy Awards, Uganda Bobi Wine The People’s President, Drake’s “It’s All a Blur” Tour, MTV VMA Awards Taylor Swift and Post Malone, Michaela DePrince ballet, Scotland Edinburgh Festival Fringe performance, James Earl Jones career on stage, Rebecca Cheptegei Uganda marathon runner, J.D. Souther Eagles composer and songwriter, New York City Mayor Eric Adams indicted, Kris Kristofferson American singer,
June 2024 Hot Topics
UN Economic Report; President Trump Convicted; South Africa Parliament; UK Elections; First Female President of Mexico; College protest on Israeli attack; Nightmares and autoimmune disorders; New covid variants; Negro Leagues in MLB; Africa leapfrogging technology; Airlines sue USDOT; Red Lobster bankruptcy; DOJ sues Ticketmaster; Canada mining companies; Tariffs and Chinese imports; Social Security Insolvency; World cloud market; New Caledonia protest; AI in elections; Revolutionary War barracks discovered; Egypt pyramids location; US guns to Mexican Cartels; ICC issues arrest warrants; student source markets shift; Methodists repeal LGBTQ ban; Ireland and Scotland Beltane; Georgia foreign influence; Arizona abortion ban repealed; Southwestern storms and tornadoes; Power grid overwhelmed; Wildfires in Canada; Papua New Guinea landslide; human brain map; New York-Dublin portal; NCAA and athlete pay; Jeevanji world record; PGA Championship; Kentucky Derby; Ukraine sports champ; NBA rookie; Met Gala; Green Roof Day; Dabney Coleman; Cannes Film Festival; Eurovision; Pulitzer Prizes; Fluxus; Ebrahim Raisolsadati Dies; Samuel Alito Jr; NBA Bill Walton; Ivan Boesky; Dorothy Jean Tillman; Ed Dwight; Julian Assange
May 2024 Hot Topics
TikTok ban; Student protests against Israel; Sahara dust plume; Australian food insecurity; AI in healthcare; Volkswagen union; Deepwater oil export terminal; Rio web summit; Russian economic growth; US economic slowdown; Japanese interest rates; Middle East tension; US foreign aid; new World Heritage Sites in UK; Tulsa Race Riot reparations; South Africa freedom anniversary; Arizona election fraud; Trump legal cases; El Salvador murder rates; human rights violations; Title IX expansions; Power plant regulations; Green chemistry; High speed train between LA and LV; Masters Tournament; Boston Marathon; Surfing; Queen Park Ladies; NFL Draft; Istanbul Film Festival; Coachella;

Special focus: Internationalization of Higher Education
TOPIC: A number of studies show that students graduating from university today who demonstrate global competency have many options to thrive in the 21st-century professional world. How can university curriculums support the development of global competencies in their students? How can educational assessment rubrics evaluate global competency? What types of educational experiences happen beyond the classroom in the internationalization of higher education? How many foreign languages should a university graduate have proficiency in in today’s world?
SEARCH TERMS: (education OR "IHE" OR learning OR academic OR school OR university OR college) AND ("global citizenry" OR "global competence" OR multicultural OR "global issues" OR internationalization) AND "21st century"
April 2024 Hot Topics
China’s economy, Sudan’s civil war, forever chemicals in our water, Gaza ceasefire?, daylight savings time, climate change and sports, LEED compliance and Bangladesh, Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, federal budget, State of the Union address, Women’s History Month, Haiti anarchy, Texas migrants, Sidechat, ISIS attack on Moscow, Holi, Abortion in France and the US, Great Barrier Reef bleaching, geothermal energy station in Iceland, Neuralink impant, Road to Paris Olympics, Robert Kennedy candidateship, Putin elected again
March 2024 Hot Topics
NATO; Ransomware; Presidential Race; High Seas Treaty; Norovirus; coral bleaching; Capitol One purchase of Discover; consumer debt; financial technology in Africa; Women’s History Month; student debt cancellation; digital literacy; malaria vaccine; first commercial lunar landing; Daytona 500
February 2024 Hot Topics
Sustainability trends, deepfakes and misinformation, the cost of Brexit, brain chips, border access, Avon in Russia, New York Times v. OpenAI, global energy markets, US national debt, 2024 Presidential race, Ecuador state of emergency, execution by nitrogen hypoxia, California teacher strikes, Gaza mosques, Alzheimer’s treatment, rhino fertilization, J-Pop
January 2024 Hot Topics
Gaza/Israel; Russia/Ukraine; Japanese earthquakes; Chinese economics; EV charging stations; Pandemic’s impact on education; Google Play monopoly; Prince Harry hacking; Tesla recall; IRS tax penalty waivers; 2024 Presidential race; Chilean constitution; Indian criminal law reform; Texas immigration law; Nuclear fusion; Gene editing for sickle cell

Hot Topics December 2023
Israel/Gaza; Slowdown of economic growth; Sustainable aviation fuel; Oldest black hole; Word of the Year; Starbucks strike; Walmart modernization; Black Friday and Cyber Monday; Elder care costs; Argentina election; Voting Rights Act; Kennedy assassination anniversary; Ancient technology in Iraq; Supreme Court Code of Conduct; Portland teacher strike; Vidal-Quadras assassination attempt; Chinese Mosque crackdown; Iceland volcano; New Zealand smoking ban; Vaccine exmpetions; Rosalynn Carter and Henry Kissinger
November 2023 Hot Topics
Israel and Gaza; UAW Strike ends; AI Executive order; Lewiston Maine; Malaria vaccine; Rite Aid bankruptcy; US Debt Interest payments; Speaker of the House; Canadian First Nation premier; New Mexico ancient footprints; Footballer's parents kidnapped; ACT scores at record low; Iranian woman' rights activist Nobel Prize; Mississippi River drought; NASA Psyche mission; Neanderthals and Cave lions; Rugby World Cup; Chicago Marathon; Nobel Prize winners; Canadian black is first Speaker of the House of Commons;
October 2023 Hot Topics
Shutdown; Armenia and Azerbaijan; UAW strike; Libyan floods; Rupert Murdoch resignation; Florida high speed train; iPhone 12 radiation; Google settlement; Chinese Defense Minister missing; IRS audit policy; Chile Coup anniversary; Office of Gun Violence Prevention; Assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar; Mathematics education crisis; Lab-grown Kosher meat; Floating barrier in Rio Grande; Drilling in Alaska; Japan Moon launch; FLIR imaging; US Open; Asteroid samples on Earth; WGA strike; Suing ChatGPT; Dianne Feinstein; Jimmy Buffett
September 2023 Hot Topics
COVID resurgence; BRICS summit; Maui wildfires; Moon landings; Mortgage rate surge; Cambodia; Trump indictments; ChatGPT; Massachusetts migrant crisis; Amazon River summit; Y Chromosome sequence; Women's World Cup; Little League World Series; Burning Man protests; Barbie;
August 2023 Hot Topics
Heatwaves are the new norm; Open AI addressing concerns; NATO summit; Updating the citizenship test; Alzheimer's drug; drowning prevention; Bank of American fined; Indian oil payments in Yuan; Threads; Fed raising interest rate; Studies on remote working; G20 debt restructuring; Record unemployment in China; War in Sudan; Coup in Niger; Emmett Till National Monument; Ancient tomb in Spain; Supreme Court ethics; Cell phone bans in classrooms; Split in Methodist Church; Koran burnings; Taliban bans beauty salons; Chandrayaan-3 moonshot; e-Visas; Tour de France; British and US Women's Opens; Wimbledon; Women's World Cup; Actor and screenwriter strike; Dismissal and disappearance of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang;
July 2023 Hot Topics

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