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Massive wildfires swept through parts of California in November. They destroyed tens of thousands of homes and left many people dead or missing. On November 8, fire broke out in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in Northern California.…
American voters turned out in unusually high numbers for the 2018 midterm elections. The result: Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives while Republicans maintained their hold on the Senate. Power in Congress is now split between…
In the midterm elections, 36 states elected a governor. At press time, Democrats had won 16 governorships. Seven were elected in states that currently have Republican governors. But Republicans are projected to win in Florida and Ohio. Those are states…
The chalk-white bluffs rose 300 feet high. To explorer Meriwether Lewis, they looked like the ruins of an ancient city. “It seemed as if those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end,” Lewis wrote in a journal from…
On Veterans Day 2015, Preston Sharp, then 10 years old, went to visit his grandfather’s grave at a cemetery in Redding, California. George Sharp was a U.S. Navy veteran. Preston placed flowers and a U.S. flag on his grave. He…
On November 6, Americans will vote in midterm elections. Midterms are held about halfway through a president’s four-year term. The purpose is to elect members of Congress. This year, there are also state and local elections. The midterms will decide…
I will never forget the first time I cast a ballot. I was 19 years old. I voted in the 2006 election for my next U.S. senator. Casting my vote inspired me: I realized I was helping to make our…
Nate Silver is a statistician and writer. He founded the website FiveThirtyEight, where he analyzes polls to predict election outcomes. TFK Kid Reporter Josh Lee spoke with Silver about what the polls can tell us about the upcoming midterm elections.…
A new study shows that Pando, one of the largest organisms on Earth, is shrinking. Pando lives in Fishlake National Forest, in Richfield, Utah. Its name is Latin for “I spread.” The group of 47,000 aspen trees has a single…
Hurricane Michael tore into the Florida Panhandle on October 10. It left a trail of destruction as it traveled inland to Georgia and up the East Coast to Virginia. At press time, officials confirmed that at least 26 people were…
