Wednesday, August 29, 2018

VIDEO: President Trump recently proposed cuts to the Clean Power Plan. The Obama-era plan aims to generate electricity with less coal and more renewable energy and slash carbon emissions from the nation’s power plants by about one-third by 2030. Trump’s proposal was criticized by environmentalists but applaudedin West Virginia, where coal mining jobs are vital to the economy .
ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
On August 28, 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gives his famous “I have a dream” speech on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Speaking before more than 200,000 people from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King called for an end to racism and for the establishment of equal rights for African Americans. The speech was an inflection point for the civil rights movement and is considered one of the best American speeches of the 20th century.
VIDEO: A U.N. fact-finding mission has recommended that Myanmar’s top military official and several of his commanders be investigated and prosecuted for the crime of genocide for their alleged role in carrying out atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims .
Inspired by his mother to pursue a career in dress design , a dressmaker from the Philippines has created a fabulous wedding dress made from toilet paper.
VIDEO: Indonesia produces an estimated 1.3 million tons of plastic every day , much of which ends up in the oceans, clogging the ecosystem and killing wildlife. Last year the country pledged to cut the amount it throws into the sea by 70 percent by 2025.
Sufis, celebrating their return to the Iraqi city of Mosul after the overthrow of Islamic State, are performing their rituals in Ali Kasnazani Takya — a new convent to hold Sufi ceremonies after most of their places of worship were destroyed during the brutal 6-month-old campaign to oust IS from Mosul .

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