I learned many valuable things from exploring the two websites. I learned that the primary concern right now for people in India is political corruption. The people are upset at some recent decisions made by the supreme court. A government official said that in order to improve people's feelings about the government, voter registration must increase and substantial police and judicial reforms must take place.
I also learned about a war in Bastar, which is in central India. The dispute is over the ownership of natural resources. From PBS, I learned that India invented the decimal system with zero.

http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/unsettling-orders/article5233001.ece?homepage=true
http://www.frontline.in/social-issues/the-war-in-bastar/article4799755.ece

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-republicans-2014/index.html?hpt=po_c2

Government shutdown began with the Republicans tying funding. Then talks about various Republican potential candidates and the struggles they may face. The Democrats are unified, whereas there are too many disagreements in the Republican party.

This article essentially talks about how the Republican party does not have valid reasons for blocking the ACA. The article says that Obama thinks the Republicans are more worried about the ACA working (and them being wrong) than they are about the ACA causing corruption.

This article strikes me for numerous different reasons. First of all, its incredible that scientists are able to determine how much nerve agent the rockets in the attack contained by simply analyzing pictures that were posted online. Second of all, the article still pointed out different opinions on who conducted the attack. One scientist said that both the rebels and the Syrian government were capable of obtaining such chemicals, while other scientists argued that only the government would be able to obtain such materials