LEXINGTON COUNTY, South Carolina - Twenty one people were fired from a South Carolina company after taking part in the Day Without Immigrants Protest. The movement closed restaurants and shops across the country to show the contributions immigrants have on the American workforce.

WASHINGTON -- A senior Trump administration official was fired following criticism in a private speech of President Donald Trump's policies and his inner circle of advisers. Craig Deare, whom Trump appointed a month ago to head the National Security Council's Western Hemisphere division, was on Friday escorted out of the Executive Office Building, where he worked in Washington.

Months before the 2016 U.S. presidential election took place, Dan P. McAdams, a psychology professor at Northwestern University, set out to better understand Donald Trump, and how his personality might influence the way he would govern if he were ever to be elected.

Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress | Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital find that participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress.

The Government has been accused of trying to bury a major report about the potential dangers of global warming to Britain - including the doubling of the deaths during heatwaves, a "significant risk" to supplies of food and the prospect of infrastructure damage from flooding.

The company routinely weeds out "bad ads." Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.

An interesting medieval European religion I found out about called Cathar. Apparently, it was a splinter off of Christianity and they held beliefs like gender equality and they tolerated homosexuality. People so long ago accepted things that we are still fighting for today.

Interesting article that explores consciousness and how we perceive it.

Nearly half of all Donald Trump voters believe a widely debunked conspiracy theory claiming that Hillary Clinton is involved in a child sex ring run out of a popular Washington, D.C. pizzeria, a recent poll suggests. I thought that this article was interesting because it shows how misinformed people are, possibly due to fake news, just like we discussed.

This article discusses many of the similarities that America has with Nazi Germany. I thought that this was interesting to read because it comes from the point of view from someone that was actually there.

A majority of Americans lack confidence in Donald Trump's ability to handle an international crisis, according to a new poll. It also found 47 per cent doubted his ability to use military force wisely. Ahead of the President-elect's inauguration on 20 January, 44 per cent believed him to be incapable of averting major scandals during his time in office. I thought that this was interesting because despite many people's doubts, he was still elected president.

The history of science has been distorted by a longstanding conviction that correct theories about nature are always the most elegant ones.

Not much is definitively proven about consciousness, the awareness of one's existence and surroundings, other than that it's somehow linked to the brain. But theories as to how, exactly, grey matter generates consciousness are challenged when a fully-conscious man is found to be missing most of his brain.

Schools face relentless pressure to up their offerings in the STEM fields-science, technology, engineering, and math. Few are making the case for philosophy. Maybe they should. Nine- and 10-year-old children in England who participated in a philosophy class once a week over the course of a year significantly boosted their math and literacy skills.