Summer Current Events - Highlights (and Lowlights)

It seems that we had an exceptionally busy news cycle this summer.  I thought it might be helpful to provide reminders of some major news stories from the past couple of months.  Although the list below is NOT all inclusive, consider the following as you prepare for the current events quiz on Monday:

• Major US Supreme Court decisions in June
• Leaker reveals NSA surveillance of US citizens and foreigners and international response
• Trial of Bradley Manning 
• Protests in Turkey, Brazil, and France
• North Korea weapons and relations with South Korea
• Evolving situations in Syria and Egypt
• G-8 conference
• US diplomacy with Taliban
• Train and airplane disasters 
• Malala Yousef promotes education for girls
• School children die from free lunches
• Prison breaks
• Prince George
• Travels of Pope Francis
• Terror warning prompts significant US response
• Russia passes restrictive law that draws international response
• NASDAQ offline
• Trials for Nidal Hassan & Robert Bales

If you feel that I've forgotten any major news stories, please feel free to add a comment to this post. Don't forget, if you bring a current events "journal" to class on the first day, you may use this on the quiz!