Fast News

By ABBY FOSTER ‘19 and CHARLOTTE KANE ‘19

June 3rd: The Volcán de Fuego volcano erupts in Guatemala. At least 159 people die.

June 12th: President Trumps meets with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in historic summit in Singapore.

June 23rd-July 10: Thai soccer team of twelve boys and a coach get trapped two miles in a cave. The long rescue operation is a success.

June 24th: Saudi Arabia finally allows women to drive, following through on the promise they made in September 2017 to abolish the longstanding policy which prevented women drivers.
June 28th: Gunman kills five and injures two at the Annapolis, MD office of the newspaper The Capital.

July 11-July 12: NATO summit in Brussels, with President Trump calling for NATO countries to increase their military spending by four percent. Leaders end up recommitting to increase their spending by two percent, as was agreed to in 2014.

July 13th: Trump visits London where a crowd greets his arrival with protests and an unflattering balloon shaped like Trump as a baby.

July 15th: After an exciting month-long tournament, France wins the 2018 World Cup.

July 16th: Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki summit, where Trump drew bipartisan criticism for his apparent denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

July 29th: Ahed Tamimi, a seventeen year old Palestinian activist, is released after serving eight months in prison for slapping an Israeli soldier in 2017.

August 14th: The Grand Jury releases a report that catalogues 70 years of abuse from over 300 priests in Pennsylvania. This abuse was covered up by bishops and other leaders of the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.

August 16th: Aretha Franklin, an American actress, activist, songwriter, and the acclaimed “queen of soul,” dies at age 76.

August 20th: Silent Sam, a statue of a Confederate soldier which stood on the University of North Carolina campus since 1913, was toppled by protestors after a night of “Topple Silent Sam” protest events.

August 25th: Vietnam War hero, Arizona senator, and former Republican presidential nominee John McCain dies from brain cancer at age 81.