Current Events Quiz 1

1) The University of Texas is under fire because the two student graduate assistants they hired after no criminal background when they committed a hate crime towards a gay man back in 2004. They declined to comment about Darren Gay's employment but when UT hires employees the get background checks but in some rare cases they will still hire a employee with a criminal background and they "may place certain restrictions on an that employee.." I do believe that they did not know the full story before they hired the two man because if they knew the full story they should not have been aloud to be hired.

2) The deal that was announced on Tuesday appeared to be among the largest settlements in police death cases in recent years and came just days before a judge is set to decide to change the venue for the trial for six officers charged in Gary's death. The mayor supported the deal because they said that the settlement was "in the best interest of the city and will avoid costly litigation" There are also no current pending cases in Baltimore mentioned in the article.

3) Vice Chancellor Sig-mar Gabriel of Germany announced that "the migrant flow - many from war-battered Iraq and Syria - is only escalating amid a humanitarian crisis that has sharply tested European cooperation and fundamental policies such as open borders." Though some observers criticized the policy because they were offering benefits so lucrative that they had become an incentive for asylum seekers to risk their lives over land and sea. German leaders responded to this criticism by announcing a reduction in cash handouts for asylum seekers during their initial months of processing instead saying it would offer them more food stamps and in-kind aid. The larger crisis that led to Germany's actions are migrants.

4) Ted Cruz has invited Donald Trump to the Capital Hill rally for protesting the proposed nuclear agreement with Iran. Cruz is unlike the other republicans because he wanted to attract attention to the objections to the "catastrophic" deal, he did this because Trump gets a lot of attention in the media. Though Cruz says that Trump is not one of his standard targets because he has never held office.

5) On Tuesday Hillary Clinton apologized for her use of a private email account as secretary of state declining to express remorse in connection with the controversy that has shaken her presidential campaign. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chair man Ron Johnson wrote to Bryan Pagliano, who was maintaining Clinton's personal server while she was secretary of state to recover and see the emails that were sent. Clinton's earlier mistake that she did not say was a mistake was that she used the private email system when asked directly by NBC News.