On January 27, filmmaker Steven Spielberg delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations General Assembly, which centered on the theme 'Journeys Through the Holocaust."The ceremony also featured a speech by Rena Finder, a Holocaust survivor who had been part of Schindler's list. Spielberg's address coincided with the 20th anniversary of the USC Shoah Foundation, which he founded in 1994.
Reuters said an internal investigation that cleared New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on involvement in the George Washington Bridge lane closures did not access communications and records of the governor's former aides, of whom one of them said in an email about deliberately causing traffic in Fort Lee.
Dorothy Height, an icon for civil rights as well as women's rights, was celebrated with a Google doodle on Monday on what would have been her 102nd birthday. She died in 2010.
The Republican party is threatened with the implementation of the Common Core Standards Initiative, which aims to standardize education policies across schools in the US, The Associated Press said.
