1. More People and Events
in the News

2. Mike Pence He was a US Representative from Indiana, 2000 - 2013
Governor of Indiana,
Vice president – elect, 2016
Mike Pence
Rule on names?

3. Tim Kaine He was Governor of Virginia, 2006 - 2010
US Senator from Virginia, present
Democrat VP candidate, 2016
Tim Kaine

4. George W Bush Born 1946 in Connecticut Governor of Texas, 1995 - 2000
Son of a US President
POTUS
George W Bush
SCOTUS ?

5. Michelle Obama Born Michelle Robinson, 1964, Chicago
FLOTUS
Michelle Obama

6. Donald Trump Born in New York City, 1946
Billionaire real estate developer and host of The Apprentice
Will become the oldest and wealthiest person
to become US President in January, 2017
Donald Trump

7. Mitch McConnell Rand Paul
Majority leader of the US Senate, 2015 –present.
Senior US senator from Kentucky.
Mitch McConnell
2016 US presidential candidate from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Junior US senator from Kentucky.
Rand Paul

8. Hillary Clinton First lady of Arkansas, 1983 - 1992
First lady of the US,
US Senator from NY State,
US Secretary of State,
US Presidential candidate, 2008 and 2016
Hillary Clinton

9. Bernie Sanders U.S. Representative and Senator from Vermont since 1991
Political independent, identifying himself as a
democratic socialist
Ran a strong primary campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016
Bernie Sanders

10. Green Party Libertarian Party NEWS ITEM
Dr. Jill Stein ran for president for the
Green Party
Gary Johnson ran for president for the
Libertarian Party

11. Electoral College Russia MAIN NEWS STORIES 2016
U.S. Presidential election
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but Donald Trump
won the vote in the
Electoral College
US intelligence agencies believe that which nation interfered with our election?
Russia

12. She is the most decorated American gymnast in history, leading the US team at the Rio Olympics
Simone Biles

13. Bob Dylan He is an American songwriter, singer, artist, and writer
Born Robert Zimmerman, Minnesota, 1941
Folk singer, civil rights activist
Awarded 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature
Bob Dylan

14. Dakota Access Pipeline
2016 NEWS ITEM
Project blocked by protesters of the Lakota Sioux Tribe on the Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota
Dakota Access Pipeline

16. NEWS ITEM
A brutal civil war has been going on for the past five years
in the mideastern nation of
Syria
A siege and constant bombardment has killed many civilians
in the city of
Aleppo

18. Lived
He was a Supreme Court Justice,
Antonin Scalia

19. Lived
He was born Cassius Clay, Louisville Kentucky
Won boxing’s heavyweight title three times, first in 1964
Converted to Islam; refused to serve in Vietnam;
stripped of boxing titles
Muhammad Ali

20. Lived
He was a US Senator from Ohio,
American aviator, engineer, astronaut 
Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2012
First American to orbit the Earth, 1962
John Glenn

21. Lived
She was born Anne Robbins; her stage name was Nancy Davis
First lady of California,
FLOTUS,
Nancy Reagan

22. Lived 1924 – 2016
He was a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician,
poet, novelist, and painter
Wrote Hallelujah, used in Shrek, covered by dozens of artists
Leonard Cohen