The Supreme Court - not elected by the voters - delivered two highly controversial decisions in less than a week; the rulings have made the Court’s popularity sink to 20% and many have commented that they show the distance between politics and real life

A decade after the Mojave Desert saw last significant bloom, the Death Valley - America’s hottest and driest place - is enjoying an exceptional flowering of wild flora and desert gold, the park’s most common flower, due to unusually wet fall last year

An ongoing investigation by the US military admits responsibility for the missile strike that hit an elementary school in Teheran, considered one of the deadliest single military errors in decades: according to Iranian officials it claimed 175 lives

US Hockey Team won a historic gold medal at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics defeating Canada 2-1 in overtime; Jack Hughes’ goal gave the team its first victory since the 1980 Lake Placid Games

President Trump posted a video on his social media that included a portrayal of the Obama couple as apes; condemned by critics and some allies, was then removed; the only Black Republican senator called it the "most racist thing" ever from the White House