QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"They told me: ‘We are going to play a game, Little Rafael. It is called electrocution（電気椅子処刑）.’"
RAFAEL GONZÁLEZ, a teenager who was taken by soldiers for torture and questioning in response to rising crime in Barlovento, a district east of Venezuela’s capital.
DECEMBER 30, 2016
（０）President Obama Punishes Russia, at Last EDITORIAL
No, Mr. Trump, Americans are not going to forget about Russian hacking.
（１）Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking
The Obama administration said it was tossing out 35 intelligence operatives and imposing sanctions on Russian intelligence services and officers.
（２）Two Russian Compounds（合成する）, Caught Up in History’s Echoes
East Coast retreats（引きこもる） for diplomats were seen by the Obama administration as beachside（浜辺の） spy nests（巣）, and all Russians were ordered out.
（３）How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers for Its Cyberwar
The government scouted a wide range of civilian programmers in recent years, even criminals, while expanding its cyberwarfare abilities.
（４）A Majority Agreed She Was Raped by a Stanford Football Player. That Wasn’t Enough. フットボール選手にレイプされた。でもその選手は罰せられない。
Stanford has an uncommonly high bar（適用免除） for sexual assault cases, so the player was never punished despite two panels ruling in favor of the accuser.
（５）In a Savage（残忍な） Year in Venezuela, Even Crime Fighters Are Killers
The deaths of people arrested in anti-crime raids（急襲） point to an alarming aspect in the wave of violence gripping the nation.
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60-Second Civics: Episode 2750, How the Depression Changed Government
The Great Depression changed the relationship between the federal government and state governments.
What act, passed in 1935, changed the relationship between federal and state governments?
a. The Grant-in-Aid Act 補助金
b. The Social Security Act
c. The Homestead Act 西部開拓を進める自営農地法、1862年制定
d. The Depression Act
Bravo! Choice b is correct.
