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President Biden announces that Dr. Monica Bertagnolli will be the next director of the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.). Bertagnolli has previously headed the National Cancer Institute and is herself battling early stage breast cancer. She will be just the second woman to hold this position.…

In order to win Turkey's presidential election, incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan must win with a majority. However, after one of the four main candidates in the election dropped out, the likelihood that his main competitor Kemal Kilicdaroglu will win that majority increased. Making this election even…

President Tayyip Erdogan has a new opponent in the form of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who leads Turkey's opposition party. Kilicdaroglu is campaigning on the return of democracy and promises to limit the power of the Presidency that Erdogan has significantly bolstered during his tenure. He is preaching…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who came to power after a poor earthquake response in 1999, assured the Turkish people that the upcoming May Presidential election will go on as planned. While Erdogan has admitted to a lack of adequate response, it is clouded with a consistent re-emphasis on the…