In August 2012, two high school football players from Steubenville, Ohio were arrested for raping a 16 year old girl who was greatly impaired by alcohol. Although the girl never said no, she also was too drunk to say yes. The boys were easily figured out from sending pictures over twitter and text messages, causing the mother of the victim to realize what had happened. The boys claimed they were innocent and the girl was aware what happened, she just didn’t remember the next morning. This past weekend, the two boys were found guilty. Trent Mays will stay in a juvenile detention center for at least two years; one for rape and one for distributing child pornography. Ma’lik Richmond will be there for one year, on a charge of rape. The decision has been rather controversial. Some believe the punishment was too lenient, some believe it was good, and others believe the boys were wronged. The belief that the boys may have been wronged has caused much controversy, especially because CNN stated that it was hard to watch these boys have their promising lives taken away from them. The reason that this is believed by some is because the girl may have been okay with what was happening at the time, and just does not remember what she decided to do the previous night. 

The movie Argo has causes uproar from Iran. The production is based on the on the rescue of the U.S. diplomats who were taken in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. The movie was directed by Ben Affleck, who also stared in the movie. Ben Affleck was given a Golden Globe as a director. The movie was also given the prize of “best drama movie.” Iran first was going to make a movie response to Argo. Instead, they are now choosing to sue Hollywood and the filmmakers who helped with the film. They also plan to fund a movie called “The General Staff.” The movie will be about 20 hostages from America. Press Tv has stated, “"The Iranophobic American movie attempts to describe Iranians as overemotional, irrational, insane, and diabolical while at the same, the CIA agents are represented as heroically patriotic." 

                  Just recently the TSA has decided that they will once again allow pocket knives and small knives onboard. This is the first time that this will happen since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Federal air marshals and flight attendants have asked the TSA to reconsider their decision and are very outraged by the decision. It is believed that flight attendants will then become sitting ducks and that the TSA has not learned anything from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The knives which will be allowed will not be able to have a blade longer that 2.36 inches or 4 centimeters. At the time of the 9/11 attacks there were knives allowed that were up to 4 inches long. There are other rules which state “the blade can be no more than 1/2 inch at its widest point, it cannot have a locking or fixed blade and cannot have a molded grip. Box cutters and razor blades are still not allowed inside the passenger cabin.” They have also decided that billard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, and golf clubs will be allowed as carry on items. These are items which all were prohibited in the bast.  People think that because all of the advancements of security on the plane, that prohibiting such items is no longer necessary. It is now much harder to enter the cockpit. There are also air marshals on some flights and people are more educated about terrorism and what to look out for. The head of the air marshals says that he is “appalled” and that he has received about 100 calls from the other marshals who think that this decision is completely wrong. The new laws will put air marshals, federal law agents, flight attendants, pilots, and passengers at a much larger risk. There are unions of flight attendants who are also voicing their anger about the new laws. 

For many years now there has been a large war on drugs streaming through US and Mexico. It has been hard for US and Mexican authorities to stop the drug trafficking, and the new creative inventions have been making it even harder. People have used human bodies, tunnels, cars and boats to smuggle drugs from Mexico into the US. The newest idea to get these drugs across is cannons. People would fire drugs from the cannon in Mexico and people in America would then come retrieve the drugs. The DEA and other authority figures are suprised by the new creative inventions that smugglers have come up with. The cannon can fire bags and cans over the Colorado River from Mexico. There has only been one cannon that has been confiscated, but they would not be suprised to find more in the future. They believe that the cannon was firing these bags to Arizona. If the smuggelers and other people continue to come up with new ideas, it will be even harder for authorties to end this drug war that has been going on for quite sometime now.