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The United States just barely missed its refugee limit for the 2016 fiscal year. The U.S. closed out 12 months of debate over refugee admissions policies just five people short of the administration’s target of 85,000. It’s the closest the refugee program has come to meeting the presidentially established ceiling in more than two decades. Here’s where the refugees came from and what’s on tap for next year.

QUICK TAKE VIDEO: Always on a Tuesday… There are very specific reasons why Americans vote in national elections on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November. Those reasons involve religion, transportation, and the invention of the telegraph.

The most insignificant office ever. That’s how John Adams, the very first U.S. vice president, who served under George Washington, referred to the vice presidency. However, over the years, the role of the person who’s a heartbeat away from the presidency has grown in importance.

The vice presidential candidates take center stage tomorrow when they are scheduled to debate in the Virginia town of Farmville, one of the places where the modern civil rights movement began. In 1951, tired of worn-out hand-me-downs from students at the ‘white’ high school, African-American students went on strike, demanding to be treated the same as white students.

Harvard hits the Big Apple: If having a degree from Harvard isn’t enough to launch you into the real world, the Ivy League school now has a startup studio in New York City to help alumni who are trying to start their own businesses.

‘Battle of the Trench.’ Staggered by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and battlefield defeats by Iraqi and Kurdish forces, the Islamic State is resorting to an ancient defense strategy ahead of a massive battle over control of Mosul.

A new theme park in Iran teaches children how to fight in battle and fire weapons at its perceived Western enemies. The ‘Park of the Revolution’s Children’ trains young people to shoot at virtual fixed and moving targets including some decorated with the U.S. flag.

It’s not quite like cutting off your nose to spite your face but not everyone is on board with Zimbabwe’s plan to save the endangered species from extinction by dehorning its rhinos to discourage poachers.