United States

If you wear eyeglasses you'll need to take them off for your passport photo starting November 1. In an effort to reduce the large number of problems associated with identification concerns, the U.S. Department of State is changing regulations for the photos - requiring applicants to remove their corrective frames.

Here's a factoid that will make you say "what!":  More than 1.1-million people in the United States don't have a toilet in their homes.  Of the 50 states, Alaska garners the title as the state with the highest number of people who don't use a toilet;  12-percent of Alaskans utilize an outhouse when nature calls.

The Presidential Election of 2016 will probably be remembered for many things;  one of those elements will definitely be the fact that this election cycle features the largest number of Catholic candidates ever.  Out of all of the currently-announced candidates, seven of them have declared the Catholic faith as their religious affiliation.

Here's another thing that might affect you because the government shut down. When sending in your tax return, it may be delayed by one or two weeks, the Internal Revenue Service announced.

My Brother in law moved from Great Britain to America and wanted to be a citizen of the United States so he had to take a naturalization test. He once asked me some of the questions and I was embarrassed that I didn't know some of them.

It looks like tomato prices won't be rising!  Leaders from the United States and Mexico have reached an agreement to continue their 16 year-old trade policies.