For over a week, the City of Atlanta's computer systems have been under attack. The computer files have been taken over by criminals who want over $50,000 to allow the computers to work again.
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On Tuesday, American author Jacqueline Woodson won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. This important award comes with the largest prize given for children's books.
Newspapers and governments are looking into the way a company used information from FaceBook to change election results in the US and the UK.
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people protested for stronger gun laws in the US. Over 800 protests were held in cities around the world.
At 10 o'clock on March 14, high school and college students all over the US will leave class for 17 minutes. They are walking out of class as a way to protest against problems caused by guns.
At two o'clock in the morning on Sunday, clocks in the US will turn ahead one hour. This is called Daylight Savings Time. Not everybody thinks it's a good idea.
President Trump has agreed to meet with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. This will be the first time the leaders of those two countries have met. Recently people have worried that the US and North Korea might go to war.
The movie Coco won an Academy Award on Sunday night for the best animated movie. The movie has been very popular in movie theaters, and now it is winning awards.
Public schools in West Virginia have been closed for almost a week because teachers were protesting low pay raises. They have now agreed to go back to work on Thursday.
Strong storms and heavy rains have hit many central US states. The rains have caused the worst floods the area has had in over 20 years.
Mexico's president, Enrique Peña Nieto, was planning to visit the US soon. But after an unhappy phone call with US President Donald Trump, he has decided not to come.