The latest NYS Regents Exam schedule for all exams

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Information about U.S. population, demographics, etc.

Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a national library of factual information; this site covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.

Summaries of Supreme Court cases important for the NYS Regents Exam. Each case has brief listings for the facts of the case, the issue involved, and the majority decision.

Supreme Court decisions and also for other judicial cases/decisions.

Contact your representatives - from the President to local officials - news about recent votes/bills, and get weekly e-mail updates of your representative's votes.

Learn about a nuclear weapon's "zones of destruction" -- choose between a relatively small detonation at earth's surface, which will produce substantial fallout, and an especially destructive large detonation at high altitude.

Tour the Homeland Security Department home page.

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