“We just need to find that one thing we’re passionate about and solve it.” That simple idea drives 15-year-old Gitanjali Rao of Lone Tree, Colorado, to solve the world’s problems, one by one, while enlisting others to do their part.

Rao is TIME’s “Kid of the Year,” selected from over 5,000 nominees. Interviewed by actress and activist Angelina Jolie, it’s obvious that Rao is extremely intelligent and driven to make the world a better place.

“I was like 10 when I told my parents that I wanted to research carbon nanotube sensor technology at the Denver Water quality research lab, and my mom was like, ‘A what?’” she told Jolie. Turns out, the technology can detect chemicals in water. She also wants to work on a process that can detect bio-contaminants in the water supplies of third-world countries.

The New York Times is reporting that likely President-elect Joe Biden has chosen California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in his administration. Becerra is known for supporting radical pro-abortion policies and for continuing the litigation against investigative journalist David Daleiden
As the article states, Becerra is a choice that only became clear “over the past few days” and it’s a rather surprising one as well.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) went to the Ninth Circuit arguing on behalf of Calvary Chapel of Dayton Valley, a church in Nevada, for something that should be guaranteed in the Constitution: the right to worship.