The maternal mortality rate is becoming a growing threat in the United States.

Each year, over 65,000 women in the United States suffer life-threatening complications caused by pregnancy, and over 600 die from pregnancy-related causes.

Five states, a Catholic health network, and other Christian health-care providers sued the federal government hoping to block a new rule that requires doctors to provide gender transition treatments and procedures that conflict with their beliefs.

This is easily one of the most explosive social debates of the Obama administration. The health-care nondiscrimination rules broadly require insurers to cover treatments for trasngender people that they would cover for other patients. Hospitals, physicians and other health-care workers are required to provide treatment, and providers with gender-segregated facilities will have to allow people to use facilities that match their gender identity. This applies to all medical systems that receive federal dollars.

A nationwide prison strike over conditions and wages behind bars, which organizers listed to be the biggest of its kind in United States history, happened on September 9th in at least several correctional facilities across the country.

Prisoners call for a National Strike on the 45th anniversary of Attica. This was a call to Action Against Slavery in America.

Mikey Brannigan, the first American runner with autism, won the paralympic 1500-meter gold medal.

Mikey Brannigan was diagnosed with autism at age 3 and at almost 20 years old, made history. He began running as a member of the Rolling Thunder Special Needs Program, which is a non-profit organization that helps train mentally and physically disables athletes. In 2015, he e was named as Sports Illustrated's February High School Athlete of the Month, and he recently won the paralympic 1500-meter gold medal.

American actress Lindsay Lohan has visited Syrian refugees at an Istanbul hospital and the home of a refugee family from Aleppo.

The 30-year-old actress was accompanied by Turkey's youth and sports deputy minister, Abdurrahim Boynukalin. Boynukalin says that media were not told about the visit ahead of time and that "The important thing is that a Hollywood star take this matter seriously and bring it to the world stage."

President Obama declared the first underwater national park in United States history.

According to National Geographic, "The first national monument in the Atlantic will protect deep canyons along the continental shelf and a chain of extinct undersea volcanoes."

A 12-year-old genius is currently attending Cornell University.

Jeremy Shuler is now one of the youngest freshmen ever to be admitted to an Ivy League school, and, if his brain keeps developing, could be able to solve Einstein-related math equations by the time he is college-aged.

The increase of athletes protesting the National Anthem.

While it has been in the news for a while, the protests are beginning to spread throughout different sports leagues.

Mark Zuckerberg is investing three billion dollars in order to fight diseases.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where the Facebook shares get put into, said it would invest at least three billion dollars over the next decade toward preventing, curing, or managing all diseases by the end of the century. While the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has already made investments in education, the money toward curing diseases representings the group's first major initiative in science.

Scientists have found a 2,000-year-old Hebrew Bible scroll through new scanning technology.

According to The Associated Press, scientists have used innovative scanning technology in order to show a passage from a 2,000-year-old Bible scroll. The passages from the Book of Leviticus offer physical evidence that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.

The United States is trying to find a compromise with Russia in order to reduce violence in Syria.

This would be huge if the compromise is reached, making the relationship between the United States and Russia much better.

The bombings in New York and New Jersey.

At least 29 people were injured in an explosion in New York City. "We have every reason to believe this was an act of terror," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (Democrat) said at a news conference discussing the bombings and the suspects arrest.

Tap water has chromium-6 in it.

Scientists and researchers have found that this chemical, often found in rocks, has been found in tap water across the United States. Around 218 million Americans have water that contains levels of chromium-6 that environmentalists consider dangerous. This is a potentially cancer-causing chemical when it combines with other chemicals found in water.

With all of that happening, we're somehow still worried about what Jennifer Aniston thinks about the Brangelina break up? Let's be honest, these things are all more important than Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Now, you can feel a little bit more educated on current events. Plus, you have some interesting facts to spread around your feed and to maybe get into a discussion with your loved ones about.