Category: National and Global News

Attempting to Get Vaccines and Stimulus Checks for All: Biden Administration Plans on Rapid COVID Relief

by Sydney Olinger ’23 News Staff March 11 marks the one-year anniversary of the nationwide shutdown that was enacted due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. A year ago today, no one could have predicted that our country would still have increasing cases and harsh COVID-19 regulations. In his first prime-time address to American citizens, […]

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Looking Back on BLM One Year Later: Recent News on Breonna Taylor and George Floyd’s Families

by Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman from Louisville, KY, was shot and killed by police officers while asleep in bed. Taylor’s death, along with the deaths of other Black people, such as George Floyd in May 2020, contributed to the Black Lives Matter movement protests […]

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Biden Takes Limited Action Against Saudi Prince: Decision Stirs Controversy Within Biden’s Own Party

by Eileen Cooney ’23 News Staff On Friday, Feb. 26, the Biden administration released a report implicating Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi was a 59-year-old U.S. resident and an outspoken critic of the Saudi royal family who was killed and later dismembered inside the Saudi consulate.   […]

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Dark Storms Over the Capitol: Policing and Democracy After the Jan. 6 Insurrection

by Addison Wakelin ’22 Assistant News Editor On March 2, the Board of Programmers and the Board of Multicultural Student Affairs hosted a panel of Providence College faculty to discuss the topic of the double standards in protest policing and the implications of the Jan. 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol Building. The faculty panel […]

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Lone Star State Besieged by Bad Weather: Biden Declares Major Disaster in Texas

by Eileen Cooney ’23 News Staff On Feb. 20, President Joseph Biden declared a major disaster for the majority of the state of Texas in the wake of a severe winter storm that left most of the state without electricity and killed 28 people. In recent days, more than 14 million Texans have been under […]

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Welcome, Folks, to the Biden Administration: A Closer Look at the First 100 Days in Office

by Katherine Morrissey ’22 News Staff Joseph Biden, Jr., ran a successful campaign grounded on a platform that aligned itself with the Democratic Party’s core beliefs, ultimately resulting in his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States. The significance of an administration’s first 100 days in office dates back to the incredible feats […]

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The Painful Transition of Power: Mixed Emotions as New Presidential Administration Takes Office

by Katherine Morrissey ’22 News Staff On Jan. 20, at 12 p.m., Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. While his inauguration marked the end of President Donald Trump’s four-year term and an unprecedented election cycle, it also came at the end of a historic month of […]

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Helping to Turn the Tide: First COVID-19 Vaccinations Flood Ocean State

by Eileen Cooney ’23 News Staff On Feb. 1, Rhode Island reported a 2.7  percent COVID-19 positivity rate, its lowest since October, with 158 new cases and 13  fatalities. The decrease in the positivity rate is due to a combination of factors, but many health officials are pointing to the nearly 77,000 first doses of […]

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From Scranton, PA to Pennsylvania Avenue: Biden, Harris Enjoy Historic Victory

by Eileen Cooney ’23 News Staff On Saturday, Nov. 7, after  four long days of counting votes from key swing states including Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, presidential candidate Joseph Biden obtained 290 electoral votes, surpassing the 270 threshold needed to take the White House. Early Friday morning, Joe Biden took the lead […]

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No Love Lost in Nashville: Trump and Biden Spar in Final Presidential Debate

By: Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor On Thursday, Oct. 22, the United States waited in anticipation for the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Compared to the first debate, which CBS News called “a chaotic series of bitter exchanges and name-calling,” this debate actually presented arguments and was […]

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