by Brian Garvey ’20 News Staff On what should have been a day of rest and worship, a devastating wave of attacks in Sri Lanka left more than 250 people dead and hundreds more injured on Easter Sunday. By Sunday afternoon, there were a total of eight explosions that tore through churches and hotels across […]
by Thomas Edwards ’20 News Staff Last Tuesday, April 2, in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park bordering the Congo, American tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott, Canadian tourists Martin and Barbel Jurrius, and their Congolese safari guide Jean-Paul Mirenge Remezo were held at gunpoint by four armed men, according to Ugandan police. “The unknown gunmen put the […]
By Maura Campbell ’22 News Staff In recent weeks, Robert Mueller completed his investigation of President Donald Trump. Although the full Mueller Report has yet to be released to the public, Attorney General William Barr released the Barr Report—a four-page summary of the Mueller investigation’s findings—on Sunday, March 24. The Barr Report explains the results […]
Maura Campbell ’22 News Staff On Sunday, March 10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed soon after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board. Flight 302, which was bound for Nairobi, Kenya, sent a distress signal shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Within six minutes of takeoff, the plane hit the ground. Many details […]
Kellie Johnson ’22 News Staff On Friday, March 15, 2019, the world became witness to a devastating tragedy in Christchurch, New Zealand when two shooters killed a mass of 49 citizens at two separate mosques. A 28 year-old man named Brenton Tarrant, along with four other suspects, have been charged for this mass murder. The […]
Kelly Martella ’21 News Staff On Feb. 27, United States President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un of the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea met for a summit in Hanoi, Vietnam. This was the second meeting between the two leaders following the historic Singapore Summit in June 2018. The first meeting marked a new […]
By Malena Aylwin ’22 Last Friday, President Trump declared the situation on the southern border of the United States to be a national emergency. Trump announced the national crisis to obtain the billions of dollars that Congress would not approve to build a border wall, generating a highly charged constitutional crisis. The National Emergencies Act of […]
by Kyle Burgess ’21 News Staff On Tuesday, February 5, President Donald Trump spoke before Congress and the viewing American public in his annual State of the Union Address on Capitol Hill. The address was originally intended to be delivered a week prior during the time of the federal government shutdown, but Speaker of […]
by Margaret Mahoney ’21 Student Congress Publicity Student Congress met on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 and welcomed two guest speakers. The first speaker was a representative from the Rhode Island Blood Center who spoke to Congress about the critical need for blood and the blood drive happening on campus Tuesday and Wednesday. The second guest […]
Brian Garvey ’20 News Staff Last week, the U.S. was hit by a wave of record-setting low temperatures across the country, causing widespread disruption and disfunction. This was the result of a relatively common weather phenomenon called a “Polar Vortex.” A Polar Vortex is a wide expanse of swirling cold air that forms in polar […]