Category: National and Global News

Controversial Video Creates National Outrage

by Kellie Johnson ’22 News Staff On Friday, January 18, just outside the Lincoln Memorial, a standoff between a high school boy from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky and a Native American elder went viral.  The video is sparking reactions from the rest of the country.  The standoff began when a group of high […]

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Fighting in the Federal Government Continues: An Overview of the Government Shutdown

by Kyle Burgess ’21 News Staff This past Saturday, January 11, marked the third week since President Trump’s refusal to sign a spending bill negotiated by Republicans and Democrats that would continue current border-security funding without the construction of a border wall on the United State’s southern border.Currently, this is the longest-lasting government shutdown in […]

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Jayme Closs Found Three Months After Kidnapping

by Thomas Edwards ’20 News Co-Editor Jayme Closs, a 13-year-old from Barron, Wisconsin, was reported missing on October 15, 2018, the night that both of her parents were found dead in her home.  On the night of Oct. 15, Jake Patterson, 21, pulled up outside of the Closs home. When James Closs, Jayme’s father, went […]

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Remembering George H.W. Bush: 41st President of the United States Passes Away

by Hannah Langley ’21 News Co-Editor The death of a prominent national figure, especially a former President of the United States, is always a tragic event.  On Friday, November 30, George H.W. Bush, the 41st president and father of the 43rd, passed away late in the night at the age of 94. Bush was diagnosed […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: Looking Back on the Year’s Biggest Events

by Kelly Marcela ’21 News Staff As the calendars turn to December, people reflect on the past 12 months, and it seems like every year people say it has been “the most eventful year” in history. This may be a bold claim, but 2018 definitely had enough events to fill the news. Politics always seem […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: California Copes with Destructive Wildfires

by Malena Aylwin ’22 News Staff In the past 13 months, California has seen two of its largest wildfires in terms of acreage, two of its most destructive blazes in terms of structures lost, and the deadliest fire on record, which has claimed at least 88 lives. California is battling around 17 substantial fires including […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: California Copes with Destructive Wildfires

by Malena Aylwin ’22 News Staff In the past 13 months, California has seen two of its largest wildfires in terms of acreage, two of its most destructive blazes in terms of structures lost, and the deadliest fire on record, which has claimed at least 88 lives. California is battling around 17 substantial fires including […]

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Midterm Election Results

By Micaela Freeman ’20 History was made on Tuesday during this year’s midterm election. A record number of women were elected and will be heading to Congress in this new term.  Colorado’s newly elected governor, Jared Polis, is the first openly gay governor serving in the United States.  Due to the overwhelming majority of Democrats […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: Anti-Semitic Shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue

By Malena Aylwin ’22 A mass shooting occurred in Pittsburgh on the morning of October 27, 2018. While Shabbat morning services were being held at the Tree of Life Synagogue, 11 individuals were shot to death, and seven were injured.  The victims included Irving Younger, Melvin Wax, Rose Mallinger, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Jerry Rabinowitz, […]

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Bursting the PC Bubble: Government Officials Sent Mysterious Pipe Bombs

by Thomas Edwards ’20 Former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Representative Maxine Waters, and former CIA Director and MSNBC contributor John Brennan are all among the list of names who were targets of pipe bombs last Wednesday and Thursday, October 24 and 25.  The pipe bombs were sent in the mail […]

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