Thomas Edwards ’20 News Staff For nearly a month, the Amazon rainforest, the largest rainforest in the world, has had several thousand wildfires burning through it. Wildfires are generally common in the Amazon during the dry season, which usually runs from August through mid-November. However, according to the data from Brazil’s National Space Research Institute […]
by Kelly Martella ’21 News Staff Many students spend time traveling during the summer vacation; others continue their studies and take courses during the break. Maymesters provide students the opportunity to do both of these things — all within the first few weeks of summer. This year, Providence College offered two programs — one in […]
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 […]