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 […]
by Kelly Martella ’21 News Staff For the 35 days the government was shutdown, there seemed to be no end in sight. However, in a surprising turn of events, it was announced on Jan. 25 that the government would be reopening—sort of. Last Friday, President Trump signed a bill that would temporarily reopen the federal […]
by Malena Aylwin ’22 News Staff Women and their allies turned out in cities across the country this past Saturday, January 19, marking the third consecutive year of the Women’s March. Although there were controversies present, many demonstrators said they recognized that the movement was bigger than a few individual leaders, and focused their attention […]