March 13th 2020, is a day Americans alike will remember. The deadly COVID-19 virus crept up on the United States from Wuhan, China. President Trump declared a national emergency over the coming virus while...
On August 26th, 2021 students at Thomas Edison High School in Fairfax County staged an in-school demonstration to call attention to what they perceive as “unjust and uneven enforcement” of the FCPS...
On Tuesday, January 22, 2019, the Supreme Court voted 5-4, in favor of President Trump, to ban transgender people from serving in the United States military. This decision is a revision of a policy that...
It seems that all the stories we hear from the news are sad and hopeless, but this story however, has a happy ending. A tragic camp fire in California, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, was said...
Around 12:30 A.M. on December 1st, 52-year-old Jacquelyn Smith was fatally stabbed in Baltimore, Maryland after giving a woman who held a sign saying, “Please Help Feed my Baby” money.
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On Monday afternoon at the Mexican-American border, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) fired tear gas at groups of migrants trying to cross the border. CBP cited that the border was becoming overwhelmed...
The moment we have all been waiting for to solve our sleep deprivation problems: the end of daylight savings for the year. This Sunday, November 4th, we were greeted with an extra hour of sleep as the...
Thanks to the “Educational Opportunity Tax Credit," Maine can help pay off your student loans. This program allows your student loan payment to be subtracted from your taxes. For example, someone...
The parents of Rosalie Avila, a 13-year-old girl, were left devastated after they found their daughter dead in her bedroom. She committed suicide after being bullied at her middle school in California,...
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On September 28, McDonald's announced that it would be removing artificial preservatives, flavours, and colours from their seven classic burgers: the hamburger,...
Imagine: the clock strikes twice at 2 AM as you look at the endless piles of homework on your desk that you haven’t even touched yet. You know that all the assignments are due tomorrow, but you’re...
Summer has ended and school has just begun. Over the past couple of weeks students across the country have headed back to school, and with that came the dreaded reading assignments. Ironically enough,...