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By Nick Stolte || Staff Writer President Trump has announced significant tariffs on both steel and aluminum in a move meant to fulfill early campaign promises to enforce strict trade…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer In August President Trump issued a memorandum banning transgender people from military service. This proposal, which was announced via Twitter, would prohibit the admission…
By Ruby Van Dyk || Staff Writer Last week, President Trump made a speech in which he disavowed the Iran Nuclear Deal, accusing Iran of spreading “death, destruction and chaos…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor The Republican establishment was dealt a blow in Alabama last Tuesday evening after Senator Luther Strange lost his bid to represent the state of…
By Ruby Van Dyk || Contributing Writer This week, the 193 Members of The United Nations General Assembly met in order to begin their annual session. The UN General Assembly…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer In what should be a surprise to no one, Senate Republicans have done the unprecedented and used the “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer Whether we are cursed by fate or not, the American people certainly live in interesting times. It is a time when the incumbent president…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was officially sworn in as President of the United States during the inauguration ceremony in Washington,…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer Well, I warned you. Trump’s only been in office one week, and it’s been horrible in pretty much every conceivable way, except that he…