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By Ellyn Fritz || Contributing Writer Abū Bakr Al-Baghdadi was the world’s most wanted terrorist chieftain, with a target of a twenty-five million dollar bounty offered by the American government.…
By Ellyn Fritz || Contributing Writer Last week, President Trump ordered American troops to step aside from the northern border in Syria, against the advice of his national security team.…
By Jeremy Mauser || Staff Writer Earlier this month the Trump administration announced that they are close to finishing up a ban on flavored e-cigarettes. More than 800 people have…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor Last Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry would be launched against President Trump. The sharp reversal of policy for Pelosi…
By Sarah Ye || Contributing Writer Photo courtesy of ABC News On Friday, February 15, President Trump declared a national emergency to fund his wall along the Southwest border. While…
By Max Sano || Staff Writer On January 28th, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed new sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company–PdVSA. While there are…
By Samantha Milowitz || Staff Writer In the span of one day, Nick Sandmann became an online sensation. You might know Sandmann as the young boy sporting the red “Make…
By Sunya Hassan || News Editor Cesar Sayoc, the man who authorities believe to be person behind the pipe bomb packages, was arrested in south Florida on Friday, October 26.…
Sunya Hassan || News Editor On Friday, September 7th, Former President Barack Obama gave a speech at the University of Illinois, imploring people to vote this November, stressing that American…
By Ethan Beller || Contributing Writer As of 3:23 pm on March 23rd, 2018 Donald J. Trump had been president for one year, 62 days, two hours, 36 minutes, and…
By Kt Thomas || Satirical Columnist Life can be trying for women in today’s political climate. Feeling oppressed, silenced, and insignificant are all too common these day, which is…
By Josh Friedman || Contributing Editor Last year, I wrote an article for my high school newspaper expressing my most genuine concern for the dangers of Donald J. Trump winning…
By Audrey Lee || Contributing Writer The Justice Department, alongside President Donald Trump, announced Tuesday, September 5th that the administration would be ending the Obama-era immigration policy, DACA (Deferred Action…
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 Katherine Coble || News Editor On Thursday, March 2, MSNBC political correspondent Steve Kornacki came to Franklin & Marshall College to speak about the current political climate in America.…