President Donald Trump announced plans to pause all grants, loans and other federal financial assistance on Jan. 27 in yet another executive order. This added to more than 50 other executive orders that Trump has signed in the first three weeks of his second presidential term — the most any […]
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The return of TikTok has users questioning algorithm changes
TikTok has faced threats of a nationwide ban ever since President Donald Trump’s first term due to allegations of the Chinese Communist Party spying on American citizens through the app. The app was officially banned on Jan. 18 for about 14 hours before the ban was lifted. However, this ban […]
Trump grants pardon to General Michael Flynn
Photo courtesy of Defense Intelligence Agency, Wikipedia President Donald Trump has granted a presidential pardon to his former National Security Advisor, General Michael Flynn, which he announced on Nov. 25. “It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon,” Trump wrote on […]
Strict voter identification requirements can mitigate fraud
Photo courtesy of EraserGirl, Wikipedia The 2020 presidential election has come to a close despite ballots still being counted and three states not being called. It has been an election unlike no other given the circumstances of COVID-19, which resorted in some states mostly running their elections by mail-in ballots. On […]
Trump faces criticism for failing to invoke the 25th Amendment
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, Flickr President Trump’s personal physician, Dr. Sean P. Conley, announced last Thursday that the commander-in-chief can resume his in-person activities and terminate his self-quarantine. In a health update on Oct. 4, Conley stated President Trump was continuing to improve in the previous 24 hours. It […]
Trump asks us to not let COVID-19 dominate our lives
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, Flickr President Donald Trump has made it clear that Americans should not be afraid of contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19) despite him contracting the disease himself. So far, over 208,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. In the past few days, many top officials in the Trump […]
Trump returns to the White House after brief hospitalization
Photo courtesy of Joe Biden, Flickr President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday night after allegedly receiving clearance from his doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center. Upon his arrival, the president posed on the balcony for a photo-op without a mask, apparently breathing heavily, which critics raised as […]
Twitter’s new abusive behavior policy is under scrutiny
Photo courtesy of Franmarie Metzler; U.S. House Office of Photography, Wikipedia An account run by Twitter’s spokespeople posted on Friday that "tweets that wish or hope for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against anyone are not allowed and will need to be removed." This policy was clarified after President Donald […]
Trump’s hostile response to leaving office deserves scrutiny
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, Flickr The 2020 presidential election is just around the corner. As a stressed and concerned population of Americans, we should be scared. Current President Donald Trump has recently released that he will not leave office peacefully, if elected out. Trump has been receiving plenty […]
California wildfires are worsened by climate change
Photo courtesy of MILKOVÍ, Unsplash In the past month, California has seen record breaking temperatures and experienced six of the 20 worst wildfires in history. Currently, there are 28 major active fires, which have left 24 people dead. One of the causes of these fires was a pyrotechnic malfunction at a gender […]