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On Wednesday, October...
The threat of a government shutdown made headlines in September and early November but after various stopgaps were passed, the news died down. Despite the lapse in coverage, the possibility of a government...
After 22 years of the Faircloth Amendment blocking the construction of new public housing in the United States, the amendment was repealed in early July of 2020. The repeal of the Faircloth Amendment can...
President-Elect Biden Selecting First Black Secretary of Defense, Daisy BolgerPresident-Elect Joe Biden has chosen former Army General Lloyd Austin as the new Secretary of Defense. Austin will be the first...
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad, commonly referred to as SARS, was founded in Nigeria in 1992 to combat robbery, kidnappings, and other serious crimes. Before its establishment, crimes of such nature were...
On March 13th, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a black emergency room technician, was murdered by three policemen: Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Myles Cosgrove, and Detective Brett Hankison. Police raided her...
For decades, the fate of the city of Jerusalem and the West Bank have been uncertain. The Israeli government illegally annexed this land decades ago, and considered it their capital. The Palestinians had...
Understanding The Racial Wealth Gap & its Effects
Throughout history, systemic racism has ravaged communities of color in unspeakable ways, impacting American politics for far more than a century,...
On January 9th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced a coronavirus related disaster in Wuhan, China. Since then, COVID-19 has spread around the world, and was officially declared a pandemic...
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict began in the 1920s when the Soviet Union established the region. Ninety-five percent of this autonomous region was ethnically Armenian, despite it being located in Azerbaijan....
