What COVID-19 Tells us About Climate Change
Analise Draghi, World News Editor
April 14, 2020
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s likely that most people have heard of its impact on the environment as more and more populations are required to quarantine: posts of dolphins returning to the canals of Venice, elephants breaking into Chinese villages, and animals roaming city streets have blown...
How has Covid-19 Affected Schooling Worldwide?
Analise Draghi, World News Editor
April 6, 2020
“Do we demand the kids still master the same amount of content? Do we add additional time to the (next) school year? Start two or three weeks early to try to recoup some of that time?” Sarah Woodward, a math teacher at a technical high school in Cincinnati, worries, like many around the globe, what...
Earth’s New Mini-Moon
Analise Draghi, World News Editor
March 19, 2020
Earth has a new mini-moon: a car-sized asteroid has been discovered orbiting the globe on February 15, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The mini-moon, which is officially named 2020 CD3, was discovered by two astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. Astronomers were able to captur...
“Stay low and do not make any loud noises”: a Look Inside the Thailand Shooting
Analise Draghi, World News Editor
February 26, 2020
Thailand is reeling from its deadliest mass shooting in recent history. An event that seems so common in the United States, Thai people are struggling to come to terms with the shooting, which lasted 18 hours, took 29 lives, and wreaked havoc on the minds of many. The gunman, a 32-year-old soldier, according...
Bushfires in Australia Strengthen the Country’s Climate Movement
February 20, 2020
According to CNN, on November 12, 2019, a catastrophic fire danger was declared in Sydney, Australia. By early December, the city found that the air quality was eleven times worse than the “hazardous” level. Meanwhile, devastating blazes burned across the continent, strongest in New So...
Harvey Weinstein Trial
Sarah Sehgal, Layout Editor
February 20, 2020
In early January, the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein commenced in a Manhattan courthouse. Weinstein has been accused of five felonies and if charged could be sentenced to life in prison. Over 90 women have accused him of sexual misconduct. A total of six testified during his trial. The allegations agai...
Survivors Return to Death Camp After 75 years
Tiffany Blanchard, Layout Editor
February 13, 2020
On Monday, January 27th, more than 200 survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered to mark 75 years of the camp’s liberation, and many will do so for the last time. Elderly survivors from the United States, Israel, South America, Russia, and elsewhere met presidents, prime ministers and...
Adding Insult to Injury: the Eighth Democratic Debate
February 11, 2020
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE—It has not been a good week for the Democratic Party. The crowded primary’s sky-high hopes for the Iowa caucuses, the first in the nation, imploded spectacularly on Monday night as the vote results were delayed for days on end and resulted in a split and inconclusive ver...
A Global Scare: The Wuhan Coronavirus
Analise Draghi, World News Editor
February 10, 2020
A stuffy nose, cough, sore throat, fever, shortness of breath. It could be a common virus, like the flu- or it could be the epidemic coronavirus. According to WebMD, a coronavirus is fairly common, and most people are infected with some type at least once in their life. There have been two outbre...
Remembering Kobe Bryant
February 3, 2020
At around 9:00 AM PST, on January 26th, a helicopter carrying former NBA Superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and several other passengers crashed into the side of a mountain in Calabasas. There were no survivors. This news has come as a great shock and heartbreak to many, as Bryant was widely idolized a...
Starting Off the Decade Right: 2020 Census
Analise Draghi, World News Editor
January 28, 2020
What seems like an irrelevant count of state populations every decade actually has dire consequences if not accurate. With April 1, National Census Day, fast approaching, New Jersey’s one shot this decade to secure a sufficient amount of federal funds is on the line. The census, which is mandated by the Constit...
Australian Inferno
Analise Draghi, World News Editor
January 28, 2020
Unbearable heat. Smoke. Ash. Destruction. Australia’s fires are out of control. Blazing since late July, these fires show no sign of stopping. Similar to the Amazon rainforest, fire seasons are normal in Australia and are ignited through natural causes, but the extent to which these fires burn is ce...
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