On Friday, Sept. 18, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away in her home at the age of 87 due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Throughout her years on the Supreme Court,...
Puerto Rico
On April 18, Puerto Rico suffered an island-wide power outage seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed the island’s power grid. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority blamed the...
Aarushi Ahuja, World & Nation Editor
• January 26, 2018
Turkey
Turkey will be extending its current military campaign in Syria to the Kurdish controlled state of Manbij, according to The Guardian. The plan was announced on Wednesday, Jan. 24 by the Turkish...
This year, I spent all of my winter break in New York with two host families. One of my host family members was an alumna of my university in Japan and an exchange student at Guilford College 30 years...
Piracy may have returned to the coast of Somalia.
In a press conference at Camp Lemonnier, a U.S. naval base in Djibouti and the only U.S. military base in Africa, Secretary of Defense James Mattis...
Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro supports rewriting the national constitution. His proposal would reorganize the existing legislative body and change the election system to “direct and...
Ian Penny, World and Nation Editor
• April 28, 2017
Brazil
On April 25, indigenous people protesting in Brasília, Brazil, clashed with police officers. About 4,000 people attended the protest, which concerned legislation about indigenous land rights....
Abe Kenmore, World and Nation Editor
• September 5, 2014
ISIS-controlled territory: The Islamic State released a video Tuesday showing the execution of the American journalist, Steven Sotloff, according to The Wall Street Journal. He is the second American journalist...
Catherine Schurz, World and Nation Section Editor
• March 8, 2013
OHIO, USA
Throughout February, Oberlin College discovered racial slurs displayed across campus, such as “n----- oven” graffiti in an elevator and “whites only” written above a water fountain....
