On October 28th, 2021, the Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that Facebook was changing its name to “Meta.” The retitling of the popular social media company is in an...
2021 has certainly been a tumultuous year, and inflation is nothing short of this pattern. As of December 2021, the U.S. inflation index is 7.0%, which is significantly higher than that of Europe’s...
On December 12th, 2019, a group of people in Wuhan, China fell sick to a mysterious, flu-like disease. Now, after two years, the virus has infected over 270 million people worldwide and claimed the lives...
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) system is one of the largest public transportation agencies in North America and one of the largest in the world. Pre-pandemic, in 2020, the...
The CDC announced in early November 2021 that the COVID-19 vaccine was safe for children ages 5 through 11. Throughout the nation, CVS and Walgreens each prepared a million shots for the first weekend....
Perhaps you were hoping for a relaxing ski trip to the Alps, maybe a winter getaway in Spain to soak up the sun, or simply traveling to visit your family. Well, your plans have probably changed thanks...
Big Bird is a Muppet from the iconic television series, Sesame Street, a light-hearted children’s show that has been airing continually on PBS since 1969. Over the years, the yellow puppet has become...
On November 2nd, 2021, Boston elected its first ever female Asian American mayor, Michelle Wu. This historic milestone puts an end to the city’s 200-year history of electing white men for the position....
The Grinch may have been able to steal Christmas this past December 25th, 2021, as a Christmas tree shortage appeared to be the new culprit of holiday dreams.
But why exactly was there a Christmas...
After Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won big in Georgia and captured the Senate Majority for Democrats in early January 2021, the party’s ambitions were higher than ever. A year later in January 2022,...
Just like many other high school students, the then seventeen-year-old Malala Yousafzai was completing a lab experiment for her chemistry class. A few minutes go by, and unlike any other high school student,...
The time has come for world leaders to come together and combat one of the world’s biggest issues, if not the biggest issue, facing us as a species -- climate change.
This year’s climate change...
Fish are now being shot out of a cannon at up to 22 miles per hour. In comparison, the fastest person on earth, Usain Bolt, reaches 23.35 miles per hour. As part of their life cycle, salmon cross rivers...
Britney Spears' career has been a success ever since she first debuted in 2000, at the young age of 16 with “...Baby one more time.” That album alone had 26 million dollars in sales, earning her nearly...
Digital media has skyrocketed over the past few years. WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are just a few in a long list of social media sites that many view daily and sometimes become victims...
According to researchers, if the United States had done more to reduce its incarceration rates, millions of COVID-19 cases could have been prevented.
1 out of 5 prisoners in the world is incarcerated...
The first ‘official’ day of winter has always been December 21st on the American calendar, the day when fall completely blurs into winter and the season turns into a mixture of coats and mittens. The...
With 39 controversial cases down the docket this term, the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority will determine the future of abortion laws, gun regulations, and other fundamental issues. And after...
Russia is increasing its presence in the Arctic in order to expand its economic and militaristic assets, setting off an international race to colonize the frozen ocean — and possibly start a new cold...
“Three Shot in Struggle with Mask Slacker” read the headline of an article published by The San Francisco Chronicle on October 29, 1918, describing an incident that was not the only form of resistance...
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