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Voting: All You Need to Know About Midterms

October 27, 2018

As the general election date of November 6 reaches closer on the calendar, residents of all counties in their home states have been preparing to vote for local and statewide officials. Early voting began...

Supreme Court Nomination Upsets Nation

October 11, 2018

Demonstrators march to Supreme Court in protest of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Oct. 4. AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Saturday, Oct. 6 with...

News Briefs: Pop, Politics, and More

September 17, 2018

POP NEWS John Legend Gains EGOT Title Over the weekend of Sep. 8, singer and songwriter John Legend, 39, became the youngest artist as well as the first African American man to achieve the EGOT (Emmy,...

News Briefs

May 2, 2018

• Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced April 12 that a new plan to increase teacher pay by 20 percent will be implemented by the beginning of the 2020 school year, according to CBS News. In 2018, teacher...

News Briefs

April 6, 2018

• Linda Brown Thompson, the renowned “Brown” in the Brown v. Board of Education case that turned America’s segregated schools into diverse communities, passed away at 75 in Topeka, KS, on March...

Jennifer Hanner, a first-year teacher from Harts, W.Va., holds a sign Thursday at the Capitol in Charleston. Teachers statewide went on strike Thursday over pay and benefits.
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Teachers Strike for Higher Pay

April 6, 2018

Last month, teachers in West Virginia walked out of classrooms in a strike for almost two weeks demanding better wages from the state legislature. The strike finally ended when the legislature passed...

March for Our Lives Rally Draws 800,000

April 6, 2018

Approximately 800,000 people gathered in D.C. for the ‘March For Our Lives’ protest on March 24 to protest gun violence in America. The protest was organized by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...

Bubba Wallace Makes History as Daytona Driver

March 23, 2018

Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr. is just the fourth African-American driver to ever get behind the wheel of a stock car in a NASCAR race. At Daytona, Wallace became just the second African-American since...

News Briefs

March 22, 2018

• The next two weeks will feature unusually chilly temperatures from coast to coast, the Climate Prediction Center said. But by early to mid-April, temperatures should flip to warmer than average for...

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