Tag: News
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Eliza Fletcher Abduction Case Raises Concerns Over Victim Blaming
By Miranda Rider On Sept. 2, 2022, Eliza Fletcher was reported missing by her husband after she hadn’t returned from her four a.m. jog near The University of Memphis campus in Tennessee. She was an avid runner, a loving mother, and the heiress to a multimillion-dollar hardware store fortune. Not long after her disappearance, the […]
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Mississippi Water Crisis is the Latest in a Long History.
By Arianna Santiago There are over 150,000 residents currently without clean water in Jackson, Mississippi. In late August of 2022, heavy rainfall led to flooding at the Pearl River. As a result, it affected the treatment process at one of the water treatment plants–a plant with already damaged pumps. The failure caused thousands of homes […]
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Monkeypox and You: The Myths, Reality, and Prevention.
By Brandon S. Leonard In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues to affect some parts of the globe even as others try to return to normalcy, another disease has recently been on the rise: monkeypox. Monkeypox is largely native to West and Central Africa, and its spread beyond that region has been relatively […]
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Queen Elizabeth II Death Marks New Period for Scotland
Mourners gather outside the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland to pay respects to the late Queen Elizabeth ll on Sept. 8 Hundreds gather along the roads of Edinburgh, Scotland to observe the moving of the Queens body to The Palace of Holyroodhouse on Sept. 11 By Bianca Gallo Edinburgh, and the entire United Kingdom, […]
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Tensions Flare Over District Attorney Suspension on Abortion
By Brandon Leonard In the wake of Roe v. Wade being struck down, the state attorney for Florida’s 13th Judicial Circuit, Andrew Warren, was removed from office by Governor Ron DeSantis for alleged neglect of duty. According to the Washington Post, Warren’s suspension primarily resulted from his signature on two written statements pledging he would […]
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