The Wait for a New House Speaker Finally Ends
After an historic vote to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position as Speaker of the House and the tumultuous weeks of voting that followed, the Republican-majority House of Representatives finally…
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After an historic vote to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position as Speaker of the House and the tumultuous weeks of voting that followed, the Republican-majority House of Representatives finally…
Come election day on November 7th, Pennsylvania will elect a State Supreme Court Justice to a ten-year term. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is currently split 4-2, with liberals holding a…
Elections are coming to Lancaster County on November 7, 2023! Voters are preparing to elect the Lancaster school board of directors, municipal boards, commissioner, and clerk. On the state-level, Lancaster…
On Friday the 13th of October, a French High School in the small northern city of Arras was a victim of a terrorist attack from an alumnus, Mohammed Mogouchkov. The…
New Zealanders went to the polls on October 14th to decide who they would send to Parliament. The election was contested by the favored center-right National Party, led by Christopher…
John Green’s obsession with tuberculosis started in 2019, he says in a video from August 15th: “I visited the Lakka tuberculosis treatment center in Sierra Leone and met this boy,…
The federal government temporarily avoided a shutdown with mere hours to spare on Sunday, September 30th. This outcome came as a surprise to many following politics as the government seemed…
Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has been abruptly and shockingly ousted from the position by far-right Republicans. Elected in a tumultuous multi-ballot election across multiple days,…
An initial rendering of the newly developed Lombardo Welcome Center from fandm.edu. Assistant Director of Project Management Sheldon Wenger said past renderings are about 95 percent accurate to the current…
With a major uptick in strikes this year — from the Rutgers University strike and impending Southwest airline worker strike to the much more notorious WGA writers’ strike and the…
On September 27, 2023, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) ended their strike. At slightly over four months, this was the second longest strike in the WGA’s history, only five…
After an ‘explosive’ indictment in New York, embattled Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is under siege from Senate colleagues and prosecutors. Accused of a ‘brazen bribery plot,’ the senator has faced…
On Tuesday, September 19th, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the United Nations General Assembly in New York City—his first in-person trip since February 2022. The goals of this visit was…
The Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential election are off to the races in the much-anticipated showdown against incumbent President Joe Biden. The stunning defeat of former President Donald Trump…
Along with all of the other sicknesses that cold and flu season brings, COVID-19 cases have been on the rise. While luckily not catastrophic in comparison to the massive original…