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Mexico Threatens to Take Google to Court Over Renaming of the Gulf of Mexico

Mexico Threatens to Take Google to Court Over Renaming of the Gulf of Mexico

Carter Ledford February 28, 2025

On February 9, 2025, Google recognized Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on borders covering American sea borders. However, Google, on the 9th of this month, would rename the Gulf of Mexico as a whole to the...

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Burning Of The City We Love

Burning Of The City We Love

Jamie Fasig February 28, 2025

It isn’t the first and it isn't the last of the Los Angeles Wildfires. The destructive wildfires started on January 7th, 2025, and reached full containment more than three weeks later on January 31st. The fires, which have killed at least __ people,...

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Buckeye Brief XI: Jim Tressel Becomes Ohio Lt. Governor

Buckeye Brief XI: Jim Tressel Becomes Ohio Lt. Governor

Benjamin Nguyen February 26, 2025

When Vice President JD Vance was sworn into office, a series of vacuums in elected offices trickled down finally ending at the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.  Replacing Vice President Vance in the Senate was Fmr. Lt. Gov. Jon Husted.  Governor...

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The Case of Laken Riley and Her Act

The Case of Laken Riley and Her Act

Jozzlyn DeLeon February 25, 2025

On February 22nd, 2024, Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student was murdered while she was jogging at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens Georgia.   Laken had sustained significant blunt-force trauma to her head as well as evidence of asphyxiation.   The...

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Congressional Conflict Over Cabinet Candidates

Congressional Conflict Over Cabinet Candidates

Benjamin Nguyen February 25, 2025

President Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States more than three weeks ago yet his cabinet nominees, of which there are 15 cabinet departments and numerous other agencies whose directors require their nominations to be signed...

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Trump Signs ‘No Men in Women’s Sports’ Executive Order

Trump Signs ‘No Men in Women’s Sports’ Executive Order

Benjamin Nguyen February 24, 2025

President Trump’s Executive Order delivered on his campaign promise to get “transgender insanity the hell out of our schools” and to keep men out of women’s sports.  With numerous young, aspiring female athletes looking onwards, President Trump...

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New York Fashion Week 2025

New York Fashion Week 2025

Prince Gogna February 24, 2025

New York Fashion Week just kicked off as the lights dimmed and the final models took their walk, New York Fashion Week cemented itself as a season of amazing fashion lines. Where nostalgia met futurism and minimalism took off the main stage. This year's...

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Famous TikToker On Trial for Murder

Famous TikToker On Trial for Murder

Jozzlyn DeLeon February 24, 2025

A TikTok star known as Mr. Prada has been arrested in connection to the death of a Louisiana therapist.   20-year-old Terryon Thomas known as Mr. Prada on TikTok, was attested on October 1, 2024, after the body of William Abraham was found wrapped...

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Buckeye Brief X: Ohio Candidates Jump Into Midterms

Buckeye Brief X: Ohio Candidates Jump Into Midterms

Benjamin Nguyen January 30, 2025

Ohioans had virtually no break from politics as candidates began launching their campaigns for Ohio’s biggest offices, following the Inauguration of President Trump.  Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, because he is term-limited, cannot run for re-election. ...

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Republicans Pull It Together: Speaker Johnson Re-Elected

Republicans Pull It Together: Speaker Johnson Re-Elected

Benjamin Nguyen January 16, 2025

The US House of Representatives voted just 3 days into the new year on who would preside over the lower house through the 119th Session of Congress.  Speaker Mike Johnson [R-LA-4] who was elected following the removal of Fmr. Speaker Kevin McCarthy in...

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39th President Jimmy Carter Dead at 100

39th President Jimmy Carter Dead at 100

Will Widner January 16, 2025

Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner, passed away on December 29th, due to natural causes, in his home in Plains, Georgia. Jimmy Carter leaves behind many family members - this includes his four children,...

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How The LA Wildfires Are Affecting The Middle Class

How The LA Wildfires Are Affecting The Middle Class

Julianne Overfield-Singh January 16, 2025

America watches as rapidly growing wildfires tear California apart. But how is it exactly affecting the people living there? It is easily expressed through social media platforms, the conditions people living in Los Angeles are facing right now. But how...

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