By Kevin Zhang At least 19 children and two faculty members are dead after a deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The incident has sparked President Biden to …
Read More »Biden Approves Return of U.S. Troops to Somalia
By Kevin Zhang In a decision reversing the actions of his predecessor President Trump, President Biden has approved a Pentagon request to redeploy hundreds of American troops to Somalia for what has been called “a persistent U.S. military presence” for counterterrorism efforts …
Read More »Bongbong Marcos Leads Philippine Presidential Election
By Kevin Zhang With more than 98% of vote counting complete, the 64-year-old senator and son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos has seemingly already won by a landslide, with double the votes of his nearest rival. An official result for the election …
Read More »EU Proposes Ban on Russian Oil Imports
By Kevin Zhang The European Union has proposed to ban all Russian oil imports by the end of this year and remove Sberbank, Russia’s biggest bank, from the SWIFT international payments system. However, the proposal has immediately run into opposition from EU …
Read More »Elon Musk’s Offer to Buy Twitter Confirmed
By Kevin Zhang Twitter has accepted an offer made by Elon Musk to purchase the social media platform for $44 billion, the company announced in a press conference today. Musk purchased the company at $54.20 per share, the same price he named …
Read More »Florida Dissolves Disney’s Special Privileges
By Kevin Zhang On Thursday, a Republican-led Florida legislature passed a bill seeking to rescind the special district status and associated privileges granted to the Walt Disney Company that allow it to act as a self-governing body within the outer limits of …
Read More »Arrest Made After South Carolina Mall Shooting
By Kevin Zhang A 22-year-old man has been arrested for suspected connections with a shooting that occurred at a South Carolina mall in which nine people were shot and five were injured in a stampede that ensued. The man was one of …
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