By Kevin Bryan Getting the coveted A in school is viewed as an achievement, but it seems as though getting straight A’s is becoming increasingly common. When applying to top tier colleges, having a 4.0 is often essential to even enter the …
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By Megan Tjandrasuwita Emerging in the early 90s, Korean pop music, also known as K-pop, has been rapidly gaining popularity through Asia and other parts of the world. It has become an international phenomenon and increasingly finding a growing international audience in …
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Submitted by: Eileen Guo More than 1,300 lives are cut short each year in the Los Angeles area because of air pollution. Now, after years of work, regulators are getting ready to adopt their most substantial plan in more than a decade …
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By Krystal Yang On March 14, tens and thousands of students across the nation walked out of class at 10AM to commemorate the lives lost in the Florida school shooting last month, as well as to protest gun violence and push for …
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By Megan Tjandrasuwita It is no secret that George Lucas envisioned 9 episodes of the epic Star Wars saga. The franchise started with the second (original) trilogy in 1977 when Episode IV: Star Wars (later retitled as Episode IV: A New Hope) …
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In May 2016, a million and a half acres of land around Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada was caught in one of the largest wildfires in recent history, and the resulting firestorm caused the evacuation of just under 90,000 people. Again, in …
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By Alice Zhong On April 8, 2018, at least 70 people have died in a suspected chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held town in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta. Volunteer rescue force the White Helmets tweeted graphic images showing several bodies in basements. …
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