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Monday, May 12, 2025
Burger King, a well known fast food restaurant, was slammed for a sexist tweet on International Women’s Day. Burger King’s UK Twitter tweeted, “Women belong in the kitchen.” It sparked an outcry as critics accused the brand of using a sexist trope as clickbait and many people were offended by […]
On March 3, the governor of Texas, Greg Abott, decided to lift the mask mandate in his state. Governors in Mississippi, Iowa, Montana and North Dakota have also all made the decision to lift their state mask mandates, a decision that could potentially kill thousands. Governor Abott decided to reopen […]
Guinea declared an Ebola outbreak on February 15, 2021. It started in the border area of Guinea. West Africa is now on high alert due to the outbreak. In the past week, there have been seven cases and three deaths. The cases took place in a nurses funeral home where […]
It’s been one year since the first COVID-19 case in the U.S. was reported and as America just surpassed 500,000 deaths and 28 million confirmed COVID-19 cases. We might be able to get a glimpse of a tiny dazzling light at the end of the tunnel, even if it still […]
Since summer, the school board has been trying tirelessly to bring students back to in-person learning. On February 11, the board voted to approve a plan to return to school. Other districts around the Bay Area such as Palo Alto Unified School District and San Francisco Unified School District have […]
We’ve just embarked on February of 2021, and alongside this month, a new administration and reformed vaccinations plans have arrived. California is no doubt the state that has suffered the most from COVID-19 because it is the most populated state in the country. We have had more than three million […]
We’re beginning to approach a full year of online learning, with March 13 being only one month away. This process has caused an incredible amount of controversy, discussion and planning in our own school district, and we still await the call for in-person learning. Meanwhile, on February 3, the city […]
Over the past two weeks, the Bay Area has seen powerful storms take over. A series of storms had knocked out power for more than 400,000 people, threatening mudslides and ordering evacuations. Evacuation orders took place in parts of Santa Cruz and Monterey. In addition, more than 8 million people […]
Beginning on June 10, 2020, upset Californians began petitioning to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. The recall was originally started to remove Newsom from office after his efforts to contain the Coronavirus, increased taxes, the high rate of homelessness, rationing water use and restricting parental rights. Since 1911, there have been […]
Since the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020, Twitter has been adding labels to Donald Trump’s tweets to warn people of false information; when Trump tweeted that he had won the election, Twitter added a warning on his tweet that stated “This claim about election fraud has been disputed”. […]