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Weekly News Blasts
Mahsa Forghani
Jan 12
Weekly News Blast | January 5-January 12
Southern California continues to grapple with devastating wildfires, with fires in the Palisades and Eaton leading the destruction. As of F
Weekly News Blast | January 5-January 12
Mahsa Forghani
Jan 12
Weekly News Blast | December 29-January 5
Ishan Karkare
Jan 6
Weekly News Blast | December 23-28
Apurvasai Lakshmanan
Dec 31, 2024
Weekly News Blast | December 8-15
Rashmi Karthik
Dec 16, 2024
Archive
Mahsa Forghani
Jan 12
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | January 5-January 12
Southern California continues to grapple with devastating wildfires, with fires in the Palisades and Eaton leading the destruction. As of F
Ishan Karkare
Jan 6
2 min read
Weekly News Blast | December 29-January 5
On December 29, 2024, Jeju Air Flight 2216, coming from Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan, South Korea, tragically crashed during its attempt to la
Apurvasai Lakshmanan
Dec 31, 2024
2 min read
Weekly News Blast | December 23-28
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck Southern California on December 26, causing significant damage in Los Angele
Rashmi Karthik
Dec 16, 2024
2 min read
Weekly News Blast | December 8-15
Donald Trump settled charges against ABC News in the defamation case of George Stephanopolous for 15 million dollars. Publicly filed on Satu
Téa Satariano
Jun 11, 2024
2 min read
Weekly News Blast | June 2-9
Following a defeat by significant margins against the far right in the European elections Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron dissol...
Matthew Inui
May 13, 2024
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | May 5 - 12
Former public security minister José Raúl Mulino was declared the winner of the Panama presidential election on May 5, marking the end of...
Téa Satariano
May 6, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | April 28 - May 5
Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas’ 28th Congressional District, and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were charged with bribery...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Apr 29, 2024
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | April 21 - 28
On April 17, Columbia University president Nemat Minouche Shafik was called to testify before the House Committee on Education and the Wo...
Mahsa Forghani
Apr 22, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | April 14 - 21
Former president Donald Trump is currently facing his first criminal trial. Trump has been accused of falsifying business records and pay...
Matthew Inui
Apr 10, 2024
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | March 31 - April 7
Seven humanitarian aid workers were killed in Gaza on April 1 after Israel led deadly airstrikes on their truck caravan. According to the...
Téa Satariano
Apr 1, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Mar 24 - 31
Early Tuesday morning, a cargo ship collided with the support beams of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore after losing power, almo...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Mar 25, 2024
6 min read
Weekly News Blast | March 18 - 24
In February, Judge Arthur F. Engoron decided against former president Donald Trump in a New York civil fraud case, ruling that the family...
Matthew Inui
Mar 11, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | March 3 - 10
In an overwhelming 780-72 vote, French MPs and senators passed an amendment declaring abortion a “guaranteed freedom,” making France the...
NCJ Editors
Mar 4, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Feb 25 - March 3
On Friday, a Texas district court judge temporarily halted a demand for the LGTBQ advocacy group PFLAG National to hand over information...
Danielle Uehara
Feb 12, 2024
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Feb 4 - 11
On January 17, Buckingham Palace announced that King Charles was undergoing a “corrective procedure” for a benign (non-cancerous) enlarge...
Téa Satariano
Feb 6, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jan 28 - Feb 3
Since Thursday, Southern California has been hit with historic amounts of rainfall, formed by two separate storm systems in the region...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Jan 31, 2024
5 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jan 21 - 28
On January 23, New Hampshire held the country’s second Republican presidential primary. The two remaining candidates, former President Do...
Danielle Uehara
Jan 15, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jan 7 - 14
Lithium mining in Chile has been suspended at the Atacama Salt Flats, the world’s largest lithium deposit, after indigenous groups blocke...
Téa Satariano
Jan 8, 2024
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Dec 31 - Jan 7
On January 5, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state of Idaho to enforce a strict abortion ban, stating that they would hear arguments...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Jan 1, 2024
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Dec 24 - 31
Following the Colorado Supreme Court ruling last week that removed Donald Trump from the presidential ballot in the state, more states...
Danielle Uehara
Dec 19, 2023
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Dec 12 - 17
According to Japan’s Ministry of Defense, North Korea launched a possible long-range ballistic missile on Wednesday, around the same time...
Téa Satariano
Dec 11, 2023
2 min read
Weekly News Blast | Dec 3 - 10
On December 5, United States President Biden told several of his campaign donors that he is not certain whether he will run for president...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Dec 5, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Nov 26 - Dec 3
On November 30, the Russian Supreme Court ruled that “the international LGBTQ public movement and its subdivisions” should be designated a..
Danielle Uehara
Nov 20, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Nov 12-19
On Sunday, November 19, Argentina held its run-off elections between centrist Sergio Massa and a far-right candidate Javier Milei. During...
Danielle Uehara
Oct 23, 2023
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Oct 15 - 22
Early on October 21, prominent Jewish activist Samantha Woll was found stabbed to death outside her home in Lafayette Park, Detroit. Acco...
Matthew Inui
Oct 9, 2023
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Oct 1 - 8
The trial for cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried began on October 3. He faces seven federal charges, including wire fraud, securities...
Matthew Inui
Oct 4, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Sep 24 - Oct 1
On September 26, New York judge Arthur Engoron ruled that former president Donald J. Trump had routinely committed fraud by inflating the...
Danielle Uehara
Sep 25, 2023
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Sep 18 - 24
On Monday, September 18, Canada expelled India’s top intelligence agent with little explanation. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
Matthew Inui
Sep 18, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Sep 10 - 17
Torrents from tropical “medicane” Storm Daniel recently caused unprecedented flooding in Derna, a city in northeastern Libya. According...
Matthew Inui
Sep 4, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Aug 27 - Sep 3
After failing to qualify for the first Republican primary debate last week, presidential candidate Francis Suarez announced on August 29...
Danielle Uehara
Aug 28, 2023
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Aug 20-27
On August 24, former president Donald Trump turned himself into the Fulton County Jail on state charges for his efforts to overturn the...
Matthew Inui
Aug 7, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | July 30 - Aug 6
On August 1, the Fitch Ratings agency downgraded the U.S. credit rating from the highest (AAA) to the second highest (AA+). In a statemen...
Danielle Uehara
Jul 31, 2023
5 min read
Weekly News Blast | July 23 - 30
According to the mayor of Moscow and the Russian Defense Ministry, in the early hours of July 30, three Ukrainian drones damaged two high...
Matthew Inui
Jul 3, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | June 25 - July 2
After a tumultuous mayoral election in Canada’s most populous city, veteran politician Olivia Chow was declared the new mayor-elect of To...
Danielle Uehara
Jun 20, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | June 11-18
According to multiple crypto-tracking experts, a group of North Korean hackers known as “Lazarus” were likely behind the theft of at leas...
Matthew Inui
Mar 7, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Feb. 26 - Mar. 5
Since the UK left the European Union (EU) in 2020, Northern Ireland (which remains part of the UK but shares a land border with the indep...
David Lee
Feb 14, 2023
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Feb. 6-12
On February 6, Turkey and Syria were struck by a magnitude 7.6 earthquake, leaving more than 46,000 dead. The strongest in the country in...
Ariel Donato
Feb 6, 2023
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jan. 30 – Feb. 5
Pursuant to the Biden administration’s new immigration program, U.S. officials have approved more than 7,500 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragu...
Matthew Inui
Jan 30, 2023
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jan. 22-29
This week, former Vice President Mike Pence reported that his staff had found a “small number of documents” from his time in the White Ho...
Breanna Crossman
Jan 28, 2023
2 min read
Weekly News Blast 1/15-1/22
On January 22, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran killed 11 and injured more at a Los Angeles dance hall, inciting new fears about mass shootings a...
Matthew Inui
Dec 29, 2022
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Nov. 6-13
On November 6, 2022, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) convened in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. In the following days, delegates and ...
Breanna Crossman
Nov 8, 2022
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Nov. 1-7
With the midterms only days away, notable figures such as Former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama visited several key battlegroun...
Matthew Inui
Oct 12, 2022
4 min read
Weekly News Blast Sept. 11-18
A summary of notable events from the previous week. 1. Ukraine Reclaims Kharkiv Region From Russian Control On September 11, Russia for...
Matthew Inui
Jul 21, 2022
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jul. 10-17
A summary of notable events from the previous week: LA County COVID spike, first photos from NASA's Webb Telescope, Twitter sues Elon Musk.
Breanna Crossman
Jul 20, 2022
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jul. 4-10
Key events from the week of July 4: parade shooting leaves seven dead, Georgia grand jury subpoenas former Trump campaign lawyers...
Matthew Inui
Jul 11, 2022
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jun. 19-26
Key events from the week of June 19 to June 26: CDC approves COVID-19 vaccine for young children, FINA restricts transgender women...
Breanna Crossman
Jun 26, 2022
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jun. 13-19
Noteworthy events from the week of June 13: Trump to be indicted for January 6 insurrection, transgender swimmers banned by FINA...
Ariel Donato
Jun 20, 2022
2 min read
Weekly News Blast | Jun. 5-12
A summary of key events from early June: U.S. gun reform laws in response to shootings, Yellowstone National Park experiences flooding...
Matthew Inui
Jun 14, 2022
3 min read
Weekly News Blast | May 29-Jun. 5
Major events from the past week: the Supreme Court blocks a law regulating social media companies, shooting in Tulsa, Johnny Depp wins...
Breanna Crossman
Jun 6, 2022
4 min read
Weekly News Blast | May 23-30
A summary of events from the past week: tragic shooting in Uvalde, Southern Baptist Church report reveals abuse, baby formula shortage...
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