Weekly News Blast | February 17-February 23
On February 23, 77-year-old Paddy Mulhall from Stradbally, County Laois, was fatally struck by a car on the N80 road. This incident occurred
Apurvasai Lakshmanan
Feb 27
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Weekly News Blast | February 17-February 23
On February 23, 77-year-old Paddy Mulhall from Stradbally, County Laois, was fatally struck by a car on the N80 road. This incident occurred
Apurvasai Lakshmanan
Feb 273 min read
Weekly News Blast | February 8-February 15
Whispers have emerged about peace in the Russian-Ukraine war following President Trump's push. Subsequently, the attacks on the eastern side
Sharbin Sajadpour
Feb 182 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
Mahsa Forghani
Jan 123 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
Ishan Karkare
Jan 62 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
Apurvasai Lakshmanan
Dec 31, 20242 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
Rashmi Karthik
Dec 16, 20242 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...
Téa Satariano
Jun 11, 20242 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...
Matthew Inui
May 13, 20244 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...
Téa Satariano
May 6, 20243 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...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Apr 29, 20244 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...
Mahsa Forghani
Apr 22, 20243 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...
Matthew Inui
Apr 10, 20244 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...
Téa Satariano
Apr 1, 20243 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...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Mar 25, 20246 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...
Matthew Inui
Mar 11, 20243 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...
NCJ Editors
Mar 4, 20243 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...
Danielle Uehara
Feb 12, 20244 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...
Téa Satariano
Feb 6, 20243 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...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Jan 31, 20245 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...
Danielle Uehara
Jan 15, 20243 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...
Téa Satariano
Jan 8, 20243 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...
Mackenzie Mathieu
Jan 1, 20244 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...
Danielle Uehara
Dec 19, 20233 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...
Téa Satariano
Dec 11, 20232 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..
Mackenzie Mathieu
Dec 5, 20234 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
Nov 20, 20234 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...
Danielle Uehara
Oct 23, 20233 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 9, 20233 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...
Matthew Inui
Oct 4, 20234 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...
Danielle Uehara
Sep 25, 20233 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 18, 20234 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...
Matthew Inui
Sep 4, 20234 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...
Danielle Uehara
Aug 28, 20233 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...
Matthew Inui
Aug 7, 20234 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...
Danielle Uehara
Jul 31, 20235 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...
Matthew Inui
Jul 3, 20234 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...
Danielle Uehara
Jun 21, 20234 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...
Matthew Inui
Mar 7, 20234 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...
David Lee
Feb 14, 20233 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...
Ariel Donato
Feb 6, 20233 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...
Matthew Inui
Jan 30, 20234 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...
Breanna Crossman
Jan 29, 20232 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 ...
Matthew Inui
Dec 29, 20224 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...
Breanna Crossman
Nov 8, 20223 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
Oct 12, 20224 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.
Matthew Inui
Jul 21, 20224 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...
Breanna Crossman
Jul 20, 20223 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...
Matthew Inui
Jul 11, 20224 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...
Breanna Crossman
Jun 26, 20224 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...
Ariel Donato
Jun 20, 20222 min read
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