As the winter months approach, you might need to reevaluate ways to combat the inevitable cold. In September, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared that a common ingredient found in over-the-counter (OTC) decongestants, phenylephrine, was proven to be ineffective. The FDA has not yet statedContinue Reading

In early 2021, Jackson State University (JSU), a small Historically Black College and University (HBCU) located in Jackson, Mississippi, hired hall-of-fame cornerback Deion Sanders (Coach Prime) as their head coach. Coach Sanders began his coaching career at JSU, and during his tenure, he completely turned around the JSU football programContinue Reading

This past Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, Kevin McCarthy was fired from his position as Speaker of the House. His firing was led by members of his own republican party who were unhappy with his attempts to stop a government shutdown. Eight members of the republican party, along with 208 DemocratsContinue Reading

The race is on to discover which Republican will challenge Incumbent President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election. The Republican primary elections will start Jan. 15 which means that candidates have already started debating, campaigning and raising money.  The frontrunner seems to be former President Donald Trump, promising aContinue Reading

A Grand Jury in Georgia has indicted Donald Trump and seventeen others for being a part of a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. The indictment means Trump went to Fulton County Jail to get fingerprinted and his mug shot taken and the case will go toContinue Reading

Hundreds of people are still missing and at least 115 people have died as a result of the horrific wildfires that tore across the Hawaiian island of Maui. The deadly flames, which have now spread throughout three of Hawaii’s islands, forced locals to seek emergency shelter and drove tourists offContinue Reading

This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that colleges could not determine acceptances based on race in any capacity. Recently, there have been numerous investigations into colleges discriminating against who they accept. Last year, a lawsuit targeting Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) made its way to TheContinue Reading

Although you may not see the effects of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Actors (SAG-AFTRA) strike, they will be prominent soon since production has been halted. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) began striking in February in response to writers not getting high residualContinue Reading

The Biden administration has threatened to ban TikTok in the US if its parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t sell the app to an American company, reports the Wall Street Journal. US officials believe that the Chinese-owned app poses a national security risk. This is largely due to worries over China’s policyContinue Reading

Recently, a new bill called the Utah Social Media Regulation Act was signed into law which  prohibits Utah children under the age of 18 from going on TikTik and other social media sites between 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. The bill also blocks children from using social media platforms withoutContinue Reading

When most people hear the term Climate Change, they think of Global Warming, deforestation and greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane. However, many people don’t know that Climate Change is also responsible for the increase in deadly storms over the past decades.  Large storms like tornadoes and hurricanes startContinue Reading

On Oct. 27 2022, billionaire and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, completed his purchase of 9.1% ownership of Twitter. The cost of this acquisition is estimated to be around 44 billion US dollars, per The New York Times. Since then Musk has made Twitter private and the appContinue Reading