The video quality may leave something to be desired, but what is captured manages to grip you. After all, how often do you find yourself in a similar situation like the filmer? The civilian who was filming the video captured an artist vandalizing museum property at the Perez Art Museum in Miami. From somewhere in […]

The quality of the video montage is fairly decent given the nature of the event. Private citizens shot the clips, which is unsurprising given the local evacuations. At certain points, the narration explained the in-the-moment events during Superstorm Sandy. The main purpose of the video montage was to inform the general public about how the […]

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed House Bill 391 on Friday, April 23. The bill targets the participation of transgender youth in school sports. LGBTQ activists regard the bill as staunchly anti-transgender. The bill would ban students from participating in school sports that are consistent with their gender identity. The Alabama bill is not unique. Thirty […]

The Notre Dame cathedral was built between 1160 and 1260. The cathedral was dedicated to the virgin Mary, and the history of the cathedral’s survival is intense and legendary. The cathedral is considered to be one of the most refined examples of French Gothic architecture. The cathedral has gone through several modifications, and it has also lived […]

The Brazilian Amazon is still on fire. The fires that decimated the forest in the past year were no accident. Most of the land in the area has been cleared to create land for agriculture. With the forest occupying nine nations, deforestation rates are increasing. The agribusiness sector is the primary beneficiary of the deforestation. […]

Source: USA TODAY, CNN, Daily Mail   The Arkansas River ripped through a 40-foot section of a levee around 75 miles northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas early in the morning of Friday, May 31. This prompted flash-flood warnings and evacuations in rural areas around Dardanelle and Holla Bend. The flash flood alert warned that some […]

Sources: NPR, CBS, ABC   The state license at a Planned Parenthood in Missouri, the last abortion provider in the state, will expire at midnight on June 1, 2019. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed a law last week criminalizing most abortions after eight weeks. The law has yet to take effect; instead, the dispute between […]

Source: The New York Times, The New York Times    On Wednesday evening, the New York Times published an account by an unnamed member of the Trump administration about resistance figures operating from inside the government. In the piece, the official claims that “many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions […]

Source: NPR, Al Jazeera, Newsweek  Hungary’s government has stopped providing food to adult asylum-seekers who have appealed their denied cases. Authorities have both refused to provide food and denied individuals permission to purchase their own food. The government is also blocking attempts by outside groups to donate food, according to the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights watchdog group based in Hungary. […]

Source: Chicago Tribune, FOX News    Two-term mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, announced on Tuesday that he will not seek re-election. He abruptly dropped his bid for a third term as mayor, stating instead that he wanted to begin a new chapter in his life.   Rahm Emanuel has spent 23 years in politics, making many personal sacrifices […]