John Brown University's Student Newspaper
Protestors at the presidential inauguration held up signs reading “Trump is not my president,” and “dump Trump” in protest of Donald Trump becoming the 45th president of the United States. The city of Washington experienced many violent acts of protest during the inauguration. The New York Post reported that two […]
The senate approved three of Trump’s 22 choices for his cabinet. The senate’s confirmations will be slow and painful over the next few weeks. The President of the United States has always chosen the members of his own cabinet, but they are subject to Senate confirmation. To date, John Kelly, […]
The Affordable Care Act, the controversial healthcare reform law commonly referred to as “Obamacare,” will be replaced by President Trump in the coming weeks. After the 2016 election, in which Republican Donald Trump won the presidency and the Republican party took the majority of the house and the senate, repealing […]
Israel has recently planned for another 2,500 settlements on the Palestinian occupied West Bank. The expansion of settlements has been controversial since its start in 1967 because of its effect on Palestinians living in East Jerusalem. Obama’s recent choice to abstain from a U.N. vote against Israeli settlement reflects two […]
The petition program, We the People, created by the White House in 2011 to make a more open government, has only shown limited results. “The White House promised to use the site to engage with the public and to issue responses to all petitions that reached a given number of […]
Facebook’s live video feature gained a negative reputation after four individuals turned to the network’s new platform to broadcast themselves torturing a young man with special needs. The incident began on New Year’s Eve when the victim was picked up by an acquaintance from a McDonald’s in Chicago, Illinois. The […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released information that there were more than 3,000 firearms in carry-on bags in 2016, a 28 percent increase. Out of the 3,391 firearms that were found, 83 percent of them were loaded and 17 percent were unloaded, according to CNN. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport had […]
Faculty and administration members are looking into lowering the required core curriculum hours in order to lessen students’ course loads and enrich their studies within their majors. The Core Curriculum Committee proposed its curriculum plan at noon on Wednesday, January 18, in Simmons Great Hall. Numerous professors and faculty members […]
Approximately two in three Americans believe that fabricated news stories cause “a great deal of confusion” about the basic facts of current events, according to a survey of 1,002 U.S. adults conducted by the Pew Research Center in December. Makayla Kilmer, freshman family and human services major, said she once […]
South Korean President Park Geun-hye was accused of a corruption scandal that led to the first impeachment in the country’s history. President Park, impeached with a vote of 234 to 56 by lawmakers in South Korea’s National Assembly, had plans to stay in office until February 2018. She is currently […]