Los inmigrantes indocumentados serán excluidos del Censo 2020
Hillary Flores and Maria Guerrero
July 23, 2020
El presidente Donald Trump firmó un memorándum el martes excluyendo a los inmigrantes indocumentados de ser contados en el Censo 2020 en un esfuerzo por redistribuir a los representantes entre los estados. Trump dijo que el decreto es una "póliza de los Estados Unidos para excluir de la base de distribución a los ex...
Undocumented immigrants will be excluded from the 2020 census
Hillary Flores and Maria Guerrero
July 23, 2020
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday excluding undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census in an effort to reapportion Representatives among the states. Trump said the memo is a "policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not...
Trump administration reverses restrictions on international students
Marcus Robertson and Associated Press
July 14, 2020
The Trump administration reversed its decision forcing international students to take in-person classes this fall at a hearing Tuesday for the lawsuit filed by Harvard and MIT opposing the directive. International students will now be allowed to take an entirely online course load and remain in the U...
Trump administration to cut funding for Illinois COVID-19 testing sites
Marcus Robertson, Nation & World Editor
June 24, 2020
Two Illinois COVID-19 testing sites in Peoria and Harwood Heights will be federally defunded by the end of this month, according to Gov. Pritzker’s press secretary Jordan Abudayyeh and the Illinois Department of Public Health. “As coronavirus cases continue to rise nationally, President Trump admitte...
OPINION: #HotGirlsForBernie offers new ways for young voters to connect
Madi Garcia, Contributing Writer
February 3, 2020
The viral hashtag on Twitter, #HotGirlsForBernie, demonstrates how the youth is becoming more politically involved through social media. On the hashtag, young people everywhere post selfies and claim endorsing 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders makes you attractive too. “I’m voting for...
New details emerge about DePaul alum’s role in Russia investigation
Benjamin Conboy & Brian Pearlman, Editor-in-Chief & Nation & World Editor
April 22, 2019
New information about how George Papadopoulos, a DePaul alumnus who became the unlikely match that sparked the Russia investigation, has come to light in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, a redacted version of which was made public Thursday morning. The report details how Papadopoulos, who g...
Mueller report released
Brian Pearlman, Nation & World Editor
April 22, 2019
It’s finally here. A partially-redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report was released to the public April 18, almost two years after the former FBI director was appointed in May 2017 by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The report has cost taxpayers tens of millio...
Trump free speech executive order complicates DePaul’s history with controversial speakers
Bianca Cseke, Online Editor
April 8, 2019
DePaul officials do not yet know how the university will be affected by a recent executive order from President Donald Trump. Trump’s order requires colleges and universities to “promote free and open debate” on their campuses. Free speech at DePaul has long been controversial, with the university having a histor...
Candidates court college voters: As politicians turn to social media to expand their reach, some are proving more successful than others
Bianca Cseke, Copy Editor
February 18, 2019
When Sen. Kamala Harris’ communications director, Lily Adams, posted a video of Harris dancing to Cardi B’s “I Like It” about two weeks ago, she probably thought it would help make the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate more relatable to young voters. It didn’t. In fact, most of the responses ...
Transparency International: World is facing ‘crisis in democracy’
Brian Pearlman, Nation & World Editor
February 18, 2019
For the first time since 2011, the U.S. has fallen out of the top 20 countries on anti-corruption group Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perception Index. With a score of 71, it sits between France, which scored 72, and the United Arab Emirates, which scored 70. The lowest-scoring count...
Trump’s business failings foretold the shutdown
Lacey Latch, Arts & Life Editor
January 14, 2019
On Dec. 11, President Donald Trump stated that he “would be proud” to shutdown the government in the name of border security, namely over funding for a border wall. One month later, Trump seems to have accomplished yet another feat in which he can be proud: forcing hard-working federal employees to ...
Nation & World Briefs: December 13
December 13, 2018
Turkey train crash leaves 7 dead, dozens injured A high-speed train hit a railway engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday, killing seven people and injuring 46 others, officials and news re said. The 6:30 a.m. (0330 GMT) train from Ankara to the ce...
