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Southern California residents have been evacuated as a new wildfire spreads through Orange County, California.  The fire was first detected on Oct. 28th and named the Silverado Fire.  High winds and a naturally dry environment have allowed the fire to spread dangerously fast while covering 28,000 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and […]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is hearing a case that is challenging the mask mandate by Gov. Tony Evers that requires people in Wisconsin to wear masks in public places. The lawsuit aims to overturn and end the current statewide mandate arguing that this mandate is unlawful. The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed on Oct. 28 that […]

The 2020 election came down to close races in several key states. In Wisconsin, determined student campus organizers for both the Republican and Democratic Parties helped drive record youth voter registration, and potentially record youth voter turnout. According to the Chairwoman of UWM College Republicans, Jena Frett, across the state the Republican Party was able […]

As the conversation around mental health in athletics continues to evolve, a recent push to focus on mental health and mental health allyship from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee athletic department began in the form of a new initiative titled the Green Bandana Project. Anya Athan, a senior on the track and field team at UWM, spearheaded […]

UWM senior Emma Fath has felt her mental health negatively spiral since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. She moved closer to campus in August for two classes that were set to be in person, only to find that they were moved online. Fath says being holed up in an apartment alone has contributed to […]

Five days into the 2020 presidential election, the protracted race was called in favor of the Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris by news media outlets. President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris will be inaugurated into office on Jan. 20, 2021. Regardless of this projected outcome, President Donald Trump has yet […]

Rappers such as Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Lil Pump and more have endorsed politician candidates for the upcoming 2020 elections. This has caused many rappers to trend on Twitter and cause controversy over Hip-Hop in politics. “In my opinion a lot of them(rappers) are doing this out of self-interest,” said Rapper Miesh during a phone […]

Election day turned into election week in 2020, as the presidential election took multiple days before the winner was announced. On Saturday, Nov. 7, it was announced by the news media that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election after securing swing-state Pennsylvania, unofficially making them President-elect and Vice-President elect. Before the announcement was […]

Election day goes on through hurricanes, fires, or even a pandemic. The precedent was set in the 1918 midterm during the Spanish Flu, where poll workers and voters alike wore face masks. This pandemic puts the older poll workers who are already at risk because of their weakened immune system at an even higher risk […]

UW students from organizations across Wisconsin formed a coalition to convince the University of Wisconsin System to divest in fossil fuels. Since March, they have been informing UW schools and their students of this challenge in order to have transparency within the UW system. The University of Wisconsin Divestment Coalition, or the UWDC, is a […]

Pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective. Over 43,000 people volunteered to participate in the company’s vaccine trial. Pfizer Inc. and their partner BioNTech SE gave each volunteer either two doses of the vaccine or a placebo. The study showed that less than 10% of those infected were […]

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer, in partnership with BioNTech, announced that they’ve developed a Covid-19 vaccine candidate that is more than 90 percent effective at about seven days after the dose. According to their press release, they are expecting to produce around 50 million doses of the vaccine by the end of 2020 and 1.3 billion doses in 2021.  The press release said that the testing included people who were given the vaccine and people who […]