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The Student News Site of St. Joseph's University

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The Student News Site of St. Joseph's University

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Playing politics in East Palestine, Ohio: A prelude to 2024 elections

Patrick Adams March 7, 2023

It has now been over one month since the Feb. 3 train crash in East Palestine, Ohio, and the public still lacks answers. The subsequent emergency burning of chemicals released an ominous, dark toxic cloud...

2022 Midterms roundup: Red ripple casts doubts on Trump

Patrick Adams November 15, 2022

While traditionally midterms tend to be a disaster for the president’s political party, especially with 57% of Americans disapproving of President Joe Biden’s presidency, the Democrats managed to...

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GABRIELLA GUZZARDO ’23 /THE HAWK

Pennsylvania senate debate: Fetterman flops

Patrick Adams November 2, 2022

Since the day of the primaries, John Fetterman has been the clear favorite in his Senate race against Dr. Mehmet Oz. Poll after poll showed the Democratic nominee with a large lead — and then the debate...

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The Supreme Court in focus: The start of a new term 

Patrick Adams October 26, 2022

The Supreme Court reconvened on Oct. 3 after its summer recess to begin a term that brings both new cases and a new associate justice. In just her first week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has already...

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Trouble on the Horizon

Patrick Adams September 21, 2022

Why the recession might become global It's never a good sign when economists are debating whether the economy is about to fall off a cliff. After the U.S. economy recorded a second quarter in a row...

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Student loan forgiveness

Patrick Adams September 8, 2022

Temporary aid to a growing crisis America does not have a student loan problem, it has a student loan crisis. Since 2007, student loan debt has increased 144% to around 1.7 trillion dollars. As the...

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Problems at the Pump

Patrick Adams March 30, 2022

The origins of expensive gas While many Americans are emotionally impacted by the ongoing war in Ukraine, it has impacted all Americans in a somewhat unexpected way. Namely, the record breaking gas...

War in Europe

Patrick Adams March 2, 2022

Russia invades Ukraine Just before midnight Eastern time on Feb. 23, which was 6 a.m. the next day in Ukraine, Russian troops and tanks began pouring over the border checkpoints in Crimea, Donbass,...

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Olympics turn cold shoulder to human rights

Patrick Adams February 8, 2022

Why we should boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games In 1936, the world participated in the first “Genocide Games.” Nations from around the world gathered in Berlin as Adolf Hitler opened the Summer...

Russia’s Ukraine gamble

Patrick Adams January 26, 2022

How NATO backed Russia into a corner In 1984, during a time of heightened tensions between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, former U.S. President...

Artemis picking up where Apollo left off

Patrick Adams November 17, 2021

NASA’s plan to put humanity back on the moon permanently   NASA’s Artemis Program is named based on the Greek myth of Artemis and Apollo. Artemis is the twin sister of Apollo, just as the Artemis...

Russia’s rigged legislative election

Patrick Adams September 28, 2021

The power to put in votes On Sept. 19, the final few Russians casted their ballots in the election for the Russian State Duma, Russia’s national legislature. This began the government’s monumental...

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