Makayla Mahoney Connector Editor On Sunday, Feb. 1, five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Alexander were released from an ICE processing center after being held there for more than a week. Their release comes after days of national outrage as a picture of the preschooler went viral online, showing him wearing his Spider-Man…
American citizens killed in Minneapolis ICE raids
Benjamin Heffner Connector Editor On January 7th, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed an American citizen during an immigration raid in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The victim, identified as 37-year-old mother and poet Renee Nicole Good, was in her car with her wife when they were surrounded by multiple ICE officers who screamed…
Congress set to release Epstein Files
Makayla Mahoney Connector Staff On Wednesday, Nov. 19, President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Transparency Act after it passed unanimously in the Senate the night before. This comes after weeks of continuous pressure to release the Epstein files, a promise that President Trump ran his 2024 campaign on. On Nov. 12, Representative of Arizona, Adelita…
Longest government shutdown ends
(Photo courtesy of Jacob Levin) “North Bridge Visitor Center in Concord” Benjamin Heffner Connector Editor After 43 days, on Nov. 12, President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan bill from both chambers of Congress, officially ending the longest government shutdown in American history. The bill was voted 60-40 in the Senate and 222-209 in the House. …
Zohran Mamdani: New York City’s Next Mayor
(Photo courtesy of abcnews.go.com) Zohran Mamdani during his winning speech. Tristin Henson Connector Editor So, he did it. Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election, receiving 50.4% of the vote. He is the first Muslim elected to this position in New York City, the first person of South Asian descent, an immigrant from Uganda,…
Americans struggle without SNAP benefits
Olivia O’Sullivan Connector Staff In the wake of the government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it would run out of funding to operate SNAP – the federal food assistance program – by November. The Trump administration previously stated that it would not be subsidizing November’s SNAP benefits with emergency funds. Before…
No Kings Protests 2.0
Olivia O’Sullivan Connector Contributor On October 18th, 2025, an estimated 7 million people participated in a peaceful demonstration against President Trump’s administration. With these numbers, No King’s Day 2.0 is marked as the largest single-day protest in American history, surpassing June’s attendance by a wide margin and marking a new level of public dissent. The…
Trump announces Tylenol link to autism
Makayla Mahoney Connector Staff On Monday, September 22nd, President Donald Trump took to the White House press podium to announce the Food and Drug Administration’s findings on an association between acetaminophen and autism. He warned that the FDA would now be notifying health officials to caution women against taking Tylenol while pregnant, as acetaminophen is…
