By Andrew Benoit   Former President Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States, decisively defeating Vice President Kamala Harris by carrying most battleground states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina and Georgia. Harris, who conceded to Trump on Wednesday, consistently underperformed compared to Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Despite the effort by the Harris campaign to target moderate Republicans and suburban white women, which included an endorsement by Liz Cheney and a promise to put a Republican in Harris’s cabinet, registered Republicans voted for Trump at...

By Albert Chang-Yoo   On the morning of Oct. 28, a ballot box in Vancouver, Washington went up in flames. The incident was reported to local police around 4 a.m. and followed a string of attempted arson incidents within the Vancouver-Portland metropolitan area. Footage of ballots burning at the scene was filmed by local news outlet KATU and quickly spread over social media. Vancouver, about 135 miles south of Tacoma, is in the midst of a hotly contested Congressional race that has attracted national attention.    Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey told...

By Emmet O’Connor   The world seems to be going wonky. Whether it is abnormal weather, the decaying state or international plagues, something seems out of whack. For many university students, the upcoming end of the world does signal one thing: an end to student loans.    If the world does descend into a fiery hellscape, there will be some comfort in the fact that no one will have to fill out a FAFSA application again.. One student that was approached said “it would be nice to not have to pay...

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