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  The Trail has received various notes regarding the lead story of the 11/08 issue, “University Investigates Alleged Mishandling of University Torah.” As reported in the corrections of this issue, The Trail recognizes the factual errors in the piece. Per The Trail’s policy, these are corrected in the follow-up issue. The Trail is working with the appropriate groups to rectify any harm caused, including the potential for further coverage. I recognize the frustration caused by the article. The factual issues notwithstanding, I continue to fully stand behind the intention and reporting...

By Lina McDonald   Former President Donald J. Trump made history on Tuesday, Nov. 5, becoming only the second president to be re-elected to office after an electoral defeat. Trump defeated the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, after obtaining a total of 312 electoral votes and the popular vote.     The executive branch isn’t the only section of the government that will be under Republican control: the party took control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Supreme Court is also controlled by a conservative majority. Chris Kendall,...

By Grace Farrell   A person was declared dead at Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in October, the second death at the migrant detention center this year and the fourth since 2006. The individual was identified as Jose Manuel Sanchez-Castro, a 36-year-old citizen of Mexico. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which oversees the privately-owned facility, has not disclosed the cause of Sanchez-Castro’s death, but the Tacoma Police Department cited natural causes. Sanchez-Castro died shortly after an inspection of the facility was conducted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...

By Mercer Stauch   On Nov. 6, 2024, library student employee August Grey (‘27) discovered and reported vandalism in Collins Memorial Library’s main floor men’s restroom. The message, written before the 2024 presidential election, read: “I hope Trump wins so that pedo men stop going into women’s bathrooms.” The message was accompanied by a swastika symbol and the acronym “KKK.”   Security Services, which chose not to comment due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, removed the vandalism and filed a report within an hour of Grey’s alert. Before that,...

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...