In what some call the "largest protest in human history," hundreds of thousands of farmers, mainly from the northwestern states of Punjab and Haryana in India, marched towards the nation's capital, Delhi,...
On January 28, an 84-year-old Thai man Vicha Ratanapakdee was shoved to the ground by 19-year-old Antoine Watson in San Francisco. This act was captured on video and was widely shared around the world...
In the past two weeks, Texas was hit with the biggest winter storms ever faced in the state, leaving millions of people without power. Fear and apprehension spread around the state as to what will happen...
On February 18, NASA successfully landed the Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars, their most advanced rover mission to date, named Mars 2020. The 300 million mile journey took 7 months to complete,...
Every year, some of the school’s most passionate and well-beloved students are elected by their peers to help lead the high school. Student Council has always been a major part of PDS life, organizing...
Jamie Creasi, Online Staff Writer
• February 15, 2021
On Wednesday, January 20 at 12 PM EST, President Joseph Biden was officially sworn into office. Only minutes before that, Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Black and Asian-American female vice...
After being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March of 2020, COVID-19 has upended our lives, transforming the world as we know it. Months of staying quarantined inside, wearing...
Arjun Ray, Online Staff Writer
• February 12, 2021
For nearly half a decade, GameStop, a haven for gaming culture aficionados, had been in decline. As gaming-related transactions have shifted online, the chain has seen rapid drops in revenue and popularity....
In December 2020, a group of Long Island healthcare workers were among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Since then, Moderna has also put forth a vaccine approved by the Food and...
It’s been over a month since Pfizer’s vaccine has been released for general public use, but the pandemic is still going on, and the majority of people haven’t been vaccinated yet. Which begs the...
Jason Ma, Online Staff Writer, Environmental Science Column Associate
• January 27, 2021
What caused the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests? How did originally peaceful demonstrations escalate into violent clashes between citizens and police? Looking back, what can we learn and conclude about the...
On January 6, far-right Trump supporters joined together and rioted at the United States Capitol in order to overturn the results of the November 2020 election and avenge his loss to Joe Biden, now the...
