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By Avi Koenig

I’m sure many of you reading this article remember your senior year of high school. A hectic fall trying to balance college applications with piling...

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Johnson and Johnson Vaccine Halted Over Blood Clot Concerns

By Sammy Ali

The CDC and the FDA called on the U.S. to pause the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after six recipients, all of them...

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India experiences record-breaking COVID-19 wave amid dangerous political climate

By Vaishali Patra

As countries across the world are continuing their vaccination efforts, India is descending into chaos due to mismanagement by its political leaders. With more than...

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QC/CUNY News

QC Student Government Elections 2021

By Jessica Alexander on April 26, 2021

Queens College conducted its annual student government and clubs election this April. The Knight News spoke with two current members of QC’s student government for...

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Op-Ed: Is a CUNY Education Worth It?

By Avi Koenig on April 26, 2021

I’m sure many of you reading this article remember your senior year of high school. A hectic fall trying to balance college applications with piling...

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Club Spotlight: Girls Who Code QC

By Afshana Falza on April 26, 2021

During the peak of the pandemic, staying connected with other peers had seemed almost impossible. A common sentiment among female students was that class discussions...

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SA Presidential candidates go head to head in live debate

By Anonymous on April 15, 2021

The two primary challengers for Queens College’s Student Government President seat met Thursday for a comprehensive debate. The debate, streamed live on Youtube, pitted incumbent...

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Cuomo’s New Tax Plan to Feed a Wealth of CUNY and SUNY Funds

By Ashley Simons on April 14, 2021

Governor Cuomo recently reached a deal with state legislators to institute a whopping $212 billion budget, increasing taxes on corporations and high-income earners in our...

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Climate change poses an existential threat all over the world to not just to our environment, but to our health and our communities. President Biden…

World News

House Judiciary Committee approves bill to study slavery reparations

By Vaishali Patra

On April 14th, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that was first introduced by the late Rep. John Conyers over 30 years ago. The...

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India experiences record-breaking COVID-19 wave amid dangerous political climate

By Vaishali Patra

As countries across the world are continuing their vaccination efforts, India is descending into chaos due to mismanagement by its political leaders. With more than...

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Daunte Wright, another unarmed death

By Samantha Galvez-Montiel

Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Officer Kim Potter in Minneapolis on April 11th just a few miles from the courthouse where Derek Chauvin,...

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Myanmar Beauty Pageant Contestant Speaks Out Against Injustice

By Raveena Nabi

In February of 2021, the Myanmar military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government via a military coup. As a result, the country has descended...

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How Mismanaged Waste has put Floridians in Danger. Are We Next?

By Nadia Rampersaud

Hundreds of Florida residents in the Tampa Bay area were instructed to evacuate their homes over Easter weekend due to a massive toxic waste leak...

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French Senate Votes in Favor of Banning the Hijab for Minors

By Arwa Ali

French lawmakers have continued to prove their commitment to utmost secularism by passing amendments that specifically target the French Muslim community at large. The measures,...

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NFTs: The New Bitcoin? (NFTs)

By Pascal Hyacinthe

Since the beginning of the year, the non-fungible token, or NFT, market cap has exploded—clocked at 1785% increase to the end of March (Forbes) and...

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