United with the Riots
Eunice Ahn, Photojournalist
June 10, 2020
Right when it seems like the world is calming down amidst the virus, another matter was brought up, which is the injustice against George Floyd due to police brutality. Even though it has been a tough time for everyone, there have still been some positive sides to the riots, as all fifty states of A...
Yorba Linda for #BlackLivesMatter
Caitlyn Truong, Editor-in-Chief
June 10, 2020
On Monday, May 25, George Floyd was killed with a police officer’s knee to his neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. For the following week, millions across the country and the world protested the demonstration of racist police brutality in a demand for reform and defunding. Many of these pr...
Looters Take Advantage of Protests Throughout the Country
Tiana Salisbury, Photojournalist
June 9, 2020
Throughout the United States, people are protesting in response to the death of George Floyd. In the midst of these protests, looters have been taking advantage of the current situation and have been stealing from hundreds of stores. Some looters have traveled in groups, where they could easily destroy...
Taiwan and its Success in Handling COVID-19
Sharon Sun, Photojournalist
June 8, 2020
In the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China, nations throughout the world have been left scrambling for hospital resources and frantically imposing lockdowns on the population. However, the island nation of Taiwan, despite its proximity of 180 kilometers (110 mi) to the Chinese mainland, ha...
Conspiracy: The Quiet Chaos in North Korea
Eunice Ahn, Photojournalist
June 8, 2020
Amidst the pandemic around the world, it came to people’s attention about Kim Jong-un’s unusual lack of appearance in public. Rumors spread like wildfire, as theories of his death were all over the internet. Due to lack of evidence, no one was sure whether he was dead or not, until he made his appea...
How the Coronavirus Will Impact the Future of Travel
Fiona Salisbury, Photojournalist
June 8, 2020
Travelling is one of the many things that have been taken away from people during the pandemic. As people around the world were forced to avoid crowded places and stay home, the entire travel industry faced losses unlike anything seen before. Due to the fear of travelling during the pandemic most vacati...
Coronavirus: Bad for Us, Good for National Parks
Tiana Salisbury, Photojournalist
June 4, 2020
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, national parks in the United States closed, thus preventing people from visiting. Regardless of their closure, on May 12, a woman illegally entered Yellowstone National Park. While taking pictures of the Old Faithful Geyser, she fell into a thermal feature and...
New Creature Discovered in the Ocean May Now be the World’s Largest Creature
Kylie de Best, Photojournalist
May 27, 2020
The ocean is filled with a variety of different creatures. From whales to zooplankton, ranging from the size of many school buses to sizes only seen through microscopes, we thought we have seen all the extreme sizes already. However, in a recent discovery, scientists discovered a gigantic creature measuring t...
What movies and events have been canceled because of Coronavirus?
Blake Kingsbury, Photojournalist
May 27, 2020
With the Coronavirus pandemic now having made its way all around the globe, many highly anticipated movies and events around the world have been postponed or canceled. This is, of course, since most movie theatres and event venues bring a very large number of people all together in one area, thus caus...
Household Pets and the Coronavirus
Emily Eslao, Photojournalist
May 23, 2020
As of now, there is no definite explanation as to the origin of the current strain of the coronavirus, or COVID-19. Still, “Scientific evidence overwhelmingly points to wildlife,” specifically bats, “as the most likely origin” (NPR). If such is the case, COVID-19 would be considered a “zoonot...
When Should Businesses Reopen?
Fiona Salisbury, Photojournalist
May 15, 2020
Around the world and in certain parts of the United States hit less hard by COVID-19, the economy is slowly opening back up for business. People who have lost jobs due to the virus are waiting for the day they can start working again and others are waiting to be able to dine in at their favorite resta...
Census and Coronavirus
Emily Eslao, Photojournalist
May 15, 2020
Amidst all the confusion of quarantine, there is still a need to carry out the programmed functions. As scheduled, the 2020 Census arrived just as it did in 2010. and as it did another ten years prior. The census is a legal obligation listed under the U.S. Constitution, meant to account for the United...
