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Byline: RICHARD PITTS This past week, the former President Donald Trump claimed that he would be arrested by New York City authorities on Tuesday. A New York Grand Jury, in [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS The Biden Administration recently approved a new oil drilling project in Alaska. A watered down version of the 'Willow Project,' spearheaded by firm ConocoPhillips, was approved by [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Alekseyevna, on Friday, Mach 17. The arrest warrant [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS This past Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. So far, the conflict has been defined by Ukrainian persistence, an international grain and energy [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS On Tuesday, Jan. 21, President Joe Biden traveled to New York to announce $292 million in funding for a new rail tunnel underneath the Hudson River to [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS In China, Protests Over Zero Covid and Political Freedoms Over the weekend, protests began in China over the country's Zero Covid Policy. The Zero Covid Policy is [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS DEVELOPING: A Russian-produced missile struck the Polish village of Przewodow, 15 miles from Ukraine's border, killing two people working on a farm, according to a statement by [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS American voters will head to the polls to cast their ballots for the 2022 United States midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8. In play are 35 of [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS What makes a slice of pizza good? You can ask anyone this question and get about a thousand answers. The crust, tomato, cheese, toppings, how long it's [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS From Oct. 6-9, Monmouth University's Model United Nations team competed in the Boston Regional Conference, referred to as BarMun. The conference took place in Boston's Park Plaza [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS In August, US President Joe Biden announced a program aimed at forgiving a portion of the total student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 per [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS On Thursday, Oct. 6, U.S. President Joe Biden issued a general pardon for those convicted of simple possession of marijuana on a federal level. Biden also announced [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Monmouth University's Guardians Club held an on-campus event, inviting Detective Kayla Santiago of the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office to discuss aspects of her job on Wednesday, Sept. [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS A snap election was held in Italy this past month, as the previous Italian government--coined the Draghi Government after the name of its Prime Minister--found itself in [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Ukraine Gains Ground in Kherson Following the announcement by the Russian Federation that it will be annexing four Ukrainian Oblasts, Ukrainian forces in the southern half of [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Azerbijan Invades Armenia On Sept. 12 Azeri and Armenian forces engaged each other on their immediate border. Fighting did not stick to this region for long as [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS As Russian forces begin a new offensive centered around the Ukrainian oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk, The Outlook has conducted an interview with Katerina Prokopishina, a Ukrainian [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS The War in Ukraine has had a global reach - and it has also impacted those who are a part of our Monmouth community. From faculty to [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS With the withdrawal of Russian military forces from in and around Kyiv's suburbs, Ukrainian forces re-entering towns have made a shocking discovery: bodies covering the streets, sites [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Delegations from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul this week to begin another round of peace talks between the two countries since Russia's invasion last month. The [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden's nomination to fill Justice Breyer's seat to the Supreme Court and the first Black woman nominated to the position, had her [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS In the early hours of the Feb. 24, 6 a.m. Moscow Time, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced what he called a 'special military operation' in Eastern Ukraine. [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS As the editor of the politics section here at the Outlook, I find it important to stress that the contents this article will go over may be [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Concerns over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine have continued to grow this past week, with six Russian naval vessels entering the Black Sea amidst the highest [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS California's state legislature decided on Monday that a single payer healthcare bill, AB 1400, would not be brought to the floor for a vote after its author [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Over the past several months, significant events have impacted the American political system. From failed legislation, to Supreme Court decisions, updates concerning the Jan. 6 House Committee, [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Upon the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has witnessed the decline of the global economy, alongside the proliferation of social and political unrest. These uncertain [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS Tensions between Russia and the West have been greatly exacerbated lately, with concerns of conflict on both sides becoming a dominant fear. US intelligence agencies warned their [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS A jury has found Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two people and wounded another in Kenosha last year following civil unrest, not guilty on all charges. As the [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS A House committee's investigations into the events that unfolded in the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 are beginning to ramp up significantly. A report recently published [...]

Byline: RICHARD PITTS After a fraught round of voting in Congress, two large infrastructure bills, one bipartisan and one Democratic, are simultaneously facing heavy opposition from the GOP and a [...]