SMC student-athletes find themselves in uncharted territory.

Ex-Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin is convicted of multiple counts of murder in the death of George Floyd.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are hoping to become MLB's first back-to-back champions in over two decades.

Los Angeles is facing a new battle in the ongoing war against the deadly coronavirus — a rush to vaccinate residents.

Election season comes to Santa Monica College.

Roughly one out of every 475 Los Angeles County residents has died from COVID-19 over the past year.

As the great American philosopher George “Dubya” Bush once said, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

Santa Monica College recently joined over 1,500 schools, organizations, and local governments across America, in reaffirming its commitment to tackling the climate crisis alongside the incoming Biden-Harris administration.

Democrats in Georgia are projected to flip both Republican-held U.S. Senate seats, according to the Associated Press, consolidating a unified government for the incoming Joe Biden administration. Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and Democratic candidate Jon Ossof defeated Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue.

The reverberations of the 2020 election are still being felt into the new year.

It’s easy to become numb to death, especially when it’s other people’s families and friends. Hearing the daily and collective statistics during the pandemic, it begins to feel like these numbers aren’t real people.

Watching the Masters Tournament this past weekend, I was reminded of a phrase coined by sportscaster Jim Nantz about the yearly event: “A tradition unlike any other.” What immediately came to mind wasn’t the Super Bowl of golf, but instead the long and storied tradition of the political left eating their own

While puzzling to those unfamiliar with it, the Electoral College is more American than apple pie.

As Veterans Day approaches this election year it’s more important than ever to remember what November 11 represents.

When Latora Green first decided to protest outside the Sherman Oaks Galleria on May 31, she couldn’t have anticipated how her life was about to change. Black Lives Matter protests were happening all throughout the country in response to George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers, with many happening in different neighborhoods of L.A. “I came out here [to protest] when it happened to George Floyd, but I didn’t stop,” said Green. “It’s bigger than that...I did it because it keeps happening. It’s sad, it’s disgusting, and we’re saying ‘enough is enough’.”

In what should come as a surprise to no-one, the first presidential debate of 2020 quickly devolved into a chaotic and cringe-worthy symbol of America’s current election climate.

Santa Monica College (SMC) kicks off the semester with a program geared to educate students and shift the culture and conversation around sexual violence.

SMC will begin the second year of its Title IX Leadership Program for Students this coming Thursday, Sept. 10. The free series of workshops are designed to raise awareness and promote student empowerment, particularly in the areas of sexual harassment and sexual assault.

It appears as though President Donald Trump’s May 29 proclamation that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” did not have its intended effect.

Snake oil selling is nothing new here in America, but the country’s dramatic descent into a public health epidemic has highlighted the dangers of disinformation and the rejection of scientific facts. With deaths from COVID-19 climbing into the tens of thousands across the country, new attention is being focused on the dangers of misleading the American public.

The true reality of Santa Monica College’s (SMC) future as a remote learning environment showed its face at the college’s Board of Trustees meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, which was held via Zoom. The discussion of possible technological shortfalls, severance of academic programs, and reopening development plans only scratched the surface of SMC’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) response.