This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UFL chapter.
Whether you were asleep at the switch or just need a solid recap of the biggest news events of last week that will surely carry over to the headlines this week, HC UFL’s newest series, That’s A Wrap, has you covered. Here are the headlines you should definitely know:
Sunday, March 10:
- A Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft crashed in Ethiopia, killing all 157 people on board.
- News breaks from Saturday that a woman was attacked by a jaguar at an Arizona zoo after jumping a barrier in order to get a photo, reports NPR.
Monday, March 11:
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told The Washington Post she isn’t in favor of impeaching President Trump. She said, “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.”
Tuesday, March 12:
- The FBI announces that 50 people took part in a scheme in order to enroll their children into college, an operation being called Operation Varsity Blues. These schemes included cheating on standardized tests or bribing college coaches and school officials to accept students as college athletes (even if the student in question never played the sport). Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are two of the individuals facing charges.
- An Australian judge sentences Cardinal George Pell to six years in prison for sexually abusing two boys, reports the Associated Press. He is the most senior Catholic official and the first bishop to be found guilty in a criminal court for sexually abusing minors
- A federal appeals court in Ohio upheld and a state anti-abortion law, which blocks public funding for Planned Parenthood, according to The Washington Post.
Wednesday, March 13:
- Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was sentenced to three and a half more years in prison. He will now serve a total of more than seven years in federal prison for financial crimes, according to POLITICO.
- The U.S. Senate passes a resolution to end U.S. involvement in Yemen war.
- A Nigerian school building collapses, killing 20 people (mostly children). 37 people were rescued alive.
- President Trump issues order to ground all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft in light of the Ethiopia crash that occurred Sunday.
- California Governor Gavin Newsom halts executions in the state. This gave a temporary reprieve for the 737 inmates on the state’s death row.
- Two gunmen opened fire at a school near São Paulo, Brazil, killing eight people, according to BBC.
Thursday, March 14:
- Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman, announces his 2020 campaign run for president. He lost his 2018 Senate race to incumbent Ted Cruz in Texas by roughly 2 points.
- Former Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh, who wrote the federal Title IX law, which bans discrimination against women in college admissions and sports, dies at age 91.
- Jussie Smollett pleads not guilty to all 16 charges stemming from an alleged hate crime hoax.
- Senate votes 59-41, approving a resolution to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration to fund money for a U.S. Mexico border wall, reports the New York Times. 12 Senate Republicans voted with all Senate Democrats.
Friday, March 15:
- 50 people were killed and 36 were hospitalized in a terrorist attack targeting two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
- President Trump issues his first veto, overruling Congress to protect his emergency declaration for border wall funding.
- A landslide in northern China killed seven people and left 13 others missing.
Saturday, March 16:
- The Washington state Senate passed a bill this week that would drop President Trump from the state’s 2020 presidential ballot until he releases his tax returns.
Sunday, March 17:
- Kristen Gillibrand, a senator from New York, officially announces her 2020 campaign run for President.
- A flash flood and mudslides in the mountainside villages in Indonesia’s easternmost province killed at least 50 people and injured 59 others.
- Data recovered from the black boxes from the Ethiopian plane that crashed last week revealed “similarities” to the Lion Air airplane crash in October 2018, reports CNN.
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