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The Spartan Speaks

2020 Presidential Election Live Results

Lauryn Pietrzak, Broadcast/Video Editor November 3, 2020

The 2020 Presidential Election is this evening and the results from the polls throughout the country are gradually coming in. As ballots are being counted, the winner of the electoral college votes from...

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar ranks first on list of all 100 senators with bills signed into law in the current congress, according to data from GovTrak.

“The Future Is Female”: Women In Politics

Cari Spencer, Editor in Chief November 6, 2018

Cari Spencer Editor in Chief It was January of 2017 when women in pink “pussy” hats marched across Washington, demanding their rights ensured and their indignation at Donald Trump’s election...

President-Elect Donald Trump in New Hampshire.

President-Elect Trump Plans First 100 Days

Hannah Rippberger, Staff Reporter December 6, 2016

On Nov. 8 Donald Trump won the forty-fifth Presidency of the United States. Whether people like him or not, wanting our new president to fail is like wanting a pilot to crash a plane we are all on. According...

Police chase on Capitol Hill

October 9, 2013

On Oct. 3, police in Washington D.C. were taken on a car chase. According to the Associated Press, the chase started when a women in a black Infiniti tried to drive through a White House barricade. The...

Minnesotans display their votes

October 8, 2012

httpv://youtu.be/_woPRNegpUc Margeaux Dittrich is the Arts and Entertainment Editor for The Spartan Speaks.

News from around the world: March

March 16, 2012

South America Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez returned to work recently after a successful surgery to remove a lesion from his pelvis. Chavez was flown to Havana for the operation, where he was operated...

World News Graphic/ Taylor Werdel

News from around the world

February 22, 2012

Middle East On Feb. 6, a factory in Lahore, Pakistan collapsed due to a gas explosion, trapping several people and killing five. The factory, which produces veterinary medical products, sent jolts...

World News January

January 26, 2012

Europe Protests in Budapest, Hungary have escalated recently with tens of thousands of participants in opposition to the changes to the body of law put in place by Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban’s...

Candidates fight for top spot in 2012 election

October 28, 2011

The next presidential election is not set to take place until the sixth of November 2012, and candidates are already forming a platform and debating for the election. The Republican nomination for the...

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