When shopping for new skin care products, how do you choose which brand to try when faced with so many options? Do you trust recommendations from a friend? Swear by beauty influencers? Read random reviews online? While these are all great ways to discover new products, sometimes it is best to go with the most popular and trusted option...

July 30 is Paperback Book Day, and what better way to celebrate than by picking up a copy of one of Jenna Bush Hager's Read with Jenna book club picks? While many of the books chosen in recent months are still only sold as hardcovers, there are 18 books available in paperback since beginning the book club in March of 2019...

Summer is all about making memories, and some of the best can happen right in the comfort of your own backyard. From nostalgic traditions like roasting marshmallows to tapping into your competitive spirit and playing a new game, there are so many ways to bring family and friends together this season...

“The struggle for justice doesn’t end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davis’ who came before me and all the ones who will come after me,” said Troy Anthony Davis. On Sept. 21, 2011 at 11:08 p.m., Davis was wrongfully executed by the state of Georgia for a murder he did not commit...

At an online event, Texas politician Beto O’Rourke offered American University students his perspective on some of the most hot-button topics in politics today, such as voting rights, gun control and immigration...

If you’re like many of us, you’ll react with a groan to reminders that September has been named “National Self-Improvement Month.” Improvement? Given this year’s events, you may be busy enough just stumbling along in your usual imperfect way, waiting until Jan. 1 to take stock of your life, resolve to change—and then, quite likely, blow it...

In the days leading up to a historic presidential election, Andrew Yang virtually visited American University and spoke with students about the election, his “Freedom Dividend” and his relationship with the Asian American community. Yang is an entrepreneur, nonprofit leader and former Democratic presidential candidate. His campaign gained recognition for his signature policy of the “Freedom Dividend,” or a universal basic income (UBI), of $1,000 a month to every American adult...

The death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and many other Black Americans in recent months has sparked a recent wave of momentum in the Black Lives Matter Movement. These movements have led many communities, including communities of color, to evaluate their own contributions to racism and to start dismantling those harmful traditions. A conversation on anti-Blackness in the Latinx community was brought to American University students through a zoom event organized by the American University...

Starting last fall, the American University art community grew a little bigger with the introduction of MotorMouth, a student-run sustainable fashion brand that has brought together artists and creators alike. Created by Muskan Kaur, a sophomore Legal Studies major with a minor in Philosophy, and Tara Smith, a sophomore Public Health major, MotorMouth is a sustainable fashion brand focused on upcycling clothing. With the help of other student artists, the MotorMouth team takes thrifted clothing...

WASHINGTON – Residents at a Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood meeting Monday night voiced their concerns about an increase in noise, violence and littered bottles as a result of a strip club that recently opened in the area. The new club, Assets, is located at 1805 Connecticut Ave. NW; it is replacing the club Royal Palace. While Assets is located within the boundaries of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B, because it is 600 feet away from ANC 2D – in the Sheridan-Kalorama neighborhood – the two commissions share joint jurisdiction...

RIVER VALE, N.J.—Anti-deer hunt advocates continue to push back on a proposed bow hunt, voicing their opposition at the June 24 meeting of the Township Council. Citing a spike in deer–vehicle collisions, crops and landscaping damage, and impacts from Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases, Mayor Glen Jasionowski and the council have said they will approve a hunt, which the only deer management option that state wildlife regulators sanction. Following a four-day drone survey of River Vale i

WASHINGTON – The 45-minute commute to Howard University and back again is a trip many black women on American University’s campus know well – and one Trinity Balla hopes to end. Balla, an American sophomore from Oakland, California, quickly learned as a freshman that if she wanted to buy the products she needed for her hair she would have to travel beyond the surroundings of her own campus and visit Howard, located in Washington's Shaw neighborhood. As a public health major, Balla has a passion for helping others...

WASHINGTON – When Mei Tomko came to American University, she found what she had always been looking for: a community. Growing up in York, Pennsylvania, Tomko knew she was different from the people who surrounded her. Adopted from China, Tomko was one of the only Asian Americans in her area – and while her parents worked hard to keep her connected to Chinese culture, that cultural understanding did not extend beyond her home...

NORTHERN VALLEY AREA, N.J.—Abortion became a clarion call for women throughout the United States—and in the Northern Valley area—like never before after Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ellen Ivey signed anti-abortion legislation May 14 that many worry threatens more than 40 years of Roe v. Wade protections. The strikingly restrictive ban makes it a felony for a doctor to perform or attempt an abortion during any stage of pregnancy. There is no exemption for cases of rape or incest. The Alabama sta

NORWOOD, N.J.—The Norwood Public Library will be closed until further notice due to a flood on the main floor that was discovered in the early morning of Saturday, July 20. According to Sally Diaz, the president of the Board of Trustees for the Norwood library, a water line feed to the main floor women’s bathroom burst in the night. The fire department and police arrived at the library and shut off the water because the fire sensors were set off at 7:15 a.m. The water leaked through the whole...

HAWORTH, N.J.—Mayors from Pascack Valley and Northern Valley towns said they’re looking for more specifics following a June 11 information session hosted by Suez North America on the utility’s efforts to reduce lead in customers’ drinking water system-wide. At least one said the work is long overdue. Most said their residents had reached out to them in concern, and all participants we spoke to agreed the utility’s outreach was motivated and welcome. Tables at the forum, at the Suez Haworth Wat