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This Sept. 16, 2013 photo, Donald Trump appears on the "Fox & friends" television program in New York.  He's been a real estate mogul, a tabloid fixture and a reality TV star. And now Donald Trump, perennial self-promoter, is toying with the idea of challenging New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Trump, saying the state's high taxes and tight gun-control laws make the popular Democratic incumbent vulnerable, has met with Republican leaders and has pledged to spend tens of millions of dollars on a potential campaign.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

What You Need to Know: Tortuous Trump Transition

Olivia Boyd, News Editor December 6, 2016

The Republicans are coming! Not only has a Republican been elected into office, Donald J. Trump, but many of those elected into the House of Representatives are also Republicans. Trump’s transition...

In this Nov. 1, 2016, photo, a voter is reflected in the glass frame of a poster while leaving a polling site in Atlanta, during early voting ahead of the Nov. 8 election day. If all goes smoothly, the American people will choose a new president on Tuesday, the Electoral College will affirm the election and either Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump will take the oath of office Jan. 20.  (AP Photo/David Goldman)

What You Need to Know: Electoral College

Olivia Boyd, News Editor December 6, 2016

The Electoral College, a system put in place by the founding fathers to act like a safety net in case the people of the United States made the wrong choice in pertaining to the election of the president....

Protesters against the construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline block a highway in near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Law enforcement officials have asked people protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline to vacate an encampment on private land, and the protesters said no. Protesters are trying to halt construction of the pipeline they fear will harm cultural sites and drinking water for the Standing Rock Sioux. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

What you need to know: Dakota Access Pipeline

Brooklyn Norrell, Student Life Editor November 2, 2016

Updated on December 12th at 11:00 am. The Dakota Access Pipeline is a massive plan to “enable domestically produced light sweet crude oil from North Dakota to reach major refining markets in a more...

Police fire teargas as protestors converge on downtown following Tuesday's police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

What you need to know: North Carolina riots

Brooklyn Norrell, Student Life Editor September 23, 2016

Updated on December 1, 2016 at 8:50 am. Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by police officer Brentley Vinson on Tuesday September 20, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The police were not...

Paul Harrison, center, carries a counter-protest sign at the Stanford University graduation exercises, Sunday, June 12, 2016, at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, Calif. Women's advocacy organizations are urging a California agency to take action against the judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. Harrison argued that the assault was not indicative of a "rape culture" at the university, and unfairly blamed the school for the attack by a man who just happened to be one of their students.(AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

What you need to know: Brock Turner

Periscope staff September 23, 2016

As a staff, CHS Periscope will be highlighting the important national and international topics that appear in the news this school year. We are doing this so that the student body knows what is happening...

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