Melissa Duda News Today

On Jan. 20, 2025, either Joe Biden or Donald Trump will be sworn in as President of the United States. The difference between those two outcomes will have colossal ramifications on the lives of Americans and people around the world. In separate op-eds published by The Daily in the last week, two Northwestern students advocated...

  Endeavor, the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, announced earlier this month it would buy 51% of World Wrestling Entertainment and merge the two companies under one name. This move would combine the biggest companies in mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, respectively, and form a powerful $21.4 billion conglomerate later this year....

  On March 9, bulldozers destroyed Bell Bowl Prairie. A high-quality remnant prairie in Rockford, Illinois, Bell Bowl contained one of the most undisturbed natural plant communities in the state. But now, that land has become an ordinary, dirt-dominated, vacuous construction landscape. The Greater Rockford Airport Authority owns the land on which Bell Bowl Prairie...

As the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine approaches, the world still isn’t any closer to a resolution. The United States is only escalating aggressive actions toward Russia, and there are no firm boundaries regarding when the U.S. will reject Ukrainian requests for more powerful weapons. Society seemingly refuses to recognize the ultimate outcome...

The COVID-19 pandemic jolted the labor union movement with workers risking their lives more than ever. The circumstances American workers faced — created by the pandemic and corporate responses to it — were a catalyst for the labor movement, and unions successfully emerged in major corporations like Starbucks, Amazon, Apple and Chipotle. Undoubtedly, each union...