Breaking the Bubble

Haley Mullen, Assistant News Editor

White House Communications Director Hope Hicks has announced that she will be leaving her position in the upcoming weeks. Hicks worked with Trump for three years after joining his campaign from her position at Ivanka Trump’s fashion company.

The president’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, has received a downgrade in his security clearance. His clearance was reduced from “Top-Secret” to “Secret” after the completion of his FBI background check.

International:

Indian actress and film producer, Sridevi Kapoor, was found dead Feb. 24 after an accidental drowning in a hotel bathtub in Dubai. The actress, who was known publicly as Sridevi, had appeared in over 300 films and is commonly referred to as the “First female superstar” of Bollywood. On Feb. 28, over 7,000 mourners paid their respects along Sridevi’s funeral procession in Mumbai, India.

Fifteen people were killed and forty were injured on Feb. 28 when a passenger and a cargo train collided in the Nile Delta north of Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said last year that an update of the historically under-funded rail system would cost 180 billion Egyptian points (about $10 billion). This follows an accident in August outside Alexandria, where 43 people were killed when two passenger trains collided.

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