Articles by Kate Morris

“I’m ready to celebrate,” Matthew Clough said, reflecting back on a year that began with no guarantees. Eleven months ago, Clough founded Stone + Cloth, a socially-motivated backpack company based out of Downtown Los Angeles. Every bag is made in the US and each one purchased supports a child’s education in Tanzania. “Tomorrow we’re launching a new product," He reported. "Next year I’ll be hiring so I can focus entirely on building the brand.” Though inspiring, Clough’s story of good fortune ...

Credit: Kate Morris It has been over two weeks since Hurricane Sandy rolled into the New York tri-state area, and the eastern seaboard is slowly coming back to life. Power has been restored to millions who lost it during the superstorm, in New York City limited subway and bridge transit has been restored, and rescue and relief workers are working hard to pick up the pieces. There is still a great deal of work left to do. More than 80 homes in Breezy Point alone have burned to the ground. In t...

Credit: Digital Trends After the focus on President Obama’s election subsided, global media turned its attention to another scandal within the halls of American government. The extramarital debacle of CIA head, General Petraeus, and questionable e-mail exchanges between Afghanistan commander, General George Allen, and a Florida woman. Both scandals were unearthed by the FBI through hacking into the generals’ e-mail accounts. Yesterday, Google released its biannual transparency report on its of...

In an exclusive interview with Russia Today television in Damascus on Friday, Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, told reporters he has no plans to step down from his post – despite nearly 20 months of ongoing internal violence in criticism of his governing practices. "I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country. I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria." The president’s refusal to leave the country will likely do nothing to slow the n...

Credit: ABC In the wee hours last Wednesday morning, Mitt Romney faced somber on-lookers in Boston. The GOP candidate gave the president his blessing, and receded from the race. It was official, Obama, and America’s Democratic Party, triumphed on Election Day. Barack Obama took the stage in Chicago with his family and announced victory. “The freedom which so many Americans have fought for and died for,” he told the boisterous crowd, “come with responsibilities as well as rights.” In light of ...

Every four years, on the Tuesday after November’s first Monday, American citizens will walk, drive, bus, train to their designated voting polls across the nation. Perhaps they’ll buy a cupcake from a nearby bake sale, some will leave with various congratulatory buttons and stickers, and, somewhere along the way these eligible voters will collectively decide on the next president of the United States along with multiple ballot measures and local candidates. The polls open tomorrow. Now that the ...

Credit: NYdailynews.com BROOKLYN, NY – They say only the strong survive in New York, and nothing solidifies the motto more than the events that have occurred over the past seven days. Early last week, hurricane Sandy made landfall in the northeast, and the East Coast is still dealing with devastating damages. New York is struggling to recover after the storm that devestated the tri-state area. More than 122,000 New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut residents have sought out federal assistance ...

Credit: The Washington Independent It was a January evening nearly three years ago when high school and college kids gathered for a birthday celebration in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. They did not notice the twenty hired assassins pull up outside. Around midnight, the gunmen, working for the Mexican cartel, La Linea, made their move; opening fire on nearly sixty innocent kids. Then the hit men sped off, leaving fourteen dead and twelve wounded. An estimated 60,000 Mexicans have died in turf war cro...

Credit: TIME.com On Thursday Hamas launched over 80 missiles from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, injuring at least six civilians. Israeli forces retaliated immediately with air strikes, leaving a reported four Hamas members dead. This dramatic resurgence of violence came on the coat tails of two heavily symbolic agreements specific to this volatile region. The first came on Tuesday, after Qatar’s emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani visited the Gaza Strip. This marked a historic arriv...