By Liliana Chai April. 5, 2026 Juliana Shin Art With a bat emblem sewn across his chest and a billowing black cape trailing behind him, a masked superhero emerges out of the shadows onto the streets of San Jose, fighting injustice. Known as the Batman of San Jose, the activist has spent nearly eight years supporting the unhoused population and speaking out on civic issues affecting vulnerable communities. With just under a million residents, San Jose faces a per

By Dylan Xie April. 5, 2026 On Jan. 30, hundreds of students across the Bay Area walked out of classrooms in a coordinated protest against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Prettiby ICE officials in Minnesota on Jan. 7 and Jan. 24, respectively. What began as social media posts turned into a full-scale movement that mobilized students across the nation, including around 300 students from L

By Ariel Lee Feb 15, 2026 On Dec. 3, 2025, an Instagram photo of eight Branham High School students forming a Nazi swastika with their bodies on the school’s football field circulated the internet, prompting reports of a possible hate crime and an investigation by their school and district. This image, taken on the same day it was posted, included a caption quoting Nazi leader Adof Hitler’s Reichstag speech in German, which supported the extermination of Jews. A

By Mahika Khosla Feb 14, 2026 Isabella Zhu Art On Nov. 28, 2025 at around 5p.m., a 17-year-old pulled out a firearm in Westfield Valley Fair shopping mall and shot at the chest of a man wearing a hat with the letter “m”—a symbol of the Sureno criminal street gang, and a rival to the teenager’s gang. As the shooting ensued, two women were injured and the entirety of the mall’s Black Friday crowd desperately evacuated. The charges for the suspect and his three acc

By Ayush Deshpande   Dec. 11, 2025 Dilara Varoglu Art On Nov. 4, several elections were held across the state of California, leading to measures such as Proposition 50, Santa Clara County Measure A, Delano Measure B and McFarland Measure C being passed. Proposition 50 authorizes California State legislature to begin a mid-cycle redistricting of the state’s congressional maps. Measure A will raise the county sales tax to 9.75% for the next five years, and Delano M

By Andrew Xie Dec. 11, 2025 On Oct. 1, the U.S. government entered a shutdown for the first time in seven years. After both chambers of Congress failed to agree on a spending bill to propose to President Donald Trump, many government services were either partially or completely stopped. Among these disruptions was the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal program that provides monthly food benefits for millions of low-income households in

By Lauren Law Nov. 12, 2025 A crisp white and blue circular emblem marks the iconic logo of the Bay Area as it flashes before commuters’ eyes on the side of a sleek, silver train speeding through San Francisco. The bold letters spell out the acronym of Bay Area Rapid Transit: BART. Yet trains are not the only location where this logo can be spotted—recently, the logo has also been seen on canvas tote bags, baseball caps and water bottles displayed behind the gla