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With the Jan. 6 Capitol riot serving as a catalyst, VICE explores the conspiracy movement QAnon in a new three-part docuseries, QAnon: The Search for Q. (Photo via VICE)

QAnon: how a conspiracy theory played a key role in the U.S. Capitol riot

Gwen Mahler, Staff Writer April 7, 2021

What is QAnon? In the span of time since the pandemic began, there is a good chance that while scrolling through social media that you’ve come across a post mentioning the term “QAnon,” a conspiracy...

Our phones let us catch up on what we missed in the news, and be angry about it from the comfort of our bed sheets.
(Photo by Alexander Musa)

Keeping up with the news today is important, but it can be unhealthy

Alexander Musa, Staff Writer October 20, 2020

There’s a lot going on in the world right now, even with daily life ground to a near halt thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s getting to the point where I’ve experienced genuine mental exhaustion...

(Left) Tracy Mapes staff photo from his time on the AR Current in the spring of 2016. (File photo)

(Right) Tracy Mapes mugshot at the Santa Clara Police Department on Nov. 26 after being arrested for allegedly dropping anti-media leaflets over Levi Stadium. (Photo courtesy of Santa Clara Police Department)

ARC student arrested for allegedly flying drone over NFL game

Luis Gael November 28, 2017

[UPDATED] An American River College student was arrested on Sunday after allegedly dropping anti-media leaflets from a drone over Levi’s Stadium and Oakland-Alameda Stadium during two different NFL games.  Tracy...

Students respond to Student Trustee Cameron Weavers,(Left), Holocaust skepticism made in an interview with The Current Sept. 16.  Students share varying levels of support, outrage and ambiguity for Weavers comments. (File Photo)

ASB members express support for Trustee ‘skeptical’ of the Holocaust

John Ferrannini, Barbara Harvey, and Jordan Schauberger September 30, 2015

By John Ferrannini, Jordan Schauberger and Barbara Harvey Members of the Associated Student Body student government have expressed support for embattled Los Rios Student Trustee Cameron Weaver after...

Cameron Weaver protests at the annual March In March in downtown Sacramento last spring. Weaver was elected as Student Trustee last spring, a paid position on the Los Rios Community College Districts Board of Trustees. (File photo)

Board of Trustees: Holocaust comments ‘abhorrent’

John Ferrannini and John Ferrannini September 19, 2015

The president of the Los Rios Board of Trustees denounced the comments of Student Trustee Cameron Weaver regarding the Holocaust Saturday, calling them “troubling, misguided and abhorrent.” Dustin...

Cameron Weaver speaks at the candidate forums during the student elections of the spring 2015 semester. Weaver, who was elected as Los Rios student trustee, recently cast doubt on the historical account of the Holocaust and said that being a conspiracy theorist is a title I wear proudly. (File photo)

Student trustee ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust

John Ferrannini and Barbara Harvey September 18, 2015

By Barbara Harvey and John Ferrannini Los Rios Student Trustee Cameron Weaver cast doubt on the historical accounts of the Holocaust and the Sept. 11 attacks and discussed his views on antidepressants...

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