Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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An Amazon delivery driver has been praised online for helping an elderly lady and her granddaughter evacuate a burning house in New Jersey. On May 20, 30-year-old Wakie Medina was carrying out his deliveries in Woodbridge, New Jersey, when he noticed smoke coming out of one of the homes. "At…
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The Biden administration has received a mixed response after replacing the word "mothers" with "birthing people" in the 2022 fiscal year budget. The Maternal Health Guidance section of the proposed budget, which saw the ground-breaking use of the gender-neutral term, addressed efforts to "reduce maternal mortality rates and end race-based…
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Donald Trump has teased that he's working on a new writing project... and claims he's already turned down two deals. The former POTUS, 75, described his new venture as "the book of all books," but remained tight-lipped on what exactly the world can expect. Per Independent, in a statement issued…
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Joe Biden has said the Queen reminds him of his own mother after Her Majesty hosted and POTUS and FLOTUS over the weekend. The incumbent president, 78, and The Queen, 95, interacted at the G7 summit in Newquay, Cornwall on Friday, before taking tea together on Sunday. [caption id="attachment_1263113028" align="aligncenter"…
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A high school senior has selflessly donated her Harvard scholarship to another student. Per NBC News Boston, 17-year-old Fitchburg High School student Verda Tetteh was awarded a $40,000 scholarship by the academy to attend the prestigious ivy league university. Take a look at this news report on the teen's incredible…
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Kamala Harris has made history once again by becoming the first Vice President to join a Pride march. Harris made a surprise appearance at a Pride March in Washington on Saturday (June 13) and took the opportunity to speak at the event and encourage Congress to pass the Equality Act.…
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has dismissed evolution, stating: "I believe in God." Greene, 47, took to former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon's podcast Real America's Voice to make her views known. The subject came up when the pair began to discuss conspiracy theories about how Covid-19 originated. It was at…
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President Biden is restoring the environmental protections around the largest national forest in the US after they were removed by the Trump administration. The Tongass National Forest in Alaska had previously been known as the "lungs of America", the Independent reports, and is one of the world's largest intact temperate…
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Lara Trump is facing a backlash from social media users after suggesting people on the southern border "arm up" and "take matters into their own hands". The daughter-in-law of former president Donald Trump made the comments on Saturday (June 12) during her appearance on Fox News. Speaking to host Judge…
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This weekend, President Joe Biden has met with six other influential world leaders for the 2021 G7 Summit. Government heads from France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada, USA, and the UK have congregated in Cornwall, England, to debate the economy, the ongoing pandemic, and the climate crisis. The weekend marks the…
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Joe Biden is taking steps to restore clean-water safeguards in the US after they were ended by ex-POTUS Donald Trump. Per Associated Press, the Biden administration conducted a review that found that Trump's actions significantly reduced the availability of clean water in states like New Mexico and Arizona. The agency…
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The teenager who recorded the fatal arrest of George Floyd has been recognized by the Pulitzer Prize board. On May 25, 2020, then-17-year-old Darnella Frazier pulled out her cell phone to record the arrest of 46-year-old Floyd in Minneapolis. Officers were responding to a call from a grocery store that…
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A North Carolina principal has given his students a graduation memory they will never forget, by belting out a stunning rendition of 'I Will Always Love You'. The tear-jerking moment occurred last week during the graduation commencement ceremony at T. Wingate Andrews High School in High Point. As reported by…
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The Biden administration has reportedly returned $2 billion that had been set aside for the construction of former President Donald Trump's border wall. As reported by CNN, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced on Friday that the funds would be returned to military projects after President…
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GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert has taken a cardboard cutout of Kamala Harris to the US/Mexico border in a brazen statement against the Vice President. The 34-year-old Republican Congresswoman took to Twitter on Tuesday, June 8, to share how she had taken the cutout of the Vice President to the southern…
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has shared his plans to build "barriers" along the state's southern border with Mexico. Abbot announced the project as part of a press conference at the "Border Security Summit" in Del Rio, and promised to delve into the logistics of the plan sometime in the near…
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An Arkansas police officer has been hit with a lawsuit after a pregnant woman alleged that he flipped her car because she didn't pull over fast enough. Nicole Harper had been driving at 84mph in a 70mph zone, according to Officer Rodney Dunn, who wanted her to pull over immediately.…
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Derek Chauvin’s lawyer has told the court that his client should be spared prison as cops have a lower life expectancy there. According to Minnesota district court documents, the former police officer's attorney, Eric Nelson, filed a motion on Wednesday, June 2, in a bid to reduce his client's sentence.…
