Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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Facebook Inc has announced that Donald Trump will be banned from the social media platform for a further two years. The former POTUS was suspended indefinitely from both Facebook and Instagram back in January following posts the 74-year-old made regarding the deadly Capitol riots. However, per BBC News, the social…
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Joe Biden has suspended the Trump administration's oil drilling in a national wildlife refuge in Alaska. CNN reports that former President Trump had auctioned off the right to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas for $14.4 million during his last days in office. This move…
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Mike Pence has labeled systematic racism in the US as a "left-wing myth". The former vice president, 61, made the claim at a New Hampshire Republican event on Thursday, June 3, as he said: "America is not a racist country" to "raucous applause," The New York Times reported. He went on…
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West Virginia has become the subject of a federal lawsuit after the state's new anti-trans sports bill was signed into law. The governor of West Virginia, Republican Jim Justice, signed the controversial legislation into law in May in spite of the backlash similar laws have received in other states. Per…
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Mike Pence claims that he and Donald Trump still have conflicting views on the January 6 Capitol riots. According to The Sun, the former Vice President touched on the deadly protests while speaking to a group of fellow conservatives at the Hillsborough County Republican Committee in New Hampshire on Thursday,…
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A school has won widespread praise after sending children to mandatory meditation instead of detention. Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, established its "Mindful Moment" program in 2016, which involves children being sent to a mindful moment room when they misbehave, CNN reports. They are then given the…
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A woman accused of threatening Nancy Pelosi has been arrested after assaulting a police officer in Washington D.C. Per HuffPost, 52-year-old Audrey Ann Southard-Rumsey, a schoolteacher who hails from Spring Hill, Florida, was taken into custody and charged with felonies relating to her involvement in the Capitol riots on January…
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Donald Trump Jr. is flogging videos of himself to fans on Cameo for at least $500 a pop. Per Independent, the son of former POTUS Donald Trump has been charging large fees for videos of himself on Cameo, a service that allows users to commission video messages from celebrities. Donald…
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A Texas high school valedictorian scrapped her original speech to speak out against the state's abortion ban. Paxton Smith had her speech about the influence of TV and media on her world views preapproved, but she swapped it out last minute and replaced it with a now-viral speech about the…
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President Joe Biden is offering free beer to the general public on the condition that 70% of Americans get vaccinated by Independence Day. Per CNN, the POTUS made the pledge in a White House press conference held on Wednesday, June 2, in which he announced his so-called "National Month of…
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Hotel guests were forced to leave a pool after they objected to two black women kissing. The ordeal was filmed by a bystander who posted a clip on Instagram showing the guests leaving the pool area in Sacramento as other patrons chanted "shame". They wrote: "A pack of white straight…
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Derek Chauvin's lawyer has asked a judge to limit his prison sentence for the murder of George Floyd to time-served. Per Daily Mail, this plea for leniency from Chauvin's defense team to Judge Peter Cahill follows a push by the prosecution for a sentence of 30 years in prison. However,…
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Florida has banned transgender girls from taking part in female sports at public schools and colleges, BBC News reports. Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, signed the bill - known as The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act - into law on Tuesday, June 1, making the Sunshine State the…
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Donald Trump's personal blog, which he used to post statements after his social media ban, has been permanently shut down. The link to his "From the Desk of Donald J Trump" blog has been removed from the former president's official website less than two months after it was launched. In fact,…
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The state of West Virginia is giving away free guns, trucks, and cash prizes in a bid to encourage people to get vaccinated. Per CNN, Governor Jim Justice announced the new vaccination incentive scheme in an official statement made on Tuesday, May 1. Gov. Justice stated that the COVID lottery…
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Former POTUS Donald Trump has reportedly told people he will be "reinstated" as president by August. The 74-year-old Republican lost the 2020 US presidential election in November - but despite this, the ousted leader supposedly intends to take power once more. The story arose from a CNN report about Trump's…
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Police have launched an investigation after a restaurant displayed a sign claiming that they can "refuse service to white people". According to Daily Mail, the sign appeared outside of a Popeyes branch in Lake St. Louis, Missouri. Watch this news report on the sign in the video below: The sign,…
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A Black woman was given a $385 fine for "talking too loud" on her phone and people are taking to social media to rally around her. Diamond Robinson of Eastpointe, Michigan, told Fox 2 Detroit that one of her neighbors confronted her on Thursday as she walked up and down…
