Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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President Joe Biden has today called on Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines following the mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, that resulting in 10 people losing their lives. Per The Hill, the POTUS has also called loopholes in the background check systems to be closed. Speaking on Tuesday,…
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Jack Dorsey, the CEO and co-founder of the social media platform Twitter, has sold his first ever tweet for over $2.9 million. The tweet, which was posted at 08:50PM on March 21, 2006, simply reads: "just setting up my twttr". As reported by BBC News, the tweet was purchased by…
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A 21-year-old man has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder following the mass shooting at the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday. As reported by NBC News, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa was charged after being arrested at the scene following a stand-off with police. Boulder police…
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Ken Jeong has donated $50,000 to the families of the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting that left eight people dead. According to NBC News, in the wake of the horrific shooting spree across three spas in Atlanta on Wednesday (March 17), five $10,000 donations were made by the 51-year-old…
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Yesterday (March 22), the United States was rocked by yet another mass shooting in which 10 people - including one police officer - were killed. BBC News reports that at approximately 02:30PM local time, an unidentified man entered the King Soopers market in Boulder, Colorado, and opened fire. Following a…
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A gunman has killed 10 people - including one police officer - after opening fire at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday. The incident occurred at approximately 02:30PM local time, after the man entered the King Soopers market and opened fire. About 20 minutes later, the Boulder police…
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A children's book based on chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci is due to be released in bookstores in June later this year. According to CNN, the non-fiction book, based on the life of the immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is due to…
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Bernie Sanders has told Tesla CEO Elon Musk to focus on a progressive tax system and to concentrate on Earth-based issues as opposed to space exploration. According to The New York Post, the Vermont Senator and the SpaceX founder came to blows over social media last week, after Sanders targeted…
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The Biden Administration is reportedly preparing to spend $86 million on hotel rooms to help migrant families stranded on the Mexican border. Per The Independent, the Department of Homeland Security officials told Axios that a six-month contract will be put in place to help approximately 1,200 families be put up…
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A spokesperson for Donald Trump claims that the former President is due to launch his own social media platform "within months." According to Fox News, Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller told Howard Kurtz on the network's show MediaBuzz that the ex-POTUS is due to return to social media following his…
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Over $875,000 has been raised for an Asian grandmother who hit headlines last week after she was able to fight off an unprovoked attack in the San Francisco Bay Area. As reported by BBC News, 76-year-old grandmother Xiao Zhen Zie was waiting to cross a street in downtown San Francisco…
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A GoFundMe for the sons of an Atlanta shooting victim has raised over $2 million. Hyun Jung Grant, a single mother to two boys, was one of eight people killed during the attack on Tuesday (March 16). She was also one of six Asian women to be killed in the…
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President Biden has canceled $1 billion worth of student debt for those who attended for-profit colleges. Forbes reports that 72,000 student loan borrowers were freed of their debt if they attended a college that engaged in deceptive or illegal practices, as well as those who had attended an institution that…
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Joe Biden's administration is being sued by 21 states after the President signed an executive order revoking the $9 billion Keystone XL pipeline permit. The president revoked the 1,179-mile pipeline in an executive order on his first day in office, preventing the movement of 830,000 barrels of crude oil from…
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The White House has confirmed that President Joe Biden is in good health after he was filmed stumbling on a flight of stairs while boarding an Air Force One jet yesterday. According to The Guardian, the incident occurred on Friday, March 19, as the POTUS was filmed boarding the presidential…
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Carol Maraj - the widowed mother of chart-topping rapper Nicki Minaj - has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the driver charged with killing her husband last month. As reported by PageSix, on February 12, 64-year-old Robert Maraj was struck down while walking across the street in Mineola, New York.…
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A teenager who hacked the Twitter accounts of some of the most prominent figures in the world has been sentenced to three years in prison. According to The Guardian, 18-year-old hacker Graham Ivan Clark, who hails from Florida, infiltrated a number of Twitter accounts of major celebrities and organizations on…
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People have raised more than $600,000 for a 75-year-old grandmother who sent her attacker to hospital after fighting back against his unprovoked assault on her. As reported by the Metro, the unnamed attacker, 39, allegedly walked up to Xiao Zhen Zie and slapped her. The incident occurred on Wednesday morning…
