Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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A Tennessee high school principal has apologized for marking Black History Month with an All Lives Matter theme. CNN reports that the East Ridge Middle School teacher in Chatanooga made the controversial announcement in a weekly newsletter issued on Sunday, January 31. The move was met with a significant backlash…
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Footage of Majorie Taylor Greene confronting Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has gone viral this week. In the video, which was filmed before the Republican rep was elected to Congress, she can be heard making a number of false and baseless claims. Per CNN, the confrontation starts after she spots…
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Joe Biden has vowed to "undo the moral shame" of the Trump administration by signing three new executive actions on immigration. Per the Independent, the new orders include measures to help reunite families who were separated at the US-Mexico border and a review of the Trump administration's policy on US…
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A former White House aide has claimed that Donald Trump would choose his daughter Ivanka over his wife Melania every time. Former White House advisor and Met Gala organizer Stephanie Winston Wolkoff made the revelations in an interview with SheKnows where she cited her tell-all book, Melania and Me. She,…
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Jeff Bezos will be stepping down as CEO of Amazon later this year, it was announced on Tuesday (February 2). Bezos, 57, will remain only in his role as Executive Chair of the Amazon Board, he explained in a letter to employees of the e-commerce giant. "Being the CEO of…
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Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner raked in at least $24 million last year after making a "substantial financial sacrifice" to work at the White House. Under the Trump administration, Ms. Trump, the former president's daughter, and her husband Jared Kushner both worked as senior advisers to Trump. Ms. Trump also…
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Joe Biden is set to give his first television interview as president before the Super Bowl on Sunday (February 7). The interview with CBS News will be broadcast ahead of the game and will feature the president being interviewed by the channel's Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell. As per the…
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A Black US Navy sailor was stunned to find a noose left on his bed by a fellow serviceman who claimed it was a "joke". Per The San Diego Union-Tribune, the incident happened on board the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain last week. A Navy official with knowledge of the…
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A woman who was branded a "Courtside Karen" after clashing with Lebron James during a Lakers game has now apologized. On Monday (February 1), the LA Lakers vs Atlanta Hawks game had to be stopped halfway through after a female spectator began hurling abuse at the NBA star. The woman,…
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A number of participants in the Capitol riots have turned on Donald Trump while awaiting trial on assault charges. On Wednesday, January 6, a mob of pro-Trump protestors interrupted the ceremonial counting of the Electoral College votes affirming Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 US Presidential Election. The violent riots…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene can be seen urging Trump supporters to "flood" the Capitol building and resort to violence if they "have to" in a video that has recently surfaced online. In a very passionate 90-minute video originally posted on Twitter in 2019, the Republican Congresswoman said Democratic leaders should be "cowering…
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A woman has shared her horror after being forced to pay an "African American service charge" when she booked an American Airlines flight out of Charlotte, North Carolina, with her partner. Kyetra Bryant explained in a Facebook post on January 28, that she first noticed the fee on her bank…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed on Monday that she is a survivor of sexual assault, and accused Trump defenders of using "the tactics of abusers." In an emotional Instagram Live on Monday night, the 31-year-old Democratic congresswoman opened up about how her experience of the Capitol siege last month was impacted by…
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An eight-year-old girl has been expelled from a Christian school for telling a friend that she had a crush on her. Chloe Shelton, a second-grader at Rejoice Christian School in Owasso, Oklahoma, was expelled last week, her mother Delanie Shelton told CNN, after making the revelation to another student. In…
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A USPS worker saved an elderly woman's life after noticing that she hadn't collected her mail for three days. Shonda Lemon has been delivering mail to 89-year-old Helen Iwanski, 89 on her Chicago route for four years. The mail carrier suspected something was wrong after realising the elderly woman's mailbox was full. Deciding…
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A Black teenager who was body-slammed onto the floor by a school resource officer is now suffering memory loss, according to her mother. In a video shared on Twitter by Attorney Ben Crump, Deputy Ethan Fournier can be seen throwing 16-year-old Taylor Bracey to the ground. He then handcuffs the high…
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A Texas police chief has been arrested after his fiancée exposed his alleged triple life on Facebook by stating that he has a wife, girlfriend, and is still dating. Jason Collier, the former head of Stinnett Police Department, was arrested by the Texas Rangers on the felony of tampering with…
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Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize alongside his deputy Avi Berkowitz. The pair received the nomination from one of the former US president's lawyers for the role they played in negotiating the "Abraham Accords" – four normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations.…
