Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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President-elect Joe Biden has declared that the US is "at war with the virus, not each other" in a rousing Thanksgiving speech where he called for an end to the country's "grim season of division". As per BBC News, there were over 1.2 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the…
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Barack Obama claims that Republicans have wrongly portrayed white males as "victims" in a bit to secure votes. Per The Guardian, Obama made the comments in a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club on Wednesday (November 25), while promoting his newly-published memoir A Promised Land. Obama previously gave the following…
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Donald Trump has pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security advisor who had previously pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about contacts with Russia's ambassador. As per BBC News, Flynn was convicted of lying during an investigation into alleged voter Russian interference in the 2016 election. The pardon was…
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Barack Obama has given the rapper Drake his official permission to play himself in a biopic movie. The 34-year-old Grammy-award-winning musician first voiced an interest in portraying the now 59-year-old former President of the United States in a 2010 interview with Paper. Per an article by Digital Spy, Drake stated…
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President-elect Joe Biden has become the first presidential candidate in US history to win more than 80 million votes. As per CNN, this record number of popular votes is likely to increase in the coming days as ballots from the 2020 presidential election continue to be counted. As of this…
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A couple have reportedly lost their jobs after their abusive rant at a Lyft driver went viral on social media. The incident was recorded by driver David Kangogo, who identified one of the passengers only as "Joe" from Issaquah in Washington. After the footage was posted to social media, it…
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A teenage hunter has died after tragically falling from a ladder stand and being impaled on his own rifle. As reported by the Daily Mail, 17-year-old Justin Lee Smith of Supply, North Carolina, passed away on Saturday afternoon following a tragic accident in the northwest part of the county near…
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On Tuesday (November 23), president-elect Joe Biden and his team were given permission by the General Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy to begin the transition into power. This came after a 16-day standoff with the incumbent president Donald Trump and his team after the Republicans refused to concede the election…
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A grandmother is spending her fifth Thanksgiving with the man she accidentally invited to dinner four years ago - and this year, they've decided to celebrate early in honor of her late husband. Per ABC News, the unusual tradition between the two strangers first started back in 2016, when Wanda…
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Donald Trump has been heckled by news reporters after ending a press conference with no questions. Per a report from News.com.au, the incumbent POTUS made his first public appearance in a week to announce his new pharmaceutical pricing plans to combat Covid-19. However, it wasn't long before the President's attention…
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Twitter has announced that it will automatically transfer the official '@POTUS' presidential handle to the current president-elect Joe Biden on January 20th, 2021 - Inauguration Day. As reported by CBS News, even if the current incumbent president, Donald Trump, refuses to concede the election, the '@POTUS' will be transferred to…
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Doctor Anthony Fauci - the United States' top infectious disease expert - has provided a glimmer of hope for children all over the world. Speaking on USA Today this week, Fauci hinted at a somewhat normal Christmas for 2020 when he told families that Father Christmas has an "innate immunity"…
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen charged with killing two Black Lives Matter protesters earlier this year, has been released from jail after posting a $2 million bail. Per a report by The Washington Post, on August 25, 17-year-old Rittenhouse, who hails from the town of Antioch in Illinois, shot three people…
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A petition has gone viral on social media this week calling for the Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia to be added to the National Register of Historic Places. For those who missed out on the significance of this location, the seemingly-innocuous business was catapulted into the public's consciousness after…
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Yesterday, Orlando Hall was executed for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Lisa Rene. Per Fox News, the 49-year-old was put to death by lethal injection at 11:47PM on Thursday, November 19, at the Federal Corrections Complex in Terre Haute in the state of Indiana. According to federal court documents, Hall…
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Former Vice President Joe Biden turns 78 today, which will now make him the oldest president in the history of the United States when he assumes office in two months' time. According to a report by The Independent, Biden will be breaking the presidential age record previously set by Republican…
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Viewers were left in awe last night as Rudy Giuliani's 'hair dye' was filmed dripping down his face as he made unfounded claims about widespread voter fraud at a wild news conference. The incident took place at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington DC, the Guardian reports. The Trump campaign's…
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A former classmate and friend of Ivanka Trump claims that her father, President Donald Trump, made several comments about her body when she was growing up. Writing in a tell-all exposé in Vanity Fair, Lysandra Ohrstrom, who met Ivanka when they were both enrolled at the Upper East Side school…
