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Legendary Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant has reportedly died in a helicopter crash today at the age of 41. Per the Independent and others, the NBA legend was travelling with at least three other people in a private helicopter when it crashed in Calabasas on Sunday morning. The…
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Delta Air Lines has been fined $50,000 by the US Transportation Department, and has been ordered to provide cultural sensitivity training to its employees following two incidents involving alleged discrimination against Muslim passengers, according to Fox News. The DOT ruled that the airline provider was in violation of anti-bias laws…
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A bank called the police on a black man who was trying to cash a check from a discrimination lawsuit. The incident took place in a Michigan Bank where a Detroit man tried to deposit a cheque for an undisclosed sum that he was awarded after a racial discrimination lawsuit,…
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A mother who died just days after giving birth has saved the lives of 12 people by donating her organs. The selfless decision was made to honor the wishes of Kathleen Thorson, from Medford, Oregon, who died unexpectedly after giving birth to her fourth child, a son she named Theodore,…
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It's a fact that, when parents are spectating at a sports game, they can sometimes get too into it. We've all seen a mom or dad screaming at the top of their lungs as if their kid was playing at the World Series or the Super-Bowl, instead of the Little…
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Country singer, David Olney, died while performing at the 30A Songwriters Festival in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, on Saturday, January 18th. The first sign that something was wrong was when the 71-year-old suddenly apologized to the audience. He then closed his eyes. He was experiencing a heart attack, and despite…
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People are equally terrible and wonderful, and a great example of the latter emerged on Twitter after a Target employee was criticized by an angry customer. It all began when David Leavitt, a journalist, took to Twitter to reveal that a Target manager wasn't "honoring the price of their items…
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A school has told a teenager that if he does not cut his dreadlocks, he won't be allowed to walk at graduation. Eighteen-year-old Deandre Arnold has been growing his dreadlocks for 10 years, and until recently, his school in the Barbers Hill independent school district of Texas, has never had…
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A 10-year-old girl is being praised by local law enforcement for her quick thinking in a scenario where she felt threatened by a stranger who was potentially planning on kidnapping her. According to a recent news report by Good Morning America, on Tuesday, January 21, Madison Raines and a friend…
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A man killed a coyote with his bare hands after it attacked his child. As per Sky News, the incident took place in Kensington, New Hampshire when the coyote attacked the child, bit a woman, and charged at a car. The animal's body is now being tested for rabies, officials…
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A dentist has been found guilty of pulling out a patient's tooth while riding a hoverboard. The incident took place in Anchorage, Alaska in 2016, and it resulted in 34-year-old Seth Lookhart being convicted on 34 counts. This included reckless endangerment, illegally practicing dentistry and medical assistance fraud. Check out…
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President Donald Trump appeared to hint on Thursday to his evangelical Christian supporters that he intends to update the federal guidance on the issue of prayer in public schools - an action that came on National Religious Freedom Day. Trump stated: "You have things happening today that 10 or 15…
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A former 'Teacher of the Year' knelt during the national anthem at a college football game attended by President Trump. Kelly Holstine was given the prestigious award in 2018. And on Monday, at the college football championship in New Orleans, she wanted to use the anthem as an opportunity to…
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According to documents obtained by TMZ, a deaf man is suing Pornhub over its lack of closed captioning. Plaintiff, Yaroslav Suris, is claiming that the absence of subtitles across the adult streaming service is, in fact, a breach of federal law. He alleges that the Canadian website has violated his…
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Nancy Pelosi has been slammed online for handing out "souvenir" pens to sign President Donald Trump's impeachment articles. She brought the pens to the historic impeachment on Wednesday and they were all adorned with her name. After signing the resolution, two articles of impeachment against President Trump were transmitted to…
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Per CNBC, The Government Accountability Office is claiming that the Trump administration violated the law by withholding military aid to Ukraine, in a new non-partisan report. The document, entitled: 'Office of Management and Budget- Withholding of Ukraine Security Assistance', was released to the public and shared by the GAO on…
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Politician and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has welcomed the rapper Cardi B's potential career in politics, after the star stated her intention to run for congress in the future. On January 12, the rapper tweeted to her millions of followers: "I do feel like if I go back to…
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A four-year-old girl, who didn't get vaccinated this season, has been left blind after contracting the flu. Jade DeLucia's mother, Amanda Phillips, rushed the child to hospital on Christmas Eve after her fever became dangerously high. Speaking to NBC news, she said "I looked down at her and her eyes…
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