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Brunei will not be enforcing a death penalty for gay people following backlash over such a proposal, Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei confirmed in a speech. Talk of punishment by death for gay people in the oil-rich nation sparked outrage, with a number of high-profile individuals, including Elton John…
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A Boeing 737 aeroplane slid off a runway and into the St Johns River at the end of a runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, officials said. An aviation source told NBC News that the plane was arriving from Cuba at around 9.40pm when it hit rough weather and slid…
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A 28-year-old nearly lost his life after he suffered a major stroke from cracking his neck, ABC News reports. ABC affiliate KOCO reports that Josh Hader, 28, was admitted to Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City after tearing his vertebral artery, which leads to the brain. According to Dr. Nura Orra,…
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On Thursday afternoon, Facebook announced that it will be purging Alex Jones and several high-profile figures from its platforms. Jones is a radio host who runs the alt-right media platform InfoWars. The controversial website is known for propagating outrageous conspiracy theories, like falsely claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting…
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On 29 October, 2012, a drunken altercation between George Ortiz and Anthony Blas Yepez left Ortiz dead. Yepez was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his girlfriend and her adoptive mother’s boyfriend, the 75-year-old George Ortiz. While the testimony of Yepez’s girlfriend was sympathetic towards him, one fact could…
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A second child has been discovered with bite marks on their body at a nursery in Arizona. News of the first incident, which involved a child being bitten 25 times, broke in the UK yesterday. Taking to Facebook, the second child's distraught mother, Rocio Umsted, shared pictures of her daughter,…
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On Tuesday of final exam week, a man armed with a pistol opened fire on a classroom at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. He killed two people, 21-year-old Riley Howell and 19-year-old Ellis Parlier, while wounding four others. Authorities identified the injured students as Drew Pescaro, 19; Sean…
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A 10-year-old girl from Michigan tragically died from an underlying heart condition as she travelled down a 270-foot water slide. London Eisenbeis had been waiting two years to be deemed tall enough to go on the Super Loop Speed Slide - the biggest slide at Zehnder's Splash Village in Frankenmuth…
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A mother was horrified to discover that her 15-month-old daughter had been left with 25 bite marks on her back following an incident at her preschool. Alice Martin, from Arizona, says that the incident occurred just five days after she signed her toddler, Rosalyn, up for daycare at the Creative…
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In New Jersey's Liberty State Park, a section called Freedom Way displays flags from all 50 states. This includes Mississippi's state flag, adopted in 1894, which features the "Southern Cross," aka the Confederate battle emblem. During the Civil War, traitors in the South rebelled against America in a bloody battle…
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A woman has developed a new invention designed to prevent wrongful police shootings as a result of racial profiling. Jackie Carter, a former resident of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, who now lives in DC, has created a special magnetic pouch she has dubbed the "not reaching pouch", which holds your driver's license…
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It’s often said that the President of the United States is the most powerful man in the world. However, as God’s representative on Earth, the Pope would likely be the most powerful - and most important - according to followers of the Catholic faith. As vastly different positions, this question…
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Virginia will not be visiting the White House to celebrate this month's NCAA national championship win over Texas Tech, their coach Tony Bennett has confirmed. This follows the decisions of NBA champion Golden State Warriors, who elected to decline an invitation to visit the White House back in 2017, and…
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Italian explorer Christopher Columbus did not actually "discover" America, as Icelandic explorer Leif Ericsson landed in the country five centuries prior. Rather, Columbus jumpstarted the European colonization of the Americas, a noteworthy event, but perhaps not worth celebrating. According to historians, Columbus and his men brutally enslaved and abused Native…
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A North Carolina woman was arrested and spent around 12 hours in jail, after complaining about finding vomit on her daughter's plane seat, local news sources report. Rosetta Swinney, 53, was travelling with her teenage daughter on a Frontier Airlines from Las Vegas to California. When her flight was delayed…
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The perpetrator of one of the worst hate crimes in history has been executed today, with the racially-motivated killer of a black man receiving the death penalty. John William King, 44, died by lethal injection in Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, after becoming one of three men to be convicted…
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has announced his intention to run for President of the United States in the 2020 US elections. In a speech announcing his intention to run for president, which was posted to his official YouTube channel, Biden stated: "The core values of this nation… our standing…
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A woman has shot her husband dead after discovering that he had added an adult movie channel to their television subscription, local news reports. Prosecutors say that Patricia Ann Hill, 69, "flew into a rage" once she discovered that her husband, Frank, had re-added an adult movie channel to their…
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