Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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Last week, two deaths were reported at the Grand Canyon; at least one of which occurred when the victim was trying to take photographs. This particular incident occurred on the Thursday, and is believed to have involved a tourist from Hong Kong. According to a spokesman for Grand Canyon West, the…
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Ermias Joseph Asghedom, best known by his stage name as rapper Nipsey Hussle, has reportedly been shot and killed in Los Angeles. The incident took place outside the rapper's store, Marathon Clothing, in LA's Hyde Park neighbourhood on Sunday afternoon. It was just this year that the 33-year-old was nominated…
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Last week, a woman from Nebraska gave birth to her own granddaughter, after acting as a surrogate mother for her son and his husband in their time of need. Elliot Dougherty and Matthew Eledge both desperately wanted a child, but many of the usual avenues taken seemed "too corporate" for…
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A 21-year-old student who went missing earlier this week has been confirmed dead by her father. Samantha Josephson was not seen again after getting into the back of a stranger's car, after mistaking it for an Uber. Her designated Uber driver cancelled her ride when she failed to show at…
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Last August, a video of a woman pushing her teenage friend off a bridge went viral after it transpired that the girl had suffered severe injuries from the incident. Jordan Holgerson, 16, was left with six broken ribs, punctured lungs, and air bubbles in her chest after Taylor Smith (who…
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Back in January, Empire star Jussie Smollett made headlines after allegedly suffering a racially-motivated attack. The 36-year-old actor told police he had been attacked by two "unknown males" dressed in black at around 2 am in downtown Chicago. He reported that they had called him "racial and homophobic slurs," hit…
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A teenage employee at an American car rental company allegedly spiked his co-workers' drinks with LSD to "remove their negative energy". The Missouri 19-year-old, who works at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, is facing possible charges of second-degree assault and possession of a controlled substance after admitting to adding the hallucinogenic drug to…
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The anti-vaxxer movement has gained momentum over recent years, but, as some parents choose not to get their children vaccinated, it's the community as a whole that faces the consequences. With various outbreaks of measles in the US over the last few months, the debate has reached its peak, and…
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Heartbreaking news has emerged from Texas, as a 10-year-old boy completed suicide after being relentlessly bullied by his classmates, who even told the young boy to "kill yourself". Fifth-grader Kevin Reese Jr., who attended Robinson Elementary School, hanged himself in a closet of his Houston-area home on the 21st January…
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Jeremy Richman, the father of six-year-old Avielle Richman, one of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, has died from an apparent suicide. Newton police said that the neuroscientist's body was found in his Connecticut office building on Monday morning. They did not close further details, but…
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The 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School was the deadliest school shooting in history, claiming the lives of 17 students and staff and leaving another 17 injured. This prompted mass calls for America's gun laws to be reformed. At the forefront of which were the surviving students…
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Sydney Aiello, a 19-year-old graduate from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, took her own life last weekend. Her mother, Cara Aiello, told CBS Miami that she "struggled with survivor's guilt and was recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder," following the mass shooting on February 14, 2018. She…
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The director of the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland has slammed people who don't think that Michael Jackson was guilty of abusing children as 'truthers'. Dan Reed directed the controversial doc, which focuses on the stories of Wade Robson and James Safechuck as friends of the so-called King of Pop, details…
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Dex Frier, a 17-year-old student at Johnson High School in Gainsville, Georgia, was shocked and excited to discover his classmates nominated him for prom king. "It wasn’t even a thing that had crossed my mind," Frier, who identifies as male, told The Gainsville Times. "The moment I got home, I…
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Macaulay Culkin has reportedly joked about the allegations of abuse levelled at his friend Michael Jackson in a comedy gig. Over the last few weeks, Michael Jackson - who died in 2009 at the age of 50 - has been put back under the media spotlight in the aftermath of…
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A polar vortex brought chaos to the United States earlier this year, with parts of the country dropping to below-freezing temperatures. Temperatures dropped as low as -40C in some areas, with some states even becoming colder than Antarctica. In Chicago, the temperature reached -30C during the peak of the cold…
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A fertility doctor from Indiana has been accused of using his own sperm to artificially inseminate patients over a number of decades without their consent. He has now been confirmed to be the father of at least 48 children, but the specifics of the law means he technically didn't commit…
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The Westboro Baptist Church is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas and only has about 45 members, but has become world-famous due to its inflammatory hate speech. The members travel around America, protesting at public events, military funerals, celebrity funerals, and the funerals of people who died of AIDS. Their obnoxiously bright…
