Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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The debate over border control between the United States and Mexico has been running hot for years, but the concept of building a wall between the two countries has definitely come more to the forefront since Donald Trump began his campaign for the 2016 presidential election. The ongoing conflict between…
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On its 35th day, the longest government shutdown in United States history has finally come to an end. (For a little while, anyway!). According to officials on Capitol Hill, President Trump and Congressional leaders have reached a agreement to re-open shuttered government agencies for three weeks. This agreement does not…
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After an investigation took place in Memphis, Tennessee, a sexual relationship between a teacher and a student was revealed - but that wasn't all there was to the story. In addition to the secretive affair between the 16-year-old former high school student and the 24-year-old algebra teacher, records have shown…
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Last week, controversy plagued the University of Oklahoma after one student was kicked out of her sorority for an offensive video. The woman filmed her friend as she applied blackface and appeared to use racial slurs, and the footage soon spread online after it was posted to Snapchat. The sorority…
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A once-prominent Mormon 'conversion' therapist has come out as gay and wants to start dating men. David Matheson, one of the best-known practitioners of the condemned pseudoscientific practice of trying to change sexual orientation, came out in a social media post on Monday in which he stated that "being in…
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A three-year-old boy has been found alive after going missing for two days. Casey Hathaway was found caught in a thorn bush in freezing temperatures on Thursday night following a two-day search of a wooded area. Hathaway, who lives in Craven County, North Carolina, was found soaking wet and calling…
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In October 2015, a white woman in Evanston, Illinois called the police to report that a man was stealing a car. Then she followed him in her own vehicle, so she could tell dispatchers his location. However, that man was actually 25-year-old Northwestern University PhD student Lawrence Crosby, and he…
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On February 3, the Super Bowl will be broadcast, featuring incredible big-budget ads and trailers for the year's most anticipated movies. And in between all those awesome commercials, there will be some stupid football game. However, there's one ad you won't see: Acreage Holding's emotional spot touting the benefits of…
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An Indiana school superintendent has been arrested and charged with fraud after using her own personal health insurance to help a pupil who had fallen sick. After her pupil missed school, Casey Smitherman visited the boy's house and discovered that he was in fact suffering from strep throat. For those…
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Native American activist Nathan Phillips reportedly has a criminal record that includes charges of assault, escape from prison and various alcohol-related crimes. The 64-year-old, whose confrontation with Covington Catholic High School students went viral last week, was charged "with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined [on] May 3" as a…
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In October last year, 13-year-old Jayme Closs went missing from her house in Barron, Wisconsin. Her parents had been shot dead, and she had apparently been abducted late at night. For 88 days, nobody knew where she was, and a $50,000 reward was offered for anyone who could save her.…
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At a school in upstate New York, one student reported a suspicious comment they heard at lunchtime. A day later, the authorities had arrested three men and a teenager, charging them with conspiracy to attack a Muslim community 200 miles away. Vincent Vetromile, 19; Brian Colaneri, 20; Andrew Crysel, 18;…
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Last weekend, a viral video of a confrontation between a MAGA hat-wearing teenager and a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. created a firestorm on social media. In the clip, the Native American elder beats his drum and sings, while the teen stands just inches from…
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Last March, 27-year-old sixth grade teacher Brittany Zamora was arrested after the parents of a 13-year-old boy found nude images and explicit material on his phone. After an investigation, police discovered that Zamora engaged in a sexual relationship with the boy, her student at Las Brisas Academy in Goodyear, Arizona.…
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Over the past few days, a group of boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky have become a divisive topic of discussion across social media. The teenage students caught the world's attention on Sunday when they were filmed interacting with Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder and Vietnam war…
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A ten-year-old boy from Kentucky has allegedly taken his own life, after enduring relentless bullying over this colostomy bag. Seven Bridges’ mother Tami Charles was at the grocery store, and Donnie Bridges, his father, was at a church choir practice when the fifth-grader hanged himself at the family’s home in Louisville on…
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Charmed actress and noted liberal activist Alyssa Milano has provoked controversy among certain social media users by comparing Trump supporters to members of the infamous white supremacist group the Klu Klux Klan. The trouble began on January 20, after a video emerged of what appeared to be a group of…
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Following an incident involving a Native American elder in Washington DC this weekend, a group of teenage boys from Covington Catholic High School have become the subject of mass social media discussion. Thousands of people, including President Donald Trump, have tweeted about the matter, with some condemning and others excusing the…
