Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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A Florida student is now in coronavirus quarantine just days after he allegedly shook hands with Vice President Mike Pence. The incident took place when Pence visited the Sarasota Military Academy on Friday to meet students, shake their hands and pose for photographs. Per the Herald Tribune, Pence was visiting…
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President Trump has donated his fourth-quarter salary to help the coronavirus crisis. The news was revealed by the White House Press Secretary, Stephanie Grisham. She posted a picture of the quarterly $100,000 cheque on Twitter from Trump to the Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar. This Wuhan medic broke…
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News has just broken that Mike Bloomberg has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, and is endorsing Joe Biden. The announcement comes despite Bloomberg spending over half a million dollars on his presidential campaign, CNBC reports. The former New York mayor performed disastrously in the Democratic primary debates on…
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Per CBS News, at least 19 people are believed to have been killed in Tennessee as the result of at least one tornado and severe storms that tore through Nashville and the region late on Monday and early on Tuesday. The death toll had been reported as 9 earlier on…
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Bodycam footage has been released of former ER star Vanessa Marquez being shot dead after she pulled a fake gun on police officers. The incident took place at the 49-year-old's home in Los Angeles, where police had been called to perform a welfare check over concerns about her mental health.…
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A cold blast and blizzards have transformed houses into something more reminiscent of igloos near Lake Erie in New York. The remarkable transformation was brought to the world's attention on social media, where people have been sharing pictures of the icy homes. In many cases, the ice covering the homes…
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As residents of Staten Island marched in the New York City borough's annual St. Patrick's parade on Saturday, Miss Staten Island was confined to the sidelines, according to CBS New York. Madison L'Insalata claims that just hours after she came out as bisexual, organizers banned her from participating. This thwarted…
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A carriage horse has been euthanized after a video showed it collapsing in New York City's Central Park over the weekend. The incident has caused a furore on social media, with calls to ban horse-drawn carriages - which are a popular tourist attraction - in the city. The footage, which…
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A man has been charged with assault after he was reportedly caught on surveillance footage stabbing a female shopper in the backside with a syringe filled with semen. Thomas Byron Stemen was reportedly in possession of multiple syringes filled with semen after the woman was stabbed while her back was…
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A TikTok video, in which a young woman appears to go for an abortion at Planned Parenthood, has caused quite the furore on social media. At the time of writing, it has garnered over four million views on the platform. The clip, which was titled Abortion time, take 2, shows…
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A hospital worker from Florida has been arrested after being accused of "sucking" on an elderly patient's toes, according to Fox 4 News. 23-year-old Frantz Beldorin was reprimanded by police after a female patient at Gulf Coast Hospital in Fort Myers, Florida, woke up at around 11 PM on Tuesday,…
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A Texas elementary school teacher who was suspended after showing her students a photo of her fiancée has reached a $100,000 settlement following a discrimination lawsuit, Yahoo Lifestyle reports. Back in August 2017, Stacy Bailey, then an art teacher at Charlotte Anderson Elementary in Arlington, introduced herself to her fourth-grade…
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A teacher resigned in front of her school board, and simultaneously sent a powerful message to her students in a now-viral video, the Kansas City Star reports. The incident took place on February 10 when Amanda Coffman quit her job at Indian Woods Middle School. In the process, she slammed the…
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A six-year-old girl was filmed begging for help as she was arrested by Orlando police and had her wrists zip-tied. The incident took place in September when Kaia Rolle, six, was arrested for battery after she was reported for throwing a tantrum and kicking a teacher. After being successfully apprehended,…
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San Francisco's mayor has declared a state of emergency in the city after health officials warned of the deadly coronavirus spreading across the United States, The Independent reports. "Although there are still zero confirmed cases in San Francisco residents, the global picture is changing rapidly, and we need to step-up…
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For the second time this month, a faculty member at the University of Oklahoma has been accused of using a racial slur in class, CNN has reported. The most recent incident occurred when a history professor read from a "historical document that used the 'N-word' repeatedly". As a result, the university's…
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Vanessa Bryant, the widow of the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, is suing the helicopter firm she believes is responsible for the deaths of the former LA Lakers legend and their daughter, Gianna. The NBA legend, 13-year-old Gianna, and a further seven other people (including the helicopter pilot) died in…
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NASA has revealed that Katherine Johnson, the woman who paved the way for the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, died this morning at the age of 101, per ABC News. Her remarkable legacy, along with that of other female African American NASA employees, was immortalized in the movie…
