Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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A star high school football player has unexpectedly died, the day after he committed to play in college, after undergoing routine knee surgery. Nick Dixon, a senior at Spartanburg High School in South Carolina, had an operation to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a torn meniscus in his knee…
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Last week, a 13-year-old girl was discovered after going missing for 88 days, following the death of her parents. Her captor, the same man responsible for the murder of her mother and father, was caught soon afterwards - and both their statements on the crimes committed are absolutely chilling. Jake…
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Police in Utah have issued a warning to drivers after a woman reportedly crashed her car while driving blindfolded as part of the Bird Box challenge. According to the BBC, a teenager drove into oncoming traffic with a hat placed over her eyes in the city of Layton. Netflix had…
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In August of 2004, 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown shot Johnny Allen in the back of the head. She killed him in his home, with her handgun, fleeing with his car and wallet. He had been a US Army veteran with a stable job whereas Brown was a delinquent with a history…
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Last August, Kate Grant became the first model with Down's Syndrome to win an international beauty pageant. After she was crowned champion of the Teen Ultimate Beauty Of The World pageant, she told Mirror UK, "I was in shock. My family were all in the audience, crying and cheering. My dream…
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What's the first thing you would do if you found out that you had bought a winning lottery ticket? Before you get a chance to even confirm your purchase to claim your winnings, you've got a lot of excitement you'd want to share with someone. Like a lot of people…
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Donald Trump has apparently made "the wall" his personal Alamo. At virtually every stop during his presidential campaign, he promised his red-hat base that he would build a 2,000 mile border wall between the United States and Mexico, and that Mexico would pay for it. But as they say in…
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Over the last six months or so, Facebook and social media has been overloaded with videos of systemic racial injustice laid bare. In neighbourhoods, grocery stores, restaurants and more, people of colour have been uploading footage of the people who've called the police on them for seemingly no reason. Just…
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At Donald Trump rallies, the crowd breaks out into hysterical chants to "build the wall" between the United States and Mexico. However, despite Republicans controlling Congress for two years, the "big, beautiful" wall has yet to built. Aw, man! That's the last time I trust a promise from a twice-divorcée…
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Jeremy Kappell, the chief meteorologist at an NBC station in Rochester, was fired on Monday for the alleged use of a racial slur during a live broadcast. The WHEC-TV veteran was describing a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, when uttered the phrase, “Martin Luther C–n King Jr.,”…
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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is only one week into her new job, and she's already one of the Democratic party's biggest stars. Liberals love her because she's a young, outspoken 'democratic socialist' who knows how to use social media. Conservatives don't like her, but can't stop talking about her. Eager to…
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On Monday, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted full clemency to Cyntoia Brown, an alleged sex trafficking victim serving life in prison for murdering her john. Brown committed the crime at the age of sixteen and described it as an act of self-defense. During the rise of the #MeToo movement, her case…
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China has successfully landed a robotic spacecraft on the 'dark side' - or 'far side' - of the moon, the first-ever attempt and landing of its kind. State media claimed that at 22.22 (Beijing time) on Thursday, January 3, the un-crewed Chang'e-4 probe touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, an impact…
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A petition has been launched by Barack Obama fans to rename the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets in New York after the former president. Coincidentally, this is the same street that the current president's famous building, Trump Tower, sits on. "We request the stretch of Fifth…
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Jacqueline Ades, from Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested on Tuesday May 8, on suspicion of stalking and harassing someone she had met online. At the time, she was accused of sending 65,000 text messages to him after their initial date, justifying her position by claiming she "felt like I met my…
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Police in Phoenix, Arizona are currently investigating a sexual assault, after a woman in a vegetative state gave birth last weekend. An anonymous source explained that the healthcare facility's staff had no idea that the woman was pregnant until she went into labour on December 29. An unnamed woman has…
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Yesterday the 116th Congress was sworn in, featuring a historic number of women and people of color. Among them, the youngest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representing New York's 14th district. The self-proclaimed 'democratic socialist' unseated a longtime Democratic incumbent with just a fraction of his cash. During her campaign, the Bronx native…
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This week, an Ohio medical facility has revealed that it fired one of its doctors in September last year after it transpired that she had threatened to "purposely" give Jewish people the wrong medication. Lara Kollab, a 27-year-old supervised medical resident at the Cleveland Clinic, lost her job when old antisemitic tweets of hers were…
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
