Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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A nanny has been found guilty of drowning an infant in milk after the baby was said to have ruined her nap, reported the Washington Post. Chilling footage of 73-year-old Oluremi Adeleye, where she force-fed eight-month-old Enita Salubi nearly eight ounces of milk in a 30-second period, was crucial in finding…
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A video has gone viral on social media showing an alleged drunk driver launching into a racist tirade against the cop who arrested her. Julie Edwards, a 53-year-old woman from DeLand, Florida, was arrested by Deputy Brandon King on Thursday, February 7. King had been called in to investigate a disturbance in the…
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The first female pilot to lead the F-16 Viper team has been asked to leave the demonstration team just two weeks after her role was announced. Captain Zoe Kotnik was commander of the F-16 Viper Demo Team, which performs precision aerial manoeuvres to show the F-16's capabilities at air shows.…
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On Monday, President Donald Trump traveled to El Paso, Texas, which he falsely claimed used to have high rates of violent crime before erecting a barrier. The object of the speech was apparently to whip up support for a US-Mexico border wall, a project he failed to fund despite Republicans…
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Donald Trump's relationship with the media has been fraught throughout his two years as president - and that's putting it mildly. Even before he was handed the keys to the White House, he had coined the term "fake news" in retaliation to claims that he was sexist after a tape of…
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Mexican crime lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, leader of the infamous Sinaloa drug cartel, was found guilty of all 10 federal criminal counts against him, after his trial returned a verdict in the US today. The 61-year-old faces a mandatory sentence of life of prison. El Chapo, which means "Shorty" in…
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Blackface is a form of makeup used by a nonblack person to play a black role. Regardless of one's intent, the practice has an ugly history tethered to the brutal treatment of an oppressed group of people. Sporting blackface in public is bound to offend people, and could even kill…
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A man has been arrested after being caught allegedly caught pouring chemicals onto items at several grocery stores, according to the FBI. David Clare Lohr, a 48-year-old homeless man, was taken into custody last Wednesday in northern California by the FBI, after being caught on surveillance pouring bleach onto several…
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Many people fantasise about quitting their job to spend all their time on social media, but one college dropout has managed to actually follow through with this dream, and now earns over $6,000 a month via donations from his Twitter fanbase. 25-year-old Jovah Hill, a former political science major who…
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The teenage girl who was pushed off a 60ft bridge last summer in a horrifying viral video has spoken out on her conflicted feelings towards the friend who shoved her and her long road to recovery. Jordan Holgerson, 16, was left with six broken ribs, a punctured lung and air bubbles…
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A 16-year-old girl ended her own life just moments after sharing a video of herself on Snapchat this weekend. Hailey Nailor, a student at Danbury High School in Connecticut, jumped off the fifth-floor parking garage of the Danbury Fair Mall on Saturday afternoon following alleged bullying from her peers at school. "Before she…
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There is much talk at the minute about whether particular US states will fade from red to blue or blue to red. However, a number of states have also turned green. Cannabis is now legal in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. However, they are…
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Abigail Arias has been diagnosed with a Wilms tumour, a type of cancer that starts in the kidneys in children, and can often be terminal. The six-year-old's condition has worsened, to the point that she is not expected to live too much longer. But before things get any worse, she was…
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Kyle Yorlets, a 24-year-old man from Nashville, was shot and killed outside his home on Thursday. The culprits, police later found, were five children, aged 12 to 16. Yorlets, the lead singer of rock band Carverton, gave them his wallet, but was shot after he refused to give them his…
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Former boxing champion Rick 'Rocky' Lockridge has passed away at 60-years-old, his family have confirmed. He died in the home of his caregiver in Camden, New Jersey, due to complications that arose from pneumonia and a series of strokes. “Rocky had a way to make an ordinary person feel extraordinary,"…
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In 1993, Princeton graduate Jeff Bezos opened an online bookstore. Browsing books on a website and then receiving them in the mail, he decided, made for a quicker and easier experience. Initially working out of his garage, he warned early investors that there was a 70 per cent chance that…
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Conrad Roy grew up in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, and worked for his family’s company, Tucker-Roy Marine Towing and Salvage. Roy suffered from social anxiety and depression and had once tried to take his own life by way of overdose. Despite his demons, he was an honour roll student and talented athlete…
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Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola have been forced to issue an apology after napkins circulated on Delta flights were branded as "creepy" by airline customers. Ahead of Valentine's Day, which takes place next Thursday on February 14, travellers have been sharing several images of the offending napkins, which contain messages…
