Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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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…
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New York police are on the hunt for a serial burglar who was caught breaking into a baby's nursery, as the infant slept just a few feet away. The suspect was caught on a Nest security camera breaking into the Riverdale apartment through a window after scaling the fire escape…
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In October 2018, a 13-year-old girl, Jayme Closs, went missing from her home in Barron, Wisconsin. In her home, police found the bodies of her two parents, who had both been shot dead, but she was nowhere to be found. Even with a $50,000 reward offered for anyone who could…
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A secretary working for a public school in Connecticut has resigned from her role, after a video of her went viral. The news of her leaving her position was confirmed by the school district, after a video circulated of her berating a man with racial slurs during an altercation in…
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A Florida woman was arrested and taken into custody, after reportedly shooting her boyfriend over the volume of his snoring. Initially, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office had thought that Lorie Morin, 47, had shot her boyfriend - named by police as Brett Allgood - accidentally, but after speaking to the…
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A school sports teacher has been arrested and charged with felonies after reports surfaced that she had an "inappropriate" relationship with one of her students. Former Gwinnett County high school teacher Sarah Katherine Brooks, who is 25 years old, was booked into Gwinnett County Jail on Friday, according to a…
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Paris Jackson has vehemently denied that she was hospitalised following a suicide attempt, and has moved to slam the tabloid circulating the false report. Earlier this weekend, TMZ reported that Jackson - who was just 10 years old when her father Michael Jackson died at the age of 50 -…
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Over the past few days, details have emerged of a college admissions scam involving at least 50 parents in the USA. Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are amongst those who have been indicted on charges of fraud, as news broke that they had bribed their way in to top…
