Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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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…
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People living in New York City can now change the gender on their birth certificates to 'X'. A new bill, passed and signed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in October, adds the Big Apple to the growing list of US states and cities to offer residents a third gender…
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Today the 116th Congress opened for session, featuring a historically diverse class of women and people of color. This includes the nation's first two Muslim Congresswomen: Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D- Minnesota), and Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan). Both were sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's Koran. At the ceremony, Rep.…
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A teenage boy has been held in a detention centre on murder charges following a fatal crash he caused in Texas on New Year's Day. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested on Tuesday after driving his father's SUV into another car, subsequently killing a 45-year-old…
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As we cross the halfway point of Donald Trump's presidency, you've probably picked up on the First Law of Trumpodynamics: For every Trump action, there is an Trump tweet criticizing that action. For example, after winning the 2016 election, Trump tweeted, "Just had a very open and successful presidential election.…
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A DoubleTree in Portland, Oregon, has fired two of its employees after they racially targeted a black man who had been staying on the premises. Jermaine Massey, who is 34 years old, posted a video of the initial incident to Instagram on December 22nd, 2018: the night it happened. "Tonight I…
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This weekend, an intern was attacked and killed by a lion at The Conservators Center, a zoo in North Carolina. The victim, 22-year-old Alexandra Black, had only been working at the zoo for two weeks, and was fatally mauled while cleaning out the big cat's cage. The Caswell County Sheriff's Department…
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Childbirth is the process through which one or more babies leave a woman's uterus through vaginal passage or Caesarean - you know what? Nope. I don't want to think about this. It's super gross. And sounds super painful. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the miracle of life. Pass. I'd rather talk…
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Most college students find a group presentation pretty embarrassing. I can remember a few times when I had to stand up during a seminar and talk to my class about some subject or other, and wanting the group to swallow me up. However, just think about how much more embarrassing…
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Donald Trump, current US president and 72-year-old toddler, only wanted one thing for Christmas: Funding for a big, beautiful wall between the United States and Mexico. Just imagine, 2,000 miles of "artistically designed steel slats" - so beautiful! It would make such a great national landmark. The Statue of Liberty…
