Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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Bernie Sanders has officially entered the 2020 race for the White House. After months of speculation, the Vermont Senator announced today that he is running for president once again. This is his second consecutive bid for the Democratic nomination, after losing out to Hillary Clinton back in 2016. In an email…
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A heavily pregnant server working at a diner was taken aback by the kindness of a police officer, who left a generous message - and an even more generous tip - on her receipt. 23-year-old Courtney English is around seven months pregnant - expecting her first child on April 1.…
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Last week, on Valentine's Day, a group of inmates became unlikely heroes after freeing a baby from a locked car. The incident happened at the Pasco County courthouse, where a group of prisoners were on work release repairing parking meters. While they had been working, a father managed to shut his…
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As many as 28 students were taken to hospital on Valentine's Day after consuming a sizeable amount of holiday candy, police have confirmed. Cliff Jones, Academic Officer for Fulton County Schools Chief in Atlanta, Georgia, explained that 28 students at Sandtown Middle School started to feel "nauseated and disoriented" after eating snacks…
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A vegan couple have been arrested after almost starving their newborn child to death by reportedly only feeding him a potato-based formula. Julia French, 20, and 31-year-old Robert Buskey were taken into custody in Titusville, Florida. Titusville police accused the couple of knowing their five-month-old son was malnourished, but doing…
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An 11-year-old boy, who apparently refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance as an anti-racism protest, has been arrested by police. The young student, a sixth grader attending Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Florida has not yet been named. He was apparently arrested after getting into an altercation with…
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A college student was left outraged after she was told to stop wearing a sports bra in the gym because she would "distract" men. Kate, a junior at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, claims that she was "dehumanised" and "humiliated" by a male member of staff in early January as she went…
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A man who was kidnapped as a baby and returned two years later discovered he was not his parents' son in an extraordinary turn of events 48 years after his abduction. Paul Fronczak grew up as Dora and Chester Fronczak's child - but everything changed when he was 10 years old…
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Last month, it was reported that Jussie Smollett, star of the hit TV show, Empire, had been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack at the hands of Donald Trump supporters. Now, it is apparently suspected that his story was a lie. According to Chicago police, it is believed…
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A youth wrestling tournament in Kimberly, Wisconsin earlier this month quickly descended into chaos, but the violence had little to do with the young wrestlers who had taken to the mat. Instead, it was their parents that started the brawl, with several people grappling with each other as insults flew.…
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A southern Californian man has been arrested on relation to the murder of his parents and housekeeper in a gated community in Newport Beach. 27-Year-old Camden Nicholson was confirmed to be in the custody of Newport Beach police, after the bodies Richard Nicholson and Kim Nicholson (who were 64 and 61…
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US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for his border wall, in a move that sent shockwaves around the world. After many attempts on the president's side to secure funding from the wall - at one point shutting down the government for a…
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Five people have been killed and several more injured as a man opened fire in a firm based in Aurora, Illinois, police have confirmed. The shooter was identified as Gary Martin, a 45-year-old who had worked at the Henry Pratt manufacturing company in Aurora, 40 miles from Chicago, for 15 years.…
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US President Donald Trump has had the cake from his wedding to Melania in 2005 sell at auction for nearly $2,000, but he may be concerned about what could happen to the dessert. Artist and photographer Andres Serrano is probably best known for his "Piss Christ" photograph, where a model of…
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For weeks now, rumours and allegations about R Kelly have been circulating the media. The Ignition artist was placed under criminal investigation last month following statements made by a number of women in the Lifetime docuseries, 'Surviving R. Kelly'. Now, as part of that investigation, celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti claims that…
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One year on from the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the wound still feels fresh both to the friends and families of the victims and to the US as a whole. A total of fourteen students and three teachers were killed. In many cases, those who lost…
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Police in New Jersey are on the lookout for a young man who released a giant rodent into a McDonald's earlier last week, causing a frenzy inside the restaurant. NBC New York reports that a young man - accompanied by a young boy - walked into a McDonald's in Newark…
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A few weeks back, the news was awash with reports of a group of schoolboys who had allegedly harassed a Native American elder. The pupils, who were from Covington Catholic School in Kentucky, had been in Washington DC in order to participate in the March for Life and protest women's rights…
