Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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Rappers often feel that they have to create a persona. In fact, Lil Peep's brother explained that the late rapper “mentioned how being a hip hop artist is like being a pro-wrestling character”. However, 21 Savage appears to have taken this idea to unusual extremes. News broke yesterday of the…
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Vegans have taken offence at the Hyundai commercial that aired during last night's Super Bowl, with many plant-based eaters taking to Twitter to express their displeasure. With several prominent plant eaters as well as PETA getting involved, the source of their ire was a commercial which took aim at the…
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A terrifying video has emerged on social media this week, showing a prisoner serving a life sentence taking a hostage in the jail library. Timothy Monk, who is doing a 97-year-long stint at the Lewis prison near Buckeye, Arizona, held a prison librarian hostage for several hours inside the law library before wardens…
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Cedric Marks, who has previously fought in the UFC, has been arrested under suspicion of killing two people, one of whom was his ex-girlfriend. He was re-captured on Sunday by police, after he initially evaded authorities, escaping from a prisoner transport van in Texas. Marks was arrested in Michigan last…
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A woman from Chicago has performed an incredible act of kindness this week, by paying for the hotel rooms of over 60 homeless people. 34-year-old real-estate developer Candace Payne performed the amazing public service, due to her business partner of many years telling her about his experiences living homeless in…
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Four people have been arrested after their chilling plan to kidnap and murder a child was uncovered. David Bailey, 37, Matthew Toole, 32, Talia Furman, 32, and Jayme LaPoint, 19, were all arrested by Michigan State Police and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to…
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An 18-year-old University of Iowa student has passed away after being found unconscious outside a campus building in the freezing cold. Gerald Belz was found by campus police lying on the ground behind Halsey Hall in extreme temperatures just before 3 am on Wednesday. The unresponsive teenager, who was studying pre-med, was taken…
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As North America braces against a lethal chill, some Iowa natives have found a funnier side to the freezing cold. In the past weeks, a polar vortex has been wreaking havoc across the Midwest, delaying over 2,500 flights and halting the U.S. Postal Service. Pictures coming out of the snow-covered cities…
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A 27-year-old nutritionist has tragically been found dead after hanging herself in her Manhattan apartment. Tara Condell, who was a San Francisco native, was found by police after worried co-workers reported her missing when she didn't show up for work. Condell, who worked as a nutritionist at the Midtown office of…
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Soon enough it'll be time for the Super Bowl one more, with the 53rd edition of the monumental sports event airing on Sunday February 3. The two-time defending champions, the New England Patriots, will be facing off against the Los Angeles Rams to determine the champion of the NFL's 2018 season,…
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A death row inmate has been executed in Texas 30 years after he was sentenced to death for killing a policeman. Robert Mitchell Jennings was pronounced dead at 6.33pm local time after being taken from his cell at 6.04pm, becoming the first person to be put to death in the US…
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This week the American Midwest was gripped with a record freeze as a result of the polar vortex. Every winter, a wide expanse of swirling cold air moves south from the North Pole, creating cold snaps in the United States. However, this year the temperatures are unusually low, plunging far…
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Last Tuesday, Jussie Smollett was the victim of a brutal attack in downtown Chicago, at about 2 a.m. local time. Two unidentified men wearing masks shouted racist and homophobic slurs at the actor, who plays an openly gay character on Fox's hit drama series Empire. The suspects physically assaulted Smollett,…
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A doctor out in California is battling to keep his license as a registered doctor after prescribing cookies laced with cannabis to a toddler. Dr William Eidelman, a natural medicine physician whose practice is on Cahuenga Boulevard in Los Angeles, prescribed a four-year-old boy cookies with low doses of marijuana in them,…
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A Florida man has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for attacking a man who was dressed like a Minion from the Despicable Me film franchise. Ryan Nihart from Citrus County pleaded 'no contest' on Monday to misdemeanour battery and criminal mischief for the 2018 attack on 41-year-old Jamie Roehm.…
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A woman from Washington pleaded guilty to charges of attempted first-degree domestic violence murder this week after allegedly attempting to kill her boyfriend with a samurai sword. Emily Javier, who is 31, told investigators that she launched the attack on her boyfriend, Alex Lovell, in March last year after finding that he had…
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On March 17, former US soldier James Harris Jackson travelled to New York, where he he stayed at a Manhattan hotel, planning an attack. Three days later, the 28-year-old from Baltimore searched the streets for black men, wearing a long coat to hide a 26-inch Roman-style sword, which he drew…
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More than 1,000 strangers showed up to the funeral of Air Force veteran this week, after learning that his service was to be sparsely attended. Joseph Walker, who was born in 1946 and served in the Vietnam war, was laid to rest at the All Faiths Funeral Service in Austin, Texas. However, before…
