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France is gifting a second, smaller Statue of Liberty to the United States to honor the friendship between the two nations. According to CNN, the 10-foot-high, 450 kg black statue, looks more or less identical to the larger Statue of Liberty located on Liberty Island outside New York City. In…
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A 22-year-old man has been charged after allegedly impersonating members of Donald Trump's family and conning the former POTUS' supporters out of thousands of dollars. According to the Justice Department, Joshua Hall made an appearance in federal court on Tuesday, June 8, after being charged with wire fraud and aggravated…
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Yet another official has resigned after a veteran's mic cut out while credited Black Americans in a Memorial Day speech. Per NBC News, the chair of the Memorial Day parade committee and president of the Hudson American Legion Auxiliary Cindy Suchan confirmed that she has stepped down from her post…
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A retired nun has pled guilty to stealing over $800,000 from school funds to gamble in Las Vegas. Mary Kreuper, 79, of Los Angeles pled guilty to money laundering and fraud while working as Principal of St. James Catholic School, where she worked for 28 years until 2018. During the…
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Democratic representative Val Demings has announced that she is running for senate. Per NBC News, she is set to challenge Marco Rubio for his seat in 2022 and made the announcement in a three-minute video where she reflected on working for the Orlando Police Department and working her way up…
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Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert has suggested that changing the moon's orbit around the Earth, or the Earth's orbit around the sun might help fight climate change. The remarks were made on Tuesday, June 8, during a hearing with the House Natural Resources Committee. As he spoke with Jennifer Eberlien, a…
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Former US President Donald Trump has praised Nigeria's government for banning Twitter in the country following his ban from the platform. Per BBC News, Trump issued a statement on Tuesday, June 8, addressing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's temporary outlawing of the social media site after Twitter removed one of Buhari's…
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An investigation has been launched after the IRS seemingly found that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk paid no income tax. ProPublica reported on exclusively obtained IRS documents that revealed that many of the US's super-wealthy were legally not paying income tax including Bezos, Musk, Bill Gates, George Soros, Mark Zuckerberg,…
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Former POTUS Barack Obama has warned that the Republican party is seriously undermining American democracy. In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, the 59-year-old Democrat compared the US to Hungary, Poland, and Russia as he claimed that the US could be on its way to an "undemocratic America" after a…
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The Pentagon has announced that the United States military has withdrawn over half its forces from Afghanistan. Per CNBC News, US Central Command estimated in an official statement that it had "completed greater than 50 percent of the entire retrograde process." A spokesperson for the Pentagon claimed the US Military…
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A teacher that was suspended for misgendering a transgender student has been reinstated at the same school. Per WTOP News, Byron 'Tanner' Cross, who teaches gym class at Leesburg Elementary School in Loudoun County in Virginia, claimed his religious beliefs prevented him from referring to a trans pupil by their…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has slammed Vice President Kamala Harris for telling illegal immigrants not to come to the US. The rebuke came from AOC in a series of tweets on Monday, June 7, and she retweeted a video of Harris telling illegal immigrants not to come to the US amid record…
