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The head of diversity at Google has been removed from his position - but not fired - after the discovery of his anti-semitic blog post. Kamau Bobb wrote a blog post in 2007 titled "If I Were a Jew", and it featured a number of offensive comments which resurfaced this…
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Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney has claimed that his client has unfairly been subjected to "grueling conditions" in jail. The lawyer even alleged that there has been a lack of drinking water for Maxwell and a sewage stench in her cell. The British socialite, 59, is in jail in Brooklyn, New York,…
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A blind man has won worldwide praise by successfully climbing Mount Everest. Zhang Hong, 46, from Chongqing, in southwest China, climbed to the summit of the world's tallest mountain in just three days, having begun his monumental journey from Everest's base camp on May 24 and reaching the summit on…
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A school has won widespread praise after sending children to mandatory meditation instead of detention. Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, established its "Mindful Moment" program in 2016, which involves children being sent to a mindful moment room when they misbehave, CNN reports. They are then given the…
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A woman accused of threatening Nancy Pelosi has been arrested after assaulting a police officer in Washington D.C. Per HuffPost, 52-year-old Audrey Ann Southard-Rumsey, a schoolteacher who hails from Spring Hill, Florida, was taken into custody and charged with felonies relating to her involvement in the Capitol riots on January…
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Donald Trump Jr. is flogging videos of himself to fans on Cameo for at least $500 a pop. Per Independent, the son of former POTUS Donald Trump has been charging large fees for videos of himself on Cameo, a service that allows users to commission video messages from celebrities. Donald…
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A Texas high school valedictorian scrapped her original speech to speak out against the state's abortion ban. Paxton Smith had her speech about the influence of TV and media on her world views preapproved, but she swapped it out last minute and replaced it with a now-viral speech about the…
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President Joe Biden is offering free beer to the general public on the condition that 70% of Americans get vaccinated by Independence Day. Per CNN, the POTUS made the pledge in a White House press conference held on Wednesday, June 2, in which he announced his so-called "National Month of…
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Hotel guests were forced to leave a pool after they objected to two black women kissing. The ordeal was filmed by a bystander who posted a clip on Instagram showing the guests leaving the pool area in Sacramento as other patrons chanted "shame". They wrote: "A pack of white straight…
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Leaked documents show that Buckingham Palace banned people of color from undertaking office roles for the royal family until at least the late 1960s. According to files obtained by The Guardian from the UK's National Archives, Queen Elizabeth II's chief financial manager informed civil servants in 1968 it was not…
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Derek Chauvin's lawyer has asked a judge to limit his prison sentence for the murder of George Floyd to time-served. Per Daily Mail, this plea for leniency from Chauvin's defense team to Judge Peter Cahill follows a push by the prosecution for a sentence of 30 years in prison. However,…
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An Italian artist has sold an invisible sculpture for $18,000. According to HypeBeast, the artwork in question is the brainchild of Salvatore Garau, and has been dubbed "Io Sono" - which translates in English as "I am". The artwork consists of a 5×5-foot square on the ground and is intended…
