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A group of veterans in Washington state has awarded a Black Lives Matter activist a college grant after she took action to prevent a US flag burning during a protest in Spokane, Fox News reports. This particular protest, which took place over the summer, saw the 20-year-old put out the…
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A 20-year-old man has died as a result of injuries he sustained while riding a bull at a rodeo. Per a report by the New York Post, Rowdy Lee Swanson, who was studying animal sciences at Oklahoma State University, was bucked from his bull during the Palo Pinto County Livestock…
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Just when you thought 2020 couldn't get more bizarre... Workers in Mexico City have discovered a 'giant rat' among 22 tonnes of garbage that had been pulled from the city's drainage system following heavy storms. But before you start scanning for gamma rays, the huge rodent is actually a long-lost…
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A Vermont grocery worker who apprehended a would-be purse thief during his shift has been fired, it's reported. 20-year-old Amir Shedyak had worked at a Hannaford supermarket in his hometown of Essex and was even employee of the month, according to the New York Post. As he was starting a…
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A California man has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks. He claims that that he sustained severe burns to his body after a lid on his cup popped off, spilling scalding hot tea onto his stomach, hands and genitals. Per The Sacramento Bee, the incident took place on October 5 2018,…
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon and champion of women's rights, has died of cancer aged 87, the court said. Earlier this year, Ginsburg revealed that she was undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer that began in 1999. She died of metastatic pancreatic cancer on Friday at…
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The Trump Administration has announced that it will ban US business transactions with Chinese-owned social apps TikTok and WeChat on Sunday. [caption id="attachment_12608978" align="aligncenter" width="639"] Credit: PA Images[/caption] As reported by CNBC, on Friday (September 18), Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement: "At the President’s direction, we have…
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In a period of 10 years, the world has collectively failed to meet every single target put in place to save our planet, according to a report from the UN. These aims formed part of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and were determined at the 2010 meeting of leaders from 196…
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A heroic teenager from Connecticut has been commended this week for saving a young mother and her three children, by bravely pulling them from the wreckage of a burning car. In a Facebook post, the Waterbury Police Department thanked 18-year-old Justin Gavin, who was on his way to a local…
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It's fair to say that plenty of millennials who grew up reading the Harry Potter books were left jaded and disappointed by the time they reached adulthood - when no letter from Hogwarts ever arrived for them via owl post. But now, gamers everywhere will finally get the chance to…
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A volunteer firefighter with the Idanha-Detroit Fire District was reduced to tears as he walked through his burned down neighborhood in Keizer, Oregon. The clip in question shows 50-year-old Donald Tesdal, who was affected by the Lion’s Head fire in Oregon on Monday, September 14. You can watch the clip…
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A former model has accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault during an encounter at the 1997 US Open. The allegations have been made by former model Amy Dorris, who claims the POTUS assaulted her outside the bathroom in his VIP box at the tennis tournament in New York on…
