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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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After a long night of drinking, a man was rushed to hospital in mysterious circumstances, but healthcare officials were astonished to find that he had a live catfish lodged in his throat. Writing in the Acta Oto-Laryngologica Case Reports, a team of doctors looked to delve further into this astonishing story…
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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 man found a huge chunk bitten out of the sweet potato in his kitchen, and was horrified to discover that the offending nibbler was in fact a giant rat. Jacob Cummings, who is a 29-year-old computer engineer who lives in Hull in the north of England, had taken out…
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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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At the start of January, it was announced that Channel 4 and HBO are co-producing a documentary titled Leaving Neverland. The two-part show will detail the experiences of James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who were aged 10 and seven when they were befriended by the so-called King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Now…
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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…
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Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued for $3.1 million by a Utah doctor who accuses her of leaving him with a brain injury and four broken ribs in a skiing incident. Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson claims the "distracted" Iron Man actress was going too fast when she lost control and slammed…
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When we experience cold weather, and somebody says boy, we sure could use some global warming right now, their motivation isn't clear. Are they making a lame joke? Do they not understand simple scientific concepts? Or are they deliberately saying something ignorant to get a rise out of people? (Woooo!…
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Jussie Smollett, who plays the singer Jamal Lyons on the hit television drama Empire, has allegedly been the victim of a brutal attack, apparently motivated by racism and homophobia. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Smollett, who is openly gay like his Empire character, ambushed outside of a Chicago…
