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Donald Trump is an American businessman, media personality, and politician who served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017-2021. Known for his real estate empire, reality TV show 'The Apprentice', and controversial political career, Trump remains one of the most polarizing figures in American politics.
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The owner of a Mexican restaurant has been forced to post a strong response after a customer wrote a racist message on a receipt instead of leaving a tip. Vanessa Martinez, owner of Charrito’s Bar & Grill in Huntsville, Alabama, took to Facebook to reply strongly to the aggressor, who…
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On Monday, President Donald Trump traveled to El Paso, Texas, which he falsely claimed used to have high rates of violent crime before erecting a barrier. The object of the speech was apparently to whip up support for a US-Mexico border wall, a project he failed to fund despite Republicans…
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Donald Trump's relationship with the media has been fraught throughout his two years as president - and that's putting it mildly. Even before he was handed the keys to the White House, he had coined the term "fake news" in retaliation to claims that he was sexist after a tape of…
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In 1993, Princeton graduate Jeff Bezos opened an online bookstore. Browsing books on a website and then receiving them in the mail, he decided, made for a quicker and easier experience. Initially working out of his garage, he warned early investors that there was a 70 per cent chance that…
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When Eminem first came out, he mocked the biggest stars in 90's and 00's pop culture. Now it's 2019, and there's a new generation mocking him. What goes around, comes around! Sure, Em's regarded as one of the best technical rappers of all time, and his first three Interscope albums…
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On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump delivered the State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress. It was his time to shine, a chance to brag about his accomplishments, wax poetic about America and call for an end to "ridiculous partisan investigations." (Fun fact: During the 1974…
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In 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick became the NFL player to take a knee during the national anthem. It was a peaceful protest against racial injustice and police brutality, spurred by a string of alarming incidents where cops killed unarmed black men. Initially, Kaepernick began sitting on the bench during…
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It was impossible to miss female Democrats present at President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday as they all turned out in white. The striking sartorial choice was multilayered, having numerous important reasons behind it. It was designed to honour those who came out in the midterm…
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Donald Trump is known for doing unusual things. Upon becoming the president of the United States, he scrapped policies for LGBT rights and family planning, called German Chancellor Angela Merkel an “excellent salesman” and spent more than 100 consecutive days playing golf. Having proclaimed that he would build a Mexico-funded…
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For more than 150 years, the White House has welcomed sports teams onto its grounds following their victories in major competitive tournaments - the Super Bowl being one of the most famous. Almost immediately after winning this year's game, however, several players with the New England Patriots made it clear…
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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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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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Over the past couple of years, politics has infiltrated almost every corner of pop culture. It's discussed on sitcoms, brought up by movie stars on the red carpet, and raged about on Twitter by pretty much anybody with a decent amount of notoriety. Most recently, two celebrity worlds collided when…
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In this day and age, it's really hard to be the bigger man, and there's nowhere this applies more than the Wild Wild West social network that is Twitter. Over the past 18 months or so, we've seen the battlegrounds move away from real life and corrosive talk show hosts,…
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The debate over border control between the United States and Mexico has been running hot for years, but the concept of building a wall between the two countries has definitely come more to the forefront since Donald Trump began his campaign for the 2016 presidential election. The ongoing conflict between…
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On its 35th day, the longest government shutdown in United States history has finally come to an end. (For a little while, anyway!). According to officials on Capitol Hill, President Trump and Congressional leaders have reached a agreement to re-open shuttered government agencies for three weeks. This agreement does not…
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Native American activist Nathan Phillips reportedly has a criminal record that includes charges of assault, escape from prison and various alcohol-related crimes. The 64-year-old, whose confrontation with Covington Catholic High School students went viral last week, was charged "with escaping from the Nebraska Penal Complex where he was confined [on] May 3" as a…
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While bringing up Donald Trump in any American circle is enough to send people into a frenzy, across the Atlantic, the British people are just as polarised over the concept of Brexit, where the UK decided to leave the European Union in a highly-debated referendum. It's a contentious topic, one…
