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A family dog, feared lost forever by his loving family after the wildfire that ripped its way through the state of California last year, has been reunited with his family after 101 days of uncertainty. As the Ballejos family fled their home in Paradise, California following the Camp Fire wildfires…
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The United States government is not going to punish or prosecute the remote and uncontacted tribe responsible for the death of an American missionary who attempted to convert them to Christianity. John Allen Chau, a 26-year-old man who originally hailed from Alabama, had travelled to the tiny island in the…
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Burberry has been forced to apologise after being slammed for featuring a hoodie with a noose around the neck at London Fashion Week. The upmarket brand came under fire on Monday after one of its own models called them out for glamourising suicide through fashion. Liz Kennedy, who was part…
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A couple of customers were left furious after they received an offensive message from a staff member on a receipt at a restaurant where they'd just eaten. Stopping in at a Little Caesars for a takeout pizza in Henrico County, Virginia, Rosman Harris and Marcus Robertson (who are cousins) were shocked to…
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An Australian woman's post about the alleged body shaming she endured at the hands of a spray tan company has gone viral on social media this week, with the subject sparking some strong opinions from commenters. The trouble began when an anonymous woman took to Instagram to ask a business about the…
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Bernie Sanders has officially entered the 2020 race for the White House. After months of speculation, the Vermont Senator announced today that he is running for president once again. This is his second consecutive bid for the Democratic nomination, after losing out to Hillary Clinton back in 2016. In an email…
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A dying mother with days left to live was taken to the beach in her hospital bed and gown so that she could watch the sun set for the last time. Carmen Leon de la Barra passed away after a battle with bowel cancer last week, but before she died, a…
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A heavily pregnant server working at a diner was taken aback by the kindness of a police officer, who left a generous message - and an even more generous tip - on her receipt. 23-year-old Courtney English is around seven months pregnant - expecting her first child on April 1.…
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Last week, on Valentine's Day, a group of inmates became unlikely heroes after freeing a baby from a locked car. The incident happened at the Pasco County courthouse, where a group of prisoners were on work release repairing parking meters. While they had been working, a father managed to shut his…
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An 11-year-old boy, who apparently refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance as an anti-racism protest, has been arrested by police. The young student, a sixth grader attending Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, Florida has not yet been named. He was apparently arrested after getting into an altercation with…
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A college student was left outraged after she was told to stop wearing a sports bra in the gym because she would "distract" men. Kate, a junior at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, claims that she was "dehumanised" and "humiliated" by a male member of staff in early January as she went…
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In October 2017, reports in The New York Times and The New York Reporter exposed Harvey Weinstein as a serial rapist and abuser of women in Hollywood. Over the following months, more than 80 women came forward to accuse the film producer of inappropriate conduct of varying degrees, eventually leading…
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A man who was kidnapped as a baby and returned two years later discovered he was not his parents' son in an extraordinary turn of events 48 years after his abduction. Paul Fronczak grew up as Dora and Chester Fronczak's child - but everything changed when he was 10 years old…
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Last month, it was reported that Jussie Smollett, star of the hit TV show, Empire, had been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack at the hands of Donald Trump supporters. Now, it is apparently suspected that his story was a lie. According to Chicago police, it is believed…
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A youth wrestling tournament in Kimberly, Wisconsin earlier this month quickly descended into chaos, but the violence had little to do with the young wrestlers who had taken to the mat. Instead, it was their parents that started the brawl, with several people grappling with each other as insults flew.…
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A southern Californian man has been arrested on relation to the murder of his parents and housekeeper in a gated community in Newport Beach. 27-Year-old Camden Nicholson was confirmed to be in the custody of Newport Beach police, after the bodies Richard Nicholson and Kim Nicholson (who were 64 and 61…
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US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for his border wall, in a move that sent shockwaves around the world. After many attempts on the president's side to secure funding from the wall - at one point shutting down the government for a…
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Five people have been killed and several more injured as a man opened fire in a firm based in Aurora, Illinois, police have confirmed. The shooter was identified as Gary Martin, a 45-year-old who had worked at the Henry Pratt manufacturing company in Aurora, 40 miles from Chicago, for 15 years.…
