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Detective Brian Simonsen was responding to a robbery at a T-Mobile phone store in Queens when he was fatally shot by a fellow officer in a tragic turn of events. During the Tuesday night shooting, Sgt. Matthew Gorman was also wounded, and the suspect of the robbery on Atlantic Avenue…
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A video has gone viral on social media showing an alleged drunk driver launching into a racist tirade against the cop who arrested her. Julie Edwards, a 53-year-old woman from DeLand, Florida, was arrested by Deputy Brandon King on Thursday, February 7. King had been called in to investigate a disturbance in the…
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The first female pilot to lead the F-16 Viper team has been asked to leave the demonstration team just two weeks after her role was announced. Captain Zoe Kotnik was commander of the F-16 Viper Demo Team, which performs precision aerial manoeuvres to show the F-16's capabilities at air shows.…
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Katy Perry has issued a formal apology after being lambasted on the internet over shoes in her new fashion line. Earlier this week, the singer pulled a particular style of shoe from her fashion range, after critics accused the design of promoting blackface. Perry's 'Rue Face Slip-On Loafers' and 'Ora Face Block…
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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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Kashgar, in China, is closer to Baghdad than Beijing. It is located in Xinjiang - an autonomous region of the country where almost half of the inhabitants are Uighurs. Muslims who speak a Turkic language, Uighurs have recently been subjugated by an oppressive government and incoming migrants from eastern China.…
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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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Mexican crime lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, leader of the infamous Sinaloa drug cartel, was found guilty of all 10 federal criminal counts against him, after his trial returned a verdict in the US today. The 61-year-old faces a mandatory sentence of life of prison. El Chapo, which means "Shorty" in…
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Blackface is a form of makeup used by a nonblack person to play a black role. Regardless of one's intent, the practice has an ugly history tethered to the brutal treatment of an oppressed group of people. Sporting blackface in public is bound to offend people, and could even kill…
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Many people fantasise about quitting their job to spend all their time on social media, but one college dropout has managed to actually follow through with this dream, and now earns over $6,000 a month via donations from his Twitter fanbase. 25-year-old Jovah Hill, a former political science major who…
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Two years ago, WWE star Paige had her life turned upside down when a tape of her performing sexual acts was released online in an act of revenge porn. The 26-year-old, whose life is the subject of an upcoming film starring Game of Thrones actress, Lena Headey, found herself at…
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The teenage girl who was pushed off a 60ft bridge last summer in a horrifying viral video has spoken out on her conflicted feelings towards the friend who shoved her and her long road to recovery. Jordan Holgerson, 16, was left with six broken ribs, a punctured lung and air bubbles…
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A 16-year-old girl ended her own life just moments after sharing a video of herself on Snapchat this weekend. Hailey Nailor, a student at Danbury High School in Connecticut, jumped off the fifth-floor parking garage of the Danbury Fair Mall on Saturday afternoon following alleged bullying from her peers at school. "Before she…
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Singer Katy Perry has allegedly been forced to pull a particular style of shoe from her latest fashion range after critics accused the design of promoting 'blackface'. Perry's "Rue Face Slip-On Loafers" and "Ora Face Block Heel Sandal" (which cost the hefty price of $129 per pair at Dillard's and Walmart)…
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There is much talk at the minute about whether particular US states will fade from red to blue or blue to red. However, a number of states have also turned green. Cannabis is now legal in Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. However, they are…
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A woman who allegedly participated in a long campaign of transphobic harassment has been arrested by police and jailed for seven hours. However, the woman in question, Kate Scottow, (who hails from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England) claims that she was arrested after misgendering someone once, and claims that the police have not…
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Abigail Arias has been diagnosed with a Wilms tumour, a type of cancer that starts in the kidneys in children, and can often be terminal. The six-year-old's condition has worsened, to the point that she is not expected to live too much longer. But before things get any worse, she was…
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Kyle Yorlets, a 24-year-old man from Nashville, was shot and killed outside his home on Thursday. The culprits, police later found, were five children, aged 12 to 16. Yorlets, the lead singer of rock band Carverton, gave them his wallet, but was shot after he refused to give them his…
