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A petition has been launched by Barack Obama fans to rename the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets in New York after the former president. Coincidentally, this is the same street that the current president's famous building, Trump Tower, sits on. "We request the stretch of Fifth…
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A man who was initially forced to pay £4million ($5.09million) to his ex-wife as part of their divorce has now successfully sued her after he discovered that the three kids he had raised were not biologically his. Richard Mason, a 55-year-old businessman and the co-founder of moneysupermarket.com, was never given…
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Jacqueline Ades, from Phoenix, Arizona, was arrested on Tuesday May 8, on suspicion of stalking and harassing someone she had met online. At the time, she was accused of sending 65,000 text messages to him after their initial date, justifying her position by claiming she "felt like I met my…
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Police in Phoenix, Arizona are currently investigating a sexual assault, after a woman in a vegetative state gave birth last weekend. An anonymous source explained that the healthcare facility's staff had no idea that the woman was pregnant until she went into labour on December 29. An unnamed woman has…
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In shocking news, it turns out women have body hair. The horror, the horror! (The jury's still out on whether or not women fart; I'm choosing to believe they don't.) Within the past year, we've seen several stories about women embracing their natural hair, from a proud bearded lady to…
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Yesterday the 116th Congress was sworn in, featuring a historic number of women and people of color. Among them, the youngest congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representing New York's 14th district. The self-proclaimed 'democratic socialist' unseated a longtime Democratic incumbent with just a fraction of his cash. During her campaign, the Bronx native…
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Roger Hallam wants to get young people sent to prison. Not thieves, drug dealers or delinquents, but the best and brightest - those who understand the scale of the global climate change problem. Roger is a co-founder of an entity commonly known as XR. Standing for Extinction Rebellion, they themselves…
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This week, an Ohio medical facility has revealed that it fired one of its doctors in September last year after it transpired that she had threatened to "purposely" give Jewish people the wrong medication. Lara Kollab, a 27-year-old supervised medical resident at the Cleveland Clinic, lost her job when old antisemitic tweets of hers were…
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A little under a year ago, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian welcomed their third child, Chicago, who was delivered by a surrogate. "Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl," Kim wrote on January 15th, 2018. "We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate…
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People living in New York City can now change the gender on their birth certificates to 'X'. A new bill, passed and signed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in October, adds the Big Apple to the growing list of US states and cities to offer residents a third gender…
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Today the 116th Congress opened for session, featuring a historically diverse class of women and people of color. This includes the nation's first two Muslim Congresswomen: Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D- Minnesota), and Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan). Both were sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's Koran. At the ceremony, Rep.…
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A teenage boy has been held in a detention centre on murder charges following a fatal crash he caused in Texas on New Year's Day. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested on Tuesday after driving his father's SUV into another car, subsequently killing a 45-year-old…
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Following his breakup with ex-fiancée Ariana Grande, Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson posted an alarming message on Instagram. "I really don't want to be on this earth anymore," he wrote. "I'm doing my best to stay here for you but I actually don't know how much longer I can…
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As we cross the halfway point of Donald Trump's presidency, you've probably picked up on the First Law of Trumpodynamics: For every Trump action, there is an Trump tweet criticizing that action. For example, after winning the 2016 election, Trump tweeted, "Just had a very open and successful presidential election.…
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On December 1, 2002, twin sisters Zainab and Jannat Rahman were born to parents Nipa and Luther in London, UK. Unfortunately, their birth was not without complications. In a rare turn of events, the two girls were born conjoined, attached at the chest and liver. Doctors were aware of the risk of…
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It's all too easy to get wrapped up in the shocking numbers that come with any large scale war, and forget the stories of incredible individual sacrifice and bravery that should be told and retold, passed down the generations. After all, it is ordinary people who become the victims of…
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A DoubleTree in Portland, Oregon, has fired two of its employees after they racially targeted a black man who had been staying on the premises. Jermaine Massey, who is 34 years old, posted a video of the initial incident to Instagram on December 22nd, 2018: the night it happened. "Tonight I…
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A little over a year ago, Louis CK was accused of sexual harassment by a number of women in the wake of the #MeToo scandal. Unlike a lot of the other celebrities accused at the time, CK actually seemed to show some humility, and admitted his wrongdoings in a public…
