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On Monday, a NASA spacecraft filled with asteroid rubble, called Osiris-REx, started its journey back to Earth. It should be here in *checks watch* roughly two-and-a-half years. Osiris-REx first got to asteroid Bennu in 2018. For two years it flew near/around it. Then it touched down and collected debris. It’s estimated to be holding somewhere between half a […]
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people in the United States between the ages of 12 and 15 years old, CNN reports. An advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet Wednesday to review the data provided by Pfizer, […]
Billie Eilish, The Killers, Tame Impala, and Lizzo have been tapped to headline the 2021 Firefly Festival later this year. Among the other noteworthy artists who are slated to hit the stage at The Woodlands in Dover, Delaware include Megan Thee Stallion, Wiz Khalifa, Machine Gun Kelly, and the star of the latest Complex cover story, Roddy […]
Charges against a Black driver who a Virginia State Police trooper removed from her car back in March have been dropped, as it was determined the trooper had no legal merit to detain her. Trooper Robert Hindenlang pulled over government employee Juanisha Brooks on March 6 shortly after 2 a.m., as reported by The Washington Post. […]
On Monday, a group of 44 attorneys general, made up of both Democrats and Republicans, put their signatures on a letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg encouraging him to ax Facebook’s plan to launch a version of Instagram for kids younger than 13. The letter justifies its ask based on mental health and privacy concerns for its young users, […]
An Oklahoma school district has come under fire after two Black students were removed from their classrooms for wearing Black Lives Matter shirts, the Texoma Fox affiliate reports. On Friday, eight-year-old third-grader Ben Stapleton and his five-year-old brother spent the day in their school’s principal’s office because they were wearing BLM shirts to class. Their mother, Jordan Herbert, explained […]
On May 10, J. Cole dropped a new documentary called Applying Pressure: The Off-Season. The 12-minute video arrives just days before the release of his highly-anticipated project, The Off-Season. In the documentary, J. Cole details his mindset going into the project and discusses getting comfortable in the rap industry while fighting to reach his highest […]
Nearly two decades after the rise and subsequent fall of the Bennifer empire, recent Raya jokes recipient Ben Affleck and Shotgun Wedding star Jennifer Lopez reportedly took a weeklong vacation together. Though it’s really none of our business, an E! News report on Monday claimed the former couple—who starred together in Martin Brest’s widely derided 2003 […]
In a testimony on Friday, a Los Angeles Police Department detective said a 15-year-old pulled the trigger in the fatal shooting of Pop Smoke last year, with the aim of stealing his diamond Rolex. The New York Daily News reports that the intruder who killed Pop after breaking into his Airbnb was the youngest of the five […]
Emergency services were called to a 19-storey tower-block over the weekend when a fire broke out at New Providence Wharf development, near Canary Wharf, which reportedly had cladding similar to that found on Grenfell Tower. So far, it appears no lives were lost, but according to the London Fire Brigade (LFB), two adults were taken to hospital to be treated for the […]
