2020
During the first year of the pandemic, the number of gun deaths in the U.S. experienced what experts are calling an unprecedented increase, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From 2019 to 2020, a 35 percent increase marked the “highest number of firearm homicides in 20 years,” per Deb Houry of the CDC’s National Center […]
A lawsuit filed against the city of Columbus, Ohio for excessive police force in the summer of 2020 has settled with those injured for $5.75 million, ABC News reports. The decision came on Thursday, nearly a year and a half after the suit was filed in July of 2020 when “some plaintiffs were significantly injured” in the protests, […]
COVID-19 relief payments enacted by Congress ultimately helped the country report an overall drop in poverty last year, fresh U.S. Census data shows. The official poverty rate for 2020 has been determined to be 11.4 percent, meaning a single percentage point increase from the 2019 rate of 10.5. While this marks the first increase in […]
On Tuesday, a verdict was reached in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the now-former Minneapolis cop who was filmed fatally holding his knee to George Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds on May 25, 2020. Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all three counts—second degree murder, third degree murder, and second degree manslaughter. […]
Twitter will not archive tweets from former POTUS Donald Trump’s permanently suspended account. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), an independent government agency in charge of preserving and documenting historical records, is currently working on an official online archive of the ex-Apprentice host’s tweets during his time as POTUS, including the ones that ultimately resulted […]
The biggest asteroid of the year is set to pass by Earth on Sunday (March 21) but rest assured, this is not another pre-apocalyptic event to cross off on your 2021 bingo board. According to Live Science, scientists say that the large asteroid will be whizzing by the planet at a very safe distance with […]
The distribution of white supremacist propaganda surged across the U.S. last year, as shown in a new annual report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). “Hate propaganda is a tried-and-true tactic for white supremacists, and this on the ground activity is now higher than we’ve ever previously recorded,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, said in […]
If you’re adept at avoiding stories of the who-gives-a-fuck variety, then you likely missed the one about an aide vomitously referring to Trump, a failed steak salesman, as “the most masculine person ever.” That quote in question, as well as ongoing news surrounding the MAGA cult members who violently invaded the Capitol earlier this month, […]
Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker, announced on Sunday the House will move forward with legislation to impeach Donald Trump. “Well, sadly, the person that’s running the Executive Branch is a deranged, unhinged, and dangerous president of the United States, with only a number of days until we can be protected from him,” Pelosi said during a […]
Never has a year been more in need of a swift ending than in 2020. Sending this year off with face-to-face collective inebriation, however, isn’t possible due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Still, plenty of brands and artists have stepped up with alternative ways of careening into 2021 from the stress-complicated comforts of home. One such entity […]
