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For any fans of the Making a Murderer docuseries on Netflix, you’ll likely remember the name Brendan Dassey. He was sentenced to life in prison for allegedly helping his uncle murder 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach and his story was the focus of the series. Though it’s been about three years since the series was released […]
The House of Representatives capped off an exhaustive eight-plus hours of debates on Wednesday filled with arguments from both sides of the aisle with a majority of lawmakers voting in support of impeaching Donald Trump on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump joins Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton as the only three U.S. presidents to be impeached […]
For a brief moment on Wednesday morning, Francis Tseng found himself questioning his geography knowledge. Tseng, a Brooklyn resident and fellow at the Jain Family Institute, said he was conducting research on the Agricultural Tariff Tracker when he noticed an unusual, but familiar, name on the U.S. free trade partners list. The country was Wakanda—the fictional land depicted in Marvel’s Black Panther […]
Donald Trump is feeling pressed—and understandably so. The president has penned an angry six-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), accusing her and House Democrats of “subverting America’s democracy” by pursuing impeachment. The letter was sent Tuesday, a day before the House is expected to vote on two charges against Trump, who is accused of extorting a foreign […]
Politico reports that Congress plans on raising the minimum age for the purchase of tobacco to 21 as part of a $1.4 trillion spending bill that must be passed by December 20 to avoid a government shutdown. The bipartisan support that this legislation has received is likely in response to the 52 deaths in the United States stemming from the use […]
Former President Barack Obama told attendees at a private event in Singapore that women make better leaders than men. He admitted that women aren’t perfect, but they are “pretty indisputably” better than men. “Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re […]
David Wright, Ph.D., a 69-year-old physics and astronomy professor at Tidewater Community College in Virginia, has received an outpouring of admiration and respect after one of his students posted a compilation of all of his over-the-top demonstrations throughout the semester on Twitter. Erica Church, a sophomore at TCC, admits to Buzzfeed News that she was “a little worried” prior to attending Wright’s Elements of […]
Hours after House Democrats unveiled two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, the president’s campaign tweeted a video that was less of a clapback and more of a self-own. The clip shows Trump’s head superimposed on the body of Thanos—the murderous supervillain who had wiped out half of the world’s population. “House Democrats can push their […]
If you are searching for a job, learn from the mistakes of Veronica Hilda Theriault and don’t lie on your resume. Theriault, 46, was convicted Tuesday of deception, dishonesty, and abuse of public office for lying on her resume to land a job as chief information officer in South Australia’s Department of the Premier and Cabinet where she would earn an annual salary of $185,000, CNN […]
The military dog that helped take down an ISIS leader last month appeared at the White House this week to receive a medal for his heroism. But according to military sources, this honor was nonexistent until recently—when Donald Trump made it up. A spokesperson for the U.S. Special Ops told TMZ that Conan the Belgian Malinois received an award that was specifically created for […]
