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The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to include a question on the 2020 census form asking U.S. residents whether or not they are citizens. The court didn’t rule on whether or not including the citizenship question is unlawful but rather cited concerns over why the president’s administration wanted to include it in the first place. In […]
Florida Man is getting too bold—and apparently, it’s working for him. That’s all we can figure after hearing the news that a Miami man got off clean after flinging his own poop at a judge in his burglary case. Dorleans Philidor, 33, reportedly threw poop at Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Lisa Walsh ahead of closing arguments. […]
Does anybody have a 20 on David Duchovny? According to CNN, several U.S. senators were briefed in a private meeting about unidentifed aircraft sightings by Navy pilots. A group of US senators, including the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, received a classified briefing Wednesday about a series of reported encounters by the […]
Mohamed Morsi, the former president of Egypt who was ousted by the military in 2013, collapsed and died in a courtroom on Monday. The leader of the now-banned Islamist party the Muslim Brotherhood was in court for a hearing on espionage charges when he died at the age of 67. “He was speaking before the […]
Kim Kardashian returned to the White House on Thursday to announce a partnership with Lyft that will help provide former prisoners with gift cards which can be used to help get them to and from job interviews, work, etc. “Everyone wants the community to be safe, and the more opportunity we have and that they have and the support that we […]
Former Stanford University head sailing coach John Vandemoer received one day in prison for his role in the national college admissions scandal. He will also pay a $10,000 fine and have two years of supervised release with six months of home detention with electronic monitoring. Vandemoer is the first person associated with the scam to receive his sentence. Vandemoer acknowledged accepting $610,000 in bribes to help […]
The Canadian Senate passed legislation that would ban the keeping of whales and dolphins in captivity throughout the country, according to the CBC. The newly passed bill — dubbed the “Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act” — will make it illegal to import, export keep or breed whales, dolphins and porpoises. It will […]
An Illinois man was sentenced to prison for ordering 42 pounds of chocolate edibles. CNN reports that Thomas Franzen of the Chicagoland area pled guilty to possession of upwards of 5000 grams of cannabis and received the minimum sentence: 4 years in prison. In a statement from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office, prosecutors made it […]
A Canadian teenager may have paid a huge price for a chicken wing meal. And we mean huge. According to WTVR, the 16-year-old was slapped with hefty fines this month after he was busted behind the wheel of a Camaro driving 105 MPH. When confronted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the boy provided an unexpected excuse: […]
Nepali crews of sherpas have pulled over 24 thousand pounds of garbage and four bodies off of Mount Everest in the last two months. The expedition to remove garbage and bodies came as climbers were complaining of the amount of waste left on the mountain. The team of 20 sherpas was able to pull five […]