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President Joe Biden appeared to be a bit fed up with a reporter over a question about inflation, and on Monday afternoon he let his feelings be known. According to Deadline, the interaction occurred following a White House meeting on Monday. As press were exiting the conference room, the reporter in question, Fox News’ Peter Doocy, managed to sneak […]
It seems Kodak Black has dodged another legal battle. As reported by Rolling Stone, Florida prosecutors have dismissed a trespassing charge against the 24-year-old rapper. The case stems from Kodak’s Jan. 1 arrest in his hometown of Pompano Beach, where he was visiting family for the holidays. The rapper was reportedly standing in a driveway next to his Lamborghini when officers […]
A California city has spent the last several years trying to solve its growing crow problem, using everything from reflectors on trees to letting a falcon on the loose. Though those tactics had some success, they weren’t enough to scare off the thousand-plus crows that’ve taken over Sunnyvale’s downtown area. So what does the city plan to do […]
Orlando’s top health official was suspended this month after he slammed his staff’s “pathetic” vaccination rate and urged them to get the jab. The New York Times reports the suspension stems from a Jan. 4 email in which Dr. Raul Pino—director of the Florida Department of Health in Orange County—expressed concern over the number of staffers who had yet to be fully […]
The White House will distribute hundreds of millions of free N95 masks, marking the implementation of something that most certainly should have occurred much earlier in the (still ongoing) pandemic. “This is the largest deployment of personal protective equipment in U.S. history,” a White House official was quoted as saying in a report from Reuters […]
The comic book city of Gotham seems like a truly miserable place to live, in large part thanks to all the villains that infest it, and it looks like the Missouri State Highway Patrol accidentally tricked its residents into thinking they had their own wild DC characters running around. According to KSDK, on Tuesday afternoon people […]
Health Canada has approved the use of Pfizer’s antiviral pill treatment for COVID-19. The federal health agency says the prescription-only medication, dubbed Paxlovid, can be given to adults ages 18 who have mild to moderate cases of COVID-19 and are at a high risk of becoming more seriously ill. The decision comes as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have been surging […]
The island of Tongatapu—Tonga’s largest—has been hit by a tsunami following an underwater volcanic eruption, and now the U.S. west coast is seeing an advisory of its own. The advisory stretches from California to Alaska—including British Columbia for our neighbors in Canada—and satellites are showing ash clouds and shockwaves appearing from the volcano, per CNN. In Tonga, the coastal capital […]
A tiny Shih Tzu had a bit of a “ruff” day on Thursday, after it found itself stuck in the middle of a frozen river. The small dog, which was apparently chasing geese before its leash got stuck on the Seneca River in Lysander, was eventually rescued by the New York’s Plainville Fire Department, according to Syracuse.com, but […]
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has provided an update on plans for a more Omicron-specific version of the COVID-19 vaccine. Speaking with CNBC on Monday, Bourla was asked about the status of both an “update” to the current Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine and the possibility of another booster being recommended. “We are doing everything we can […]
