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Norway’s military is addressing an underwear, sock, and bra shortage by telling those who have completed their service to return their undergarments for use by the next wave of recruits, Washington Post reports. Conscripts were once allowed to keep their underwear and shirts, as well as headgear and field boots, but when the military started to feel the […]
Tennessee Rep. Jeremy Faison was booted from a high school basketball game following an incident with a referee during which he unsuccessfully attempted to perform a pantsing. Per a regional report from WJHL, Faison—a Republican who serves as the state’s GOP House Caucus Chairman—made his way onto the court during a Providence Academy home game against […]
A former member of the Sicilian mafia group known as Stidda was arrested last month after he was found living in Spain on Google Maps, nearly two decades after escaping prison, Reuters reports. Gioacchino Gammino, 61, had been living in the town of Galapagar where he owned a fruit and vegetable shop called El Huerto de Manu, or Manu’s Garden, a possible […]
A woman in Argentina took off her dress in an ice cream shop in an attempt to repurpose it as a face mask to abide by the store’s mask policy, the New York Post reports. In video making the rounds online and recorded off a security camera, the woman enters the store in the province of Mendoza and can be seen […]
A man in Florida is accused of fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars through the Paycheck Protection Program, and using that money to buy a Lamborghini, in addition to other luxury items and designer clothing. The U.S. Department of Justice said Valesky Barosy, 27, sought more than $4.2 million in PPP loans by submitting an application […]
Johnson & Johnson has announced preliminary results from a study showing that a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine boasts 85 percent effectiveness against hospitalization. On Thursday, the company said that newly revealed preliminary results from a South African Phase 3b study showed that a homologues (i.e. the same vaccine) booster dose also reduced COVID-spurred hospitalization risk […]
Barack Obama says he “wouldn’t have been president” without the “encouragement and support” of former Nevada senator Harry Reid, who died on Tuesday at the age of 82. The quote was included in Obama’s final letter to Reid, which the two-term POTUS shared publicly “in lieu of a statement” regarding his friend’s death. “When Harry […]
On Tuesday, Westchester District Attorney Miriam Rocah announced that former New York governor Andrew Cuomo will not be facing criminal charges after two women accused him of inappropriate conduct, including unwanted kissing. The DA’s office released a statement detailing their findings. The investigation concluded that they did not find enough evidence to support the claim that […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shortened the recommended isolation time for those with COVID-19—as well as people who have come into close contacts with those who’ve tested positive—from 10 days to 5 days. The change—which Dr. Anthony Fauci previously said was “under consideration”—comes as officials say evidence points to people being most infectious in the two […]
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has been ordered by a court to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in a divorce settlement that’s among the largest in British history. Per an Associated Press report on the latest surrounding the divorce, a November ruling made public this week saw a High Court judge stating that […]
