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The Salvation Army is being sued over its controversial rehabilitation program. According to CBS 5, a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court last Friday argues the charitable organization should properly compensate those who were accepted into its six-month residential program. The Salvation Army website states its drug and alcohol treatment programs provide recovering addicts “housing, food, counseling, community, and […]
An aspiring rapper who admitted to stealing millions of dollars to boost his music career has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, 33-year-old Chad Arrington, aka “Chad Focus,” received his sentence Wednesday, more than a year after he pleaded guilty to federal wire […]
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced the “Vax-a-Million” initiative Wednesday in which five adult residents will be eligible to receive $1 million each, and five teens could be in play for a full scholarship, if they are vaccinated, The Columbus Dispatch reports. This announcement comes on the heels of his declaration that Ohio’s mask mandate will be lifted on June 2. DeWine explained that he […]
It’s a wild scene at Rick Ross’ Georgia estate. According to TMZ, local law enforcement began surrounding the property Tuesday evening, after the Clayton County Sheriff’s office received a call about a man with a gun. Officers then pursued the suspect in a vehicle, which he ultimately crashed outside Ross’ home. The allegedly armed man then fled on foot, before […]
On Monday, a NASA spacecraft filled with asteroid rubble, called Osiris-REx, started its journey back to Earth. It should be here in *checks watch* roughly two-and-a-half years. Osiris-REx first got to asteroid Bennu in 2018. For two years it flew near/around it. Then it touched down and collected debris. It’s estimated to be holding somewhere between half a […]
The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people in the United States between the ages of 12 and 15 years old, CNN reports. An advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet Wednesday to review the data provided by Pfizer, […]
On Monday, a group of 44 attorneys general, made up of both Democrats and Republicans, put their signatures on a letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg encouraging him to ax Facebook’s plan to launch a version of Instagram for kids younger than 13. The letter justifies its ask based on mental health and privacy concerns for its young users, […]
The Biden administration is restoring health care protections for transgender people. On Monday, per the Associated Press, President Biden announced that the Department of Health and Human Services had again affirmed that federal laws against sex discrimination also protected gay and transgender Americans. During the Trump era, notably, the previous administration had insisted on the […]
Shortly after Donald Trump was elected to office four years ago, his admin’s Department of Justice secretly obtained the phone records of Washington Post journalists, as per the Washington Post’s report on the matter. The Justice Department secretly seized the work, home, and cellphone numbers of reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, as well as former Post journalist Adam Enotus. In […]
On Saturday, Barack and Michelle Obama announced the death of their family dog, Bo. “Today our family lost a true friend and loyal companion,” wrote Barack Obama alongside a series of photos of Bo, who they welcomed into their family in 2009. “For more than a decade, Bo was a constant, gentle presence in our lives—happy […]
