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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson faced backlash on Tuesday after signing a near-total ban on abortions in the state. According the Associated Press, Senate Bill 6 was approved by the Arkansas Senate last month and the Arkansas House last week with overwhelming support. Gov. Hutchinson announced his intention to sign the bill into law, citing his […]
Thailand’s prime minister has pulled another bizarre stunt on the press. According to Reuters, the incident occurred Tuesday at the end of Prayuth Chan-ocha’s weekly press conference in Bangkok, when he was asked about potential changes to his cabinet. Questions of a shake-up have been swirling since last week, after three his ministers were found guilty of sedition for the […]
A Chicago man has been arrested after stopping to ask the police directions in a stolen car, Chicago’s NBC affiliate reports. Lafayette Moore was taken into custody on Friday for charges of motor vehicle theft, Joliet, Illinois police said in a statement. Per the police, an officer was investigating a crash when Moore approached the scene in a […]
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden’s two German Shepherds have been removed from the White House and are back in Wilmington, Delaware after a display of aggression from their 3-year-old dog Major, CNN reports. Major, who was adopted from a Delaware animal shelter by the Bidens back in November of 2018, was involved in a “biting incident” with […]
Here’s one to file under ‘the least you can do.’ A couple who was issued a $166 ticket after crashing their car into a median to avoid a couch that jumped from another driver’s truck to the interstate will get a recommendation from the Florida Highway Patrol that that ticket be dropped. The single-vehicle accident […]
Robert Burck, popularly known as the Times Square performer “Naked Cowboy,” was arrested Saturday in Florida during Daytona Beach’s annual Bike Week, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Dayton Beach police claim Burck was dressed in his usual “Naked Cowboy” attire of white briefs, cowboy boots, cowboy hat, and a guitar when they saw attendees gather around him […]
Serena Williams is showing support for her “selfless friend’ Meghan Markle following the airing of the much-anticipated Oprah interview. In a note shared to her Twitter and Instagram pages on Sunday night, Williams said pointed to her own firsthand experiences with “the sexism and racism institutions and the media use to vilify women and people […]
The Senate passed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package Saturday by a razor-thin voting margin of 50-49. The bill went through a few last-minute changes to get to the finish line, back to the House, and on President Joe Biden’s desk as early as next week. While a majority of Americans will still be receiving a […]
Charlotte Bennett, a former aide and one of the women accusing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment, tells CBS Evening News that his sexual harassment training was completed two years ago by someone on his staff. “In 2019, he did not take the sexual harassment training,” Bennett said. “I was there. I heard [the office director] […]
A bill in Kentucky that advanced through the state’s Senate committee on Thursday would make it a crime to insult or taunt a police officer during a riot, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Senate Bill 211, or SB211, stipulates that anyone who “accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words,” or […]
