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Four Parisian police officers have been charged in the beating of a Black music producer earlier this month, after video of the cops beating him in the doorway of his recording studio went viral. The inciting incident appeared to be Zecler standing outside the studio without a face covering, which is illegal under France’s coronavirus […]
Rita Ora posted an apology for celebrating her 30th birthday in defiance of the United Kingdom’s coronavirus lockdown. The pop singer shared a note to her Instagram Story that said she was “deeply sorry” and “embarrassed” over her actions. “I attended a small gathering with some friends to celebrate my 30th birthday. It was a […]
Moderna is asking regulators in the U.S. and Europe to fast-track emergency approval of its COVID-19 vaccine, after tests showed it to be 94 percent effective in protecting users against the deadly virus. The two-shot vaccine was tested on a massive sample of 30,000 people. Over the course of the the study, 196 people overall […]
President-elect Joe Biden announced Sunday that his administration will have an all-female senior White House communications team, the Washington Post reports. “I am proud to announce today the first senior White House communications team comprised entirely of women,” Biden said in his statement. “These qualified, experienced communicators bring diverse perspectives to their work and a shared commitment to building […]
The Department of Justice has published a new rule that could allow for the use of more execution methods for federal death sentences. These could include death by electrocution or firing squads. According to ProPublica, the rule cleared White House review at the beginning of November and will go into effect on Christmas Eve, just weeks before Donald Trump exits […]
Kodak Black‘s legal troubles can be hard to untangle. But he’s taking a chance on quickly unraveling his most pressing case: the federal weapons charge that has him currently imprisoned. Now, the rapper is reaching out to Donald Trump in the hopes that the president can issue im a pardon, freeing Kodak on his way out […]
Trump’s reelection campaign has suffered another blow after a Pennsylvania federal appeals court rejected the sitting president’s attempts to invalidate the outcome of the state’s election. CNBC reports that the three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit—who were nominated by Republican presidents—ruled that the Trump campaign’s “claims have no merit.” The decision […]
Former POTUS Barack Obama‘s new book A Promised Land, released Nov. 17, bagged the largest first-day sales total for any book ever published by Penguin Random House. The publisher announced this week that Obama’s book sold more than 887,000 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada on its first day of […]
The 2020 edition of the notorious holiday centered around turkey and revisionist history, this year complicated by an ongoing pandemic, also brought with it a failed steak salesman appearance during which the bulk of the general public’s attention was centered on the symbolism of a hilariously small desk. Trump, expectedly, largely used the moment to […]
Thanksgiving, a holiday already rife with issues, is a particularly worrisome calendar entry in 2020 thanks to the ongoing pandemic. For those celebrating safely, however, it’s an opportunity to—at the very least—kick back and peruse a new holiday message from Tiger King subject Joe Exotic. Mr. Exotic—who is presently serving a 22-year sentence stemming from […]
