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On Sunday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. granted TikTok a temporary reprieve that will allow users to continue downloading it past midnight on Monday, according to NBC News. Prior to that decision by U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump-administration-imposed-ban was set to go into effect that would’ve blocked users from adding the app. […]
In a bombshell report that dropped Sunday, the New York Times detailed Donald Trump‘s long-evasive tax returns, spanning over two decades. The most damning part of the report reveals that Trump paid only $750 in federal taxes in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Nor did he pay a cent in income taxes in 10 of the last 15 years. The NYT […]
Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, was found in the water supply of Brazosport Water Authority customers in Texas on Friday evening, forcing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to issue a water advisory and tell those customers to not to use any of their water. According to CNN, the Do Not Use Water Advisory was initially issued for residents […]
Though we’re still a day away from a formal announcement, Donald Trump has reportedly chosen his Supreme Court nominee. Republican sources tell CNN the president has selected Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative judge on Chicago’s 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Barrett is reportedly the only potential nominee who has met with Trump in-person. Insiders claim she was at the White House on Monday and Tuesday, and apparently […]
Charles Barkley is facing heat on social media after saying during NBA on TNT that Breonna Taylor‘s murder at the hands of police was different than the killings of George Floyd or Ahmaud Arbery. “It’s just bad the young lady lost her life, but we do have to take into account that her boyfriend did shoot at the cops and […]
The controversial verdict in the Breonna Taylor case has sparked a wide range of reactions from high-profile figures. On Wednesday, it was announced that the State of Kentucky would not pursue homicide charges against the three officers involved in Taylor’s fatal shooting. A grand jury decided to only indict one defendant—former Louisville officer Brett Hankison—on three felony counts […]
The family of Breonna Taylor is understandably outraged. More than six months after Taylor’s fatal police shooting, a grand jury announced none of the involved officers would be indicted on homicide charges. Instead, only one defendant—former Louisville officer Brett Hankison—was indicted on three counts of wanton endangerment in the first degree for shooting into a neighboring apartment. The jury […]
Donald Trump, who is still trailing in national polls, refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose November’s election. POTUS was pressed on the matter during Wednesday’s White House press briefing, raising more concerns that he will not accept a potential defeat or leave the office quietly. “Well, we’re going to […]
It has been 194 days since police fatally shot Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, while she slept in her bed. On March 13, around 1 a.m., plainclothes Louisville Metro Police Department Officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, along with Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, used a battering ram to force open Taylor’s apartment door while executing […]
A Louisville officer involved in the Breonna Taylor shooting insists he and his colleagues did nothing wrong on the night of the deadly raid. On Tuesday morning, Louisville police Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly sent a mass email within his department to defend his actions as well as slam Mayor Greg Fischer, Public Safety Chief Amy Hess, and former Louisville Metro […]
