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Police in Australia arrested and charged a woman with incitement for endorsing an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook. Zoe-Lee Buhler’s partner livestreamed her arrest on the social media platform, which shows Victoria police entering her home with a warrant and handcuffing her in her pajamas. “You’re under arrest in relation to incitement,” one of the officers says, explaining […]
Bill Barr insists the police shootings of unarmed African Americans aren’t racially motivated. The Attorney General made the comments during an appearance on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, claiming there was a “false narrative” about racial biases within criminal justice system. Barr told Blitzer that there were some situations in which a Black person […]
The FBI is reportedly looking into claims that some yahoo was flying thousands of feet above Los Angeles with a jetpack this past Sunday. This person was sighted by two different pilots on two different flights, according to NBC News. One of the pilots was working for American Airlines. Said pilot was on approach to L.A. […]
The Trump administration announced an order Tuesday that will temporarily ban residential evictions for tens of millions of Americans. According to NPR, the moratorium gives the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the authority to prohibit evictions through the end of 2020. The move was made in response to the increasing concern over mass homelessness, as many […]
The University of California is now prohibited from accepting standardized testing scores from prospective students. According to CNN, a state court issued a preliminary injunction this week that prevents schools within the UC system from using SAT and ACT results as criteria for admissions and/or scholarships. The ruling was deemed a victory for students with […]
A petition posted this past weekend pushing to get a Confederate statue replaced with a Chadwick Boseman memorial has generated more than 15,000 signatures. The proposed statue swap would occur in Anderson, South Carolina, the hometown of Boseman. The star of Black Panther, Marshall, and many other films passed away on Friday due to colon cancer. He was […]
Nine years ago an 84-year-old Harry Belafonte appeared to fall asleep before he was able to be interviewed by local news. It was fairly relatable. Fast forward to Sunday night and that clip was being used by White House director of social media, Dan Scavino, on his personal account to make a joke about Joe Biden being old/sleepy. […]
Last week, the job of a select group of U.S. Border Patrol agents was made very easy when a cocaine shipment with an estimated value of more than $1 million simply washed onto the shore of a beach in Florida, per CNN. That load of narcotics, which was in 30 packages, was found last Monday by […]
Kanye West‘s embattled presidential campaign, which many have accused of being a ploy to divert votes from Joe Biden in an effort to help Donald Trump, is facing more charges of gathering signatures using deceptive methods, The Washington Post reports. This time around, claims of the campaign’s fraudulent behavior have been filed in Virginia. The State Board of Elections received […]
The Republican National Convention wrapped up Thursday night with President Donald Trump formally accepting the party’s presidential nomination. And his speech was littered with both predictable and misleading statements. While speaking from the South Lawn of the White House, Trump addressed everything from cancel culture to the so-called “socialist agenda” to the perceived weaknesses of his Democratic opponent Joe Biden. But […]
