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Two on-duty NYPD officers were caught in the Bronx smoking hookah while standing next to their patrol car over the weekend, the New York Post reports. Their vehicle was stationed outside of an apartment building across from the Bronx Zoo Sunday as part of an initiative to address the growing number of shootings across the city over the last few weeks. […]
This week a jump in reported COVID-19 related deaths, thanks to new data, revealed the severity of Texas’ crisis as one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots. That data also illustrated the wide discrepancy in deaths by race, with Hispanic residents disproportionately representing 47 percent of the state’s fatalities. Hispanic Texans make up only 40 percent of the overall […]
Donald Trump made another desperate attempt to win back suburban voters. And the classist, racist undertones couldn’t be ignored. On Wednesday, the president returned to Twitter to celebrate the repeal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law—an Obama-era regulation that aimed to combat racial discrimination. Trump told suburbanites that his decision to rescind the rule meant […]
Two 10th grade girls from India made national headlines after discovering an Earth-bound asteroid. According to CNN, Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya made the discovery while working on a school project in which students use special software to analyze images captured by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. The project is part of an asteroid search campaign launched by SPACE India in […]
The World Health Organization has revealed that unlike other viruses, COVID-19 is not subjected to seasonal fluctuations. As Reuter reports, WHO instead says the pandemic is taking shape as “one big wave” that perseveres regardless of the time of the year. “We are in the first wave. It’s going to be one big wave. It’s […]
A gathering in Texas hosted by a self-described COVID-19 denier resulted in 14 family members testing positive for the virus. Since the gathering, one family member has died and another is currently on life support. As NBC reports, this story comes directly from Tony Green, who shared his family’s tragedy in a column published by […]
Last week, President Trump said he was going to be throwing out the first pitch before a Yankees home game, probably on August 15, after being asked to do so.“Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees,” Trump told reporters on Thursday, referencing the Yankees’ president. “And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, […]
Over the weekend a wide-ranging Elon Musk interview with The New York Times was published. As you can tell from your built in powers of intuition (and also the headline) one of the topics that came up was Kanye West‘s current presidential campaign. Specifically, Musk thinks the time for Kanye’s run would be better suited for 2024. “I’ve done my […]
A heated exchange broke out at a Minnesota Walmart this weekend, after a white couple appeared at the store wearing swastika face coverings. The incident reportedly occurred Saturday, one day after the state’s mask mandate went into effect. A viral video shows the man and woman at a cash register as other customers confront them […]
With all that 2020 has hurled at us with breakneck swiftness, one could very easily argue that the recent series of developments in the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) sector—though now consistently a subject of mainstream news coverage—are still not being discussed as frequently as these revelations seem to warrant. For the latest, we turn to […]
