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McDonald’s is exiting the Russian market entirely, the company announced on Monday. The process of selling its Russian business has now been initiated, per a report from the Associated Press, with McDonald’s confirming in a statement it is currently seeking to sell off “its entire portfolio” in Russia to a local buyer after more than […]
Haitian gang leader Germine ‘Yonyon’ Joly has been charged by federal prosecutors in the U.S. in connection with the kidnapping of 17 Christian missionaries last year, the Associated Press reports. The 29-year-old leader of the 400 Mawozo gang is the first person charged in connection with the kidnapping of 16 U.S. and one canadian missionaries in […]
Content warning: This story contains descriptions of anti-Black racism which may be disturbing to some readers. Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce participated in a mock slave auction while he was a frat leader at Western University. The event took place in 2006 at Sigma Chi fraternity’s Epsilon Omicron chapter, where Lecce served as president. Archives from Sigma […]
Nine suspects were arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport after passengers were sent graphic photos of plane crashes when they boarded the flight. As the Guardian reported, authorities believe the individuals arrested were responsible for sending the photos to other passengers on the taxiing airplane on Tuesday using the iPhone AirDrop function. When people received the images, there […]
A California woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for faking a cancer diagnosis and swindling donors out of $105,513, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Amanda Christine Riley of San Jose faked a Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis and said in 2012 she required donations to cover her medical expenses. The 37-year-old went so far as to blog […]
NASA will soon be sending nudes to space in order to attract attention from aliens, UK tabloid The Sun reports. according to a study released by the space administration. A study was published explaining that the images won’t be nude photographs of actual people, but rather pixelated nude stencils of a man and a woman next to a drawing of […]
Two new even more transmissible Omicron subvariants have been found in the United States, Deadline reports. First identified in South Africa, BA.4 and BA.5 were initially recorded on Jan. 10 and Feb. 26, respectively, but have only recently caused a dramatic spike in cases in their country of origin. Abdool Karim, public health expert at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, […]
While discussing first amendment rights on his HBO show The Real Time With Bill Maher, Bill Maher said he believed Twitter had already ‘failed’ in its new Elon Musk-driven mission to support free speech when it previously banned The New York Post for writing about Hunter Biden’s laptop. “The argument to me is, has Twitter failed in setting […]
The nation’s capital is abuzz this weekend, as some of the biggest names in politics, media, and entertainment gathered for the 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The annual event—hosted Hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA)—returned to D.C. Saturday night after a two-year hiatus due to the global pandemic. Launched in 1921, the black-tie dinner aims […]
Stephen A. Smith prompted reactions once again on Monday after he suggested that Kyrie Irving would use Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an excuse to not play. Prior to Monday’s First Take, Smith promised to go off on the Brooklyn Nets following the team’s third consecutive defeat at the hands of the Boston Celtics. “Honest to God […]
