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As the year draws to a close, tens of thousands of Colorado residents have been forced to leave their homes due to wind-driven wildfires across the state. Per the Associated Press, authorities said at least 500 homes have been destroyed in the fires and at least seven people have been injured. So far, as of […]
An intense video shared by TMZ shows an allegedly inebriated Los Angeles International would-be passenger getting taken down after he laid hands on a police officer. The man was denied when he tried to board his flight, reportedly due to how drunk he was. When he began to make a scene, officers were called in to assist. […]
A member of the jury for the trial of former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter says they believed the cop “made a mistake” when she fatally shot Daunte Wright. In an anonymous interview with with KARE-TV, the juror said that while they ultimately convicted Potter of manslaughter they do not feel as though she’s a racist. […]
Italian anti-vaccine and COVID-19 skeptic radio personality Maurizio Buratti has died from the novel coronavirus after boasting about his maskless escapades. Per the Daily Beast, Buratti, who called himself a “plague spreader,” was hospitalized earlier this month, and died following COVID-19 health complications on Monday, Dec. 27. The controversial radio personality, who also goes by the […]
Barack Obama says he “wouldn’t have been president” without the “encouragement and support” of former Nevada senator Harry Reid, who died on Tuesday at the age of 82. The quote was included in Obama’s final letter to Reid, which the two-term POTUS shared publicly “in lieu of a statement” regarding his friend’s death. “When Harry […]
HBO is teaming up with Succession’s executive producer Adam McKay to bring to life a limited series about the creation of the COVID-19 vaccine. The First Shots series will be based on the book The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell. The award-winning journalist based the […]
Five anti-vaccine protesters were arrested by NYPD officers on Tuesday after they stormed a Burger King in Downtown Brooklyn and refused to leave. The protesters, none of whom were masked, were caught on video screaming at the store’s employees after they were refused service. New York City currently requires proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to eat indoors. “If […]
A 15-year-old boy fell from a balcony to his death on a cruise ship returning to Miami this past week in what authorities suspect was a suicide. According to what the Miami-Dade Police Department told People, the unidentified teenager jumped from a high balcony on the MSC Cruise ship that had just completed a five-night trip in the Bahamas […]
The first family brought some holiday cheer to hospitalized children and their families. According to USA Today, President Joe Biden joined First Lady Jill Biden on a Christmas Eve visit to the National Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. The White House says its a decades-long tradition for the first lady to visit the hospital around Christmas, but Biden’s appearance marked […]
As an explosive fire raged through a Manhattan apartment building, two teenagers were filmed escaping the blaze by climbing out a fourth floor window and sliding down an exterior pole. According to the New York City Fire Department, the incident took place at around 7:15 Thursday morning at the NYCHA-run Riis Houses in the East Village. […]
