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A man who was reported missing hours earlier was found dead Saturday inside the leg of a dinosaur statue in a town near Barcelona, Spain, The Guardian reports. A father and son alerted authorities when they noticed something inside the papier-mâché stegosaurus in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Officers called upon local firefighters to cut the dinosaur’s leg in an […]
A drug dealer’s “love of Stilton cheese” proved to be his undoing when police were able to identify him based on a photo he shared on what he believed to be an encrypted messaging service, CNN reports. Carl Stewart, 39, of Liverpool, was sentenced Friday to 13 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to […]
A startling new poll finds that over half of Republican voters incorrectly consider Donald Trump to be the “true President,” nearly five months after he half-heartedly conceded the 2020 election. In a Ipsos/Reuters poll released Friday, just over 2,000 U.S. adults from differing political parties were asked about their feelings towards the election results, the methods of voting, namely the absentee […]
President Biden’s latest budget will reportedly not include forgiveness for student loan debt. In previous news on the combination of Biden and student loans, the then-presidential-candidate had campaigned on his support of wiping out $10,000 of undergrad/grad student debt per year of national or community service, up to five years and $50K. After winning the election […]
Nearly 50 percent of all adults in the U.S. are now fully vaccinated. This stat, among other notable milestones, is included in the latest update from the CDC regarding nationwide vaccination data. 49.6 percent of the U.S. population 18 years of age and older are now fully vaccinated, while 61.3 percent of all adults have […]
Three lab researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology were sent to the hospital with an illness in the fall of 2019, the Wall Street Journal reports. Per the report, intelligence gathered by “an international partner” further raises suspicion brought on by a State Department document which claims that employees at the lab where the coronavirus possibly originated from were hospitalized with symptoms “consistent […]
Almost 150 people were arrested Saturday night after a huge birthday party in California went viral on TikTok, BuzzFeed News reports. Huntington Beach Police Department arrested 121 adults and 28 minors on charges ranging from vandalism to setting off illegal fireworks after an event known as “Adrian’s Kickback” drew an estimated 2,500 attendees. The scene could best be described by […]
Two people were killed and another 12 injured at a mass shooting at a house party in Bridgeton, New Jersey last night. One of the 12 people injured was in critical condition, and the two victims, whose names have not been released, were a 25-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man. The motive remains under investigation, police […]
In a meeting with the South Korean President on Friday, President Joe Biden revealed himself to be a lover of K-pop. As reported by Variety, President Biden highlighted the genre in a meeting with Moon Jae-In, calling K-pop fans “universal.” “Our people share a long history. Our soldiers have fought alongside one another. Our scientists […]
Two prison guards assigned to keep watch on Jeffrey Epstein the night he died in his jail cell have admitted they falsified records. The Associated Press reports that the two Bureau of Prisons workers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, will not face time behind bars despite allegations they slept and browsed the internet instead of […]
