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A suspect is wanted after robbing a barber in the Bronx who was in the middle of shaving a customer. The NYPD has shared surveillance footage of the barber having his personal property stolen from his shop on East 183rd Street, Pix 11 reports. The suspect walked up to the 27-year-old barber and pulled out a gun […]
In an effort to reinstate COVID-19 travel restrictions, the European Union is set to remove the United States from its safe travel list. According to the New York Times, the E.U. Council will on Monday announce its decision to take six countries off its non-binding list: the U.S., Kosovo, Israel, Montenegro, Lebanon and North Macedonia. As a result, citizens of the aforementioned […]
The rising death toll from COVID-19 has put a serious strain on two Oregon counties—so much that officials have sought refrigerated trucks to store the bodies of deceased patients. Associated Press reports Tillamook County and Josephine County requested the trucks on Friday, as the United States experiences an alarming surge in Delta variant cases and COVID hospitalizations. The former county […]
A school district in Waukesha, Wisconsin has decided to opt out of a federally funded program that provides all students with free lunch regardless of income status. WISN 12 reports Waukesha is the only district in the entire state to do away with the federal free lunch program, which was implemented nationwide last year by the federal government […]
Scientists revealed Wednesday that the fossil from a new amphibious four-legged whale species known as Phiomicetus anubis was discovered in the Fayum Depression of the Western Desert in Egypt, BBC News reports. Dating back 43 million years, this species was named after the area where the discovery was made and Anubis, the Egyptian jackal-headed god […]
COVID-19 regulations are still becoming an increasingly controversial point of contention. Yet a new study by the AP indicates the majority of Americans are in favor of mandatory vaccines. A poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 59 percent of remote workers support vaccine requirements in their own workplaces, compared to 47 percent of people who are currently working in […]
Colorado high school students are demonstrating in support of Inoke Tonga, a volleyball coach who claims he was forced to resign from his job because of his sexuality. According to the Denver Post, Tonga left his position at Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, where he had coached the volleyball team during the 2020-2021 school year. The […]
TikTok has addressed the viral “Milk Crate Challenge,” saying they will begin removing videos that “glorify dangerous acts” from the platform. In a rare statement obtained by Fast Company, a spokesperson for TikTok responded to the recent backlash surrounding the viral trend. “TikTok prohibits content that promotes or glorifies dangerous acts, and we remove videos and redirect […]
A woman very into a male chimpanzee living at a zoo in Antwerp, Belgium has been banned from said zoo because officials think the cross-species relationship they got going is bad for the chimp, and will negatively affect his ability to socialize with his own kind. “I love that animal and he loves me,” Adie Timmermans reportedly said to regional […]
With the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine now having received full approval from the FDA, the hope among health experts is that many of those who have thus far refused to get vaccinated will finally see the light. In fact, as Dr. Anthony Fauci explained on Monday, COVID-19 could be under much better control by the first half of […]
