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Nearly 63 years after it was actually supposed to be back, a very, very overdue book has finally been returned to the Fenham Library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. BBC News reports that the work, a first edition copy of Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, was supposed to be back on November 25, 1958. Accompanying the severely behind return was […]
A Tennessee conservative radio host who mocked vaccinations and spread misinformation about COVID-19 has been hospitalized with COVID and is said to be regretful he wasn’t a vocal enough advocate for vaccines, the New York Times reports. Phil Valentine of 99.7 WWTN-FM in Nashville is receiving supplemental oxygen for COVID pneumonia, according to his family, after months of […]
A Florida man accidentally shot himself this week while showing off his new gun to patrons in a Pensacola bar. The Pensacola News Journal reports the incident took place on Thursday night around 11 p.m at O’Riley’s Uptown Tavern in Pensacola. Surveillance video captured Carlos Feituuaki Tuifua, 28, pulling out a handgun and showing it to a pair of […]
Derek Chauvin’s first prison mugshots were released on Saturday, nearly one month after he was sentenced for the murder of George Floyd. The photos, published by TMZ, were reportedly taken on June 28 at Oak Park Heights correctional facility in Minnesota, which is located about 30 miles from where Floyd was killed. Chauvin was convicted of killing the 46-year-old Black […]
A Rochester reporter has gone viral after sharing a video of herself being verbally harassed before shooting a segment for Spectrum News 1. Brianna Hamblin shared the clip on Friday, which was recorded moments before her live shot, where a man began making crude comments to her as she was waiting for the camera to roll. […]
Federal prosecutors asked for a judge’s permission on Friday to share new allegations against R. Kelly during his upcoming sex trafficking trial in Brooklyn, arguing that they are “directly relevant to and inextricably intertwined with the evidence of the charged crimes.” The allegations, according to NPR, include a 17-year-old boy being sexually abused, teenage girls and […]
Earlier this week, meteorological officials for the United Arab Emirates shared video of considerable downpour in Ras al Khaimah, the northernmost part of the country. The rainfall was the result of a method deployed by the UAE where rainstorms are created by using drones to zap clouds with electricity, The Washington Post reports. With temperatures reaching upwards of 115 degrees […]
Kentaro Kobayashi, director for the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Tokyo, has been fired for a Holocaust joke he made over two decades ago, The Daily Beast reports. Olympic Organizing Committee president Seiko Hashimoto confirmed his dismissal in a press conference Thursday, saying the commission was made aware of the resurfaced video containing the joke two […]
A new study from Denmark reveals that the connection between people who experience schizophrenia and who smoke a problematic amount of weed is on the rise, CNN reports. The study, which was published in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry, shows that the link between the mental health disorder and cannabis use disorder in Denmark was two […]
A man who had COVID-19 was arrested after disguising himself as his wife so that he could board an Indonesian flight traveling from Jakarta to Ternate. “He bought the plane ticket with his wife’s name and brought the identity card, the PCR test result, and the vaccination card with his wife’s name. All documents are […]
