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An ex-Florida sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 12-and-a-half years in prison for planting drugs during traffic stops and then arresting the drivers, the Associated Press reports. Zachary Wester was hit with 67 charges, including racketeering, official misconduct, fabricating evidence, perjury, false imprisonment, and possession of controlled substances and drug paraphernalia. He was ultimately convicted on […]
Dictionary.com added over 300 news words, terms, and revised definitions, some of which are a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them are terms like “long COVID,” which it defines as “a condition characterized by symptoms or health problems that linger or first appear after supposed recovery from an acute phase of Covid-19 infection.” The term “long hauler” is […]
Authorities are now investigating after two people were found dead at the former Versace mansion in South Florida. On Wednesday, per a Miami Beach Police Department announcement, authorities responded after receiving a call from the housekeeping staff at the location—which currently operates as a hotel—informing them of two dead males. Police and fire agencies were […]
Chrissy Teigen shared a lengthy message on Instagram Wednesday where she spoke candidly about her personal issues since being “canceled” over decade-old Twitter DMs where she bullied reality star Courtney Stodden when they were only 16 years old. “Iiiii don’t really know what to say here…just feels so weird to pretend nothing happened in this online world […]
A former high school student is being charged with two counts of third-degree computer crimes after unlawfully accessing his school’s computer database, putting a quote from Adolf Hitler in the yearbook, and attributing it to George Floyd. According to the New York Post, 18-year-old Connecticut high school grad Hollister Tryon submitted the following quote: “It is a […]
Pharrell has announced the winners of the Black Ambition and Black Ambition HBCU prizes. The non-profit initiative Black Ambition was announced last December, with Pharrell saying at the time that “recent events and tragedies” had again shown the “always existent” divisions in the American experience. With Black Ambition, Pharrell said when announcing the initiative, the […]
Upcoming changes in the moon’s orbit could have devastating effects on the United States. According to a newly published report, researchers at NASA and the University of Hawaii predict a “wobble” in the moon’s orbit, combined with rising sea levels due to climate change, will cause record flooding in the country’s coastal cities. NASA explains that these floods […]
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed Roy Moore’s defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen on Tuesday, Deadline reports. “Defendants have moved for summary judgment, arguing that Plaintiffs’ claims are barred by both a waiver clause in the agreement that Judge Moore signed prior to the interview and also by the […]
A Sarasota, Florida woman was forcibly taken off a plane this past Wednesday morning after her alleged refusal to put on a mask. According to NBC-2, 23-year-old Adelaide Schrowang was acting unruly and was in violation of the plane’s mask policies. Federal law still requires that every passenger wear a face covering when on a plane. […]
Sacha Baron Cohen has filed a lawsuit against a cannabis company, Solar Therapeutics, alleging that it was using his Borat persona to promote its brand of medical marijuana in Massachusetts. TMZ reports that Baron Cohen is upset about a giant billboard that was next to the interstate and included the face of the fictional Kazakhstani journalist alongside the […]
