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For the fifth time, the Breakfast Club team welcomed Dr. Umar Johnson—who’s been widely criticized for telling people to skip out on the COVID-19 vaccine, as well as his massively detrimental pushing of homophobic messages—to the show. About 40 minutes into Monday’s appearance, the topic of the recent police killing of 16-year-old Black girl Ma’Khia […]
The Secretary of Homeland Security said Monday night that an internal review focused on domestic violent extremism threats within the department is being launched. In a memo first reported on by CBS News, DHS secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas pointed to “recent events,” including the fatal Capitol riot in January, as having highlighted what he described […]
A New Orleans street performer who dresses up in a Chewbacca outfit is wanted by the police after he allegedly stabbed somebody with a knife in the city’s usually-tourist-friendly French Quarter this past Saturday, April 24. Police say that on that date, just before 9 p.m., the person who dons the outfit of the massive Star Wars character got […]
On Monday, authorities announced the seizure of tens of thousands of fentanyl pills, approximated at about 25,000, as part of a multi-million dollar drug bust in New York’s Westchester County. On Wednesday 28-year-old Carlos Vasquez was arrested in New Jersey by that state’s police in connection with the drugs. The New York Drug Enforcement Task Force […]
Days after Andrew Brown Jr. was fatally shot by police Wednesday in North Carolina, his family has now seen the 20-second clip of police body camera footage from the shooting. Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputies attempted to serve Brown with an arrest warrant in Elizabeth City before the shooting, the sheriff’s office said. Few details have emerged regarding the […]
Body-cam footage of the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia is receiving renewed attention this week after an extended video was made public showing officers watching and laughing the recording. As highlighted by the Daily Beast’s Jamie Ross on Monday, the hour-long surveillance video shows the two officers from the Loveland Police Department […]
If you’re even remotely familiar with the state of Georgia, then you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the infamous Fulton County Jail. Earlier this year, for example, a report from regional news outlet WSB-TV found that the facility was over capacity by an estimated 400 inmates, resulting in conditions described by one Atlanta councilman […]
A Republican senator is no longer permitted to fly with Alaska Airlines after refusing to follow their mask policy. Over the weekend, a spokesperson for the airline confirmed this decision to the Anchorage Daily News, noting Alaska state senator Lora Reinbold’s repeated instances of not following the company’s travel rules. “We have notified Senator Lora […]
President Joe Biden has announced that the U.S. will be sending additional supplies and support to India as the country sees a spike in COVID cases, CNN reports. The aid, which will help manufacture the vaccine, fund vaccine manufacturers and fund medical equipment, comes after India reported nearly 350,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. Per CNN, that the spike […]
A UPS driver has gone viral after a Ring video showed him sprinting across the street to help a 4-year-old who was pinned under a package twice his size, Chicago Sun-Times reports. Marco Angel was heading towards his truck when he heard Max Pratt cry out for help while on his family’s porch outside their Oak […]
