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One Michigan resident took a chance this week and it paid off big time. The 29-year-old man— who kept his identity anonymous— purchased a Lucky 7’s lottery ticket at a grocery store before picking up his kids, just a year after he lost “everything” in a devastating flood, according to a release from the Michigan Lottery. The $20 ticket […]
Kim Kardashian took to social media to thank Joe Biden for finally recognizing that the 1915 mass murder of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire was a genocide. “After more than a century of fighting for truth and acknowledgment, today the Armenian people received the recognition we have all been hoping and praying for,” Kim wrote. […]
Chicago police say they have arrested a man in connection to the murder of Jaslyn Adams, a seven-year-old girl who was fatally shot while waiting in line at a McDonald’s drive-thru. According to the Sun-Times, officers arrested 18-year-old Marion Lewis on Thursday following a vehicle pursuit on Eisenhower Expressway. The Chicago Police Department announced Lewis’ charges during a […]
George Floyd’s convicted murderer will receive his sentencing in less than two months. According to CNN, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16, a little over one year after Floyd was killed while in police custody. Chauvin was recorded kneeling on the 46-year-old Black mans’ neck during an attempted arrest […]
A Texas school district says it’s taking disciplinary action against a group of high school students who allegedly held a mock “slave auction” on Snapchat. The Aledo Independent School District confirmed the racist stunt was carried out by students from the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus. CNN obtained screenshots from the Snapchat group, reportedly titled “N***** Auction,” where students pretended […]
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use, once again. According to the New York Times, United States health regulators ended the pause on the single dose shot on Friday afternoon, after an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged officials to resume its use. The vaccine was one of three shots […]
A Virginia sheriff’s deputy shot a Black man 10 times this week in a bizarre turn of events. WRC-TV reports that 32-year-old Isaiah Brown is now in the intensive care unit after being wounded in the face, neck, chest, and pelvic area. His family is also confused as to how this even happened. The incident […]
Family and friends were invited to attend the nuptials of a Florida couple last weekend inside their “dream home and estate.” However, the big day didn’t go as planned when the owner of the “dream home and estate” called police Saturday morning after spotting random people trying to get through his front gate, South Florida Sun Sentinel reports. The sprawling […]
Chilling footage of Dave Grossman, an ex-Army Ranger who became a notorious police trainer, has resurfaced amid constant and ongoing examples of police brutality nationwide. For some background, Grossman was among the law enforcement figures featured in a 2018 film from director Craig Atkinson titled Do Not Resist. “It’s my hope that both community members […]
The next time you want to add honey to something, you might want to think twice. According to a study conducted by Nature Communications, traces of radioactive chemicals from nuclear tests in the 1950s and 1960s can be found in American honey. The samples collected came from over 100 hives and soil samples all across the Eastern United States. […]
