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On Tuesday, Zachary Horwitz, a small-time actor, was arrested in Los Angeles for his alleged involvement in a massive Ponzi scheme, according to The LA Times. Authorities say that the 34-year-old Horwitz defrauded investors out of $227 million by peddling fake licensing deals with HBO, Netflix, and others. Horwitz has appeared in films using the name […]
Heinz confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday that the company will expand its efforts to address an unlikely byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted restaurants and fast food chains across the United States: a ketchup packet shortage. Manufacturing lines will be increased by about 25 percent to produce more than 12 billion packets a year. In […]
Back in March, President Biden announced that he had directed states and regions in the U.S. to make all adults vaccine-eligible by the beginning of May. Now, that pivotal date is being moved up nearly two weeks. On Tuesday, the Associated Press cited an anonymous White House official as having confirmed that Biden would soon announce […]
A Montana man alleges his 6-year-old son found a bullet inside a bag of otherwise delectable Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. That’s the claim from a man said to be named Bow Horn Weasel, per a TMZ report on Tuesday. According to their rundown, the Montana man first purchased a bag of Flamin’ Hot-ified Cheetos Puffs on […]
An 18-year-old who was fatally shot just over a week ago is being hailed for his actions in the moments that directly preceded the loss of his life. Al-Tarrek “Rico” Bell was killed when somebody shot up the car he was in as it backed out of a parking space. The shooting happened around 12:20 […]
Utah has become the first state to mandate prenatal child support, AP reports. Gov. Spencer Cox recently signed a measure that would require biological fathers to pay for half of out-of-pocket pregnancy costs. Some have argued that this proposal falls short in addressing the wide array of maternal health care needs, but the bill’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Brady Brammer, believes this […]
Though the line for April Fools’ pranks (well, pranks in general) is often blurred, a 58-year-old Kansas woman, Arnthia Willis, provided an example of what constitutes crossing it. So take note of her screw-up and then bookmark it for the purpose of consulting annually/weekly/however frequently you prank people until you’re memorized it. Willis reportedly phoned a family member […]
An emerging coronavirus variant that experts believe to be partly responsible for the surge in cases in India has now been found in California. The Stanford Clinical Virology Lab identified one case of the “double mutant” variant in the Bay Area and is screening seven other possible cases, spokesperson Lisa Kim told the San Francisco Chronicle. […]
In January of this year, the U.S. Capitol was violently stormed amid efforts to overturn the defeat of Donald J. Trump in the 2020 presidential election against former VP Joe Biden. Ahead of the riot, Trump and several of his most prominent supporters had publicly reiterated false claims about the veracity of the election results, […]
Personal information for more than 533 million Facebook users across 106 different countries was published over the weekend in what’s being described as a “low level hacking forum.” Of the more than 533 million reported users, more than 32 million of them are said to be based in the U.S. Information shared to the hacker-utilized site—as […]
