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A family was booted from a United Airlines flight in Denver and banned for life when their 2-year-old daughter wouldn’t wear a mask. Eliz Orban and her husband boarded the Newark-bound airplane with their child. While the parents were wearing face coverings and tried to get their daughter to wear one too, she refused. Through tears, […]
A major tide-turner of the pandemic seems to be on the horizon. Three FedEx, UPS, and Boyle Transportation semi-trucks left the Pfizer manufacturing plant on Sunday morning, carrying the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. The caravan of trucks—led and trailed by unmarked police cars—was met with cheers from local residents in Portage, Michigan upon their departure. “I’m proud […]
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department apprehended a man on Saturday after he successfully scaled the wing of an airplane as it prepared for departure. According to ABC, the incident took place in the afternoon at McCarran International Airport, as Alaska Airlines Flight 1367 from Las Vegas to Portland was getting ready for take-off. “Alaska […]
New York police arrested a driver accused of plowing through a group of protesters, the local NBC affiliate reports. Per the police, the incident took place on Friday at an intersection in Manhattan. At the time, there were around 40-50 protesters gathered in the street. They reportedly surrounded the driver’s car, frightening the woman. Authorities say […]
A Russian woman died after her iPhone fell in the tub while she was bathing, the Toronto Sun reports. Olesya Semenova was found dead by her roommate in their Arkhangelsk apartment. The woman tried to revive her before contacting emergency responders. “I screamed, shook her, but she was pale, not breathing, and showing no signs of […]
Federal prosecutors have filed additional charges against celebrity cheerleader Jerry Harris, according to a report from USA Today. Harris, who became famous through the Netflix docuseries Cheer, was arrested by the FBI back in September for producing child pornography. He now faces seven new counts that include receiving and attempting to receive child pornography and […]
As more and more Americans struggle to make ends meet in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of people have turned to shoplifting to address their need for bare necessities, like food and baby items, the Washington Post reports. “We’re seeing an increase in low-impact crimes,” Jeff Zisner, chief executive of workplace security firm Aegis, said. […]
A Florida man discovered human remains in a trash can that he had been storing for his friend in a mobile home park, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. According to the report, the man opened the trash can—which had been in his possession for over two months—after noticing a foul smell, and discovered a badly decomposing body inside that […]
A 26-year-old woman filed a lawsuit against her long-term boyfriend for failing to pop the big question. According to Kenyan news outlet Tuko, Gertrude Ngoma sued 28-year-old Herbert Salaliki because he had not proposed to her after eight years of dating. Ngoma told a Zambian that Salaliki—who is also the father of her child—had promised to put a ring on her […]
The sun recently launched a coronal mass ejection, or CME, which is described as “large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from its corona.” Putting that into simpler terms, CNN called it a “massive solar belch,” sending a mass of protons and electrons through the solar system. Check out a visual of it all below. This burst […]
