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At least nine people have been charged for allegedly organizing a massive—and illegal—Halloween party in Brooklyn. According to the New York City Sheriff’s Office, deputies determined more than 387 people attended the event hosted at a warehouse near East Williamsburg. Authorities, who busted the party at around 1 a.m. Saturday, say the rager’s size violated the city and […]
A devastating earthquake ravished the coast of Turkey and the Greek island of Samos on Saturday. Per CBS News, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the Aegean Sea near the coast of Turkey. The natural disaster rumbled cities, collapsing buildings, and triggering a tsunami that flooded Western Turkey. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency claims that the earthquake injured more than 700 people […]
Lori Loughlin began her jail sentence in a federal prison in California on Friday. The Huffington Post reports that she’s set to serve a two-month sentence for her role in the college admissions cheating scheme. “The parties recently agreed that the defendant can report to prison on October 30, 2020, instead of on November 19, […]
On the latest episode of Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson, the boxer confronted Boosie over his history of homophobia and transphobia in a heated conversation. Boosie made headlines earlier this year after he made deeply offensive comments about Dwyane Wade’s transgender daughter, Zaya Wade. “Why do you say things about people who might be a homosexual?” Tyson […]
A new report from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy indicates that a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid called Apophis may pass very close to Earth in 2068. While tracking the asteroid, which is named after the Egyptian god of chaos, scientists found it has sped up due to an orbital process called the Yarkovsky effect. “The new […]
Donald Trump Jr., a self-described “outdoorsman” and son of a failed steak salesman, thinks that 1,000 Americans dying represents an example of “almost nothing.” In an interview with (who else?) Fox News, Trump Jr. again echoed his father’s pandemic approach of downplaying the virus while also disrespecting the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have already […]
Walmart has pulled guns and ammo from store shelves and displays on the sales floors of its U.S. fleet of stores. Customers hell-bent on buying guns and/or ammo from select Walmart locations that typically sell such things will still be able to do so, per the Wall Street Journal‘s report on the move from Thursday […]
Paul Rudd made the early voting experience a little more bearable—and much more memorable—for a group of New Yorkers. On Thursday morning, the 51-year-old Ant-Man star was spotted in Brooklyn handing out cookies to those waiting in long lines to hit the polls. Several Twitter users documented the surprise appearance with photos and videos, showing Rudd […]
A New York City man is recovering at the hospital after falling through a sinkhole on a Bronx sidewalk, and winding up in a pit filled with rats, NBC New York reports. Leonard Shoulders, 33, was waiting for the bus across the street from Saint Barnabas Hospital Saturday when the sidewalk collapsed beneath him. Surveillance footage […]
Joe Rogan has defended his decision to again give a platform to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Jones, considered by the Southern Poverty Law Center an “extremist” who is “almost certainly the most prolific conspiracy theorist” in present-day America, was recently a guest on Rogan’s podcast. During the three-hour discussion, which also included conservative-leaning comedian Tim Dillon, Jones […]
