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A 53-year-old Michigan landlord turned himself into police on Thursday, Oct. 15, after allegedly killing a pair of tenants over a long-standing series of disputes. That landlord, Chad Reed, reportedly confessed to killing 31-year-old Jaclyn Lepird and her boyfriend 34-year-old Joseph Soule. Both Lepird and Soule had been considered missing persons since Oct. 12. Battle Creek, […]
Amy Coney Barrett, Trump‘s pick to succeed the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the Supreme Court, spells potential trouble for a multitude of reasons impossible to overstate. Earlier this month, for example, Lambda Legal—the largest national legal organization with a mission focused on securing and maintaining “full recognition” of civil rights for LGBTQ people—published an […]
Confirmed COVID-19 cases have now surpassed a global total of 40 million. While the actual number of cases around the world is believed to be significantly higher due to a variety of factors, the latest number comes from the team at Johns Hopkins University, who—per the Associated Press’ update on Monday—is now reporting 40,088,893 confirmed cases. Last week, analysis […]
The 80th annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will go down in infamy as a “superspreader event” that led to hundreds of thousands COVID-19 cases spanning several states and cost billions of dollars for public health care agencies. It was the nearly two-week event in August that drew half a million attendees, some of whom saw Smash Mouth frontman Steve […]
A Texas teenager was awarded tens of thousands of dollars for developing a potential cure for COVID-19. Fourteen-year-old Anika Chebrolu, a freshman at Independence High School in Frisco, was named the winner of this year’s 3M Young Scientist Challenge and received a $25,000 award. Anika said she entered the challenge while in eighth grade with the initial intention […]
Chadwick Boseman, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016, died in August without a will. Now his wife Taylor Simone Ledward has filed a probate case in Los Angeles, where she requested to be named administrator of his estate with limited authority, Page Six reports. Boseman’s estate is estimated to be valued at $938,500. The court docs […]
As if 2020 needed anymore regrettable recognition, a new study has determined that last month was the hottest September ever, besting the previous high, which was set just last year, the New York Times reports. The Copernicus Climate Change Service found that last month topped the average for September 2019 by 0.05 degrees Celsius. Another organization known […]
There are certain things you can get away with in this country if you aren’t a minority, like say, assault a police officer while he’s trying to make an arrest. In June, police were called to the home of New York State Supreme Court Justice Mark J. Grisanti and his wife Maria Grisanti in Buffalo, New York because the […]
Stacey Abrams and an assortment of athletes and artists from the More Than a Vote coalition have linked up to launch a new animated video focused on the history of voting and the multitude of possible ways to be involved with the 2020 presidential election. “Fair Fight Action is happy to partner with the athletes and […]
Jay-Z‘s Team Roc, Until Freedom, and The Gathering for Justice have organized a rally in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin on Thursday, Oct. 15 as a call for justice for Alvin Cole, who was shot and killed by Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah in February. According to a press release, organizers and speakers—like Cole’s family, State Rep. David Bowen, and […]
