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NASA has detected that an asteroid will come daringly close to Earth, though it won’t hit our planet. According to a press release from the space agency, the asteroid is roughly “the size of a box truck… is predicted to make one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded.” The asteroid, called […]
As expected, a behemothic iceberg roughly twice the size of New York City has broken off in Antarctica. As NASA Earth Observatory made clear earlier this week, however, this isn’t actually a cause for concern. In fact, as British Antarctic Survey glaciologist Dominic Hodgson said, there is no link between this iceberg and the ongoing (and […]
According to a lawsuit, the tiny mini-bottles of Fireball Cinnamon sold at gas stations and grocery stores don’t have any whiskey in them, and instead, merely contain “whiskey flavor.” Per The Washington Post, the suit, filed by Anna Marquez on Jan. 7 in the United States District Court Northern District Of Illinois, accuses the brand’s […]
A former prison correctional officer was arrested on Wednesday in Hawaii and faces criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of multiple female inmates. Mikael Rivera, 45, of Kapolei, Hawaii, served as a correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu from 2014 to 2018, and during his time at the facility allegedly “committed multiple sexual […]
A Florida woman has been arrested and indicted in connection with the alleged scamming of a Holocaust survivor out of millions of dollars in savings. “Today we allege the defendant callously preyed on a senior citizen simply seeking companionship, defrauding him of his life savings,” FBI Assistant Director Michael J. Driscoll said in a news […]
A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging two former Arkansas deputies with civil rights violations in connection with the violent and widely criticized August 2021 arrest of Randal Worcester. Per the indictment, available here, Levi White and Zackary King—both formerly of the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department—both “willfully deprived” Worcester of his constitutional right […]
A Kansas man is dead after being shot in an incident police claim was the result of a dog stepping on a gun. Per a regional report from KSN-TV citing information provided by the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office, the fatal shooting in question occurred in the morning hours on Monday, although initially available details on […]
A lawyer representing a defendant in the YSL RICO case says her client was assaulted by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office’s Scorpion Unit this week. Speaking with WSB-TV, as seen below, Angela D’Williams said that her client—identified as Rodalius Ryan—was injured during the alleged assault, which is said to have occurred during a court transport. […]
Two students were killed and another person is in critical condition after a shooting at a Des Moines school on Monday. According to the Des Moines Register, the incident occurred shortly before 1 p.m. at Starts Right Here, an educational mentorship program affiliated with the city’s school district, which focuses on helping at-risk youth in grades 9-12. When officers arrived […]
Three British men—Thomas James, 21, Luke Gibson, 21, and Simon Parker, 29—have been sent to prison after officers discovered £10,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis inside a tumble dryer. The drug-dealing trio pleaded guilty to drug dealing while appearing at Chester Crown Court last week, The Metro reports. The court heard how the investigation team identified a graft […]
