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A new cluster of COVID-19 cases has been detected in Arkansas after a group of high school students had a pool party. “A high school swim party that I’m sure everybody thought was harmless,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said of the gathering, according to Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson told the New York Post that though everybody likely […]
While most of the snow in Antarctica is white, snow found on its coast can be green—and as global temperatures rise, more green snow has been found across the continent. Small amounts of green snow have always been visible in Antarctica, which is caused by microscopic algae blooming on top of the snow, according to a […]
Over 150 firefighters are fighting to save a San Francisco pier from a four-alarm warehouse fire. A quarter of Pier 45, the pier at Fisherman’s Wharf, was “lost to the flames,” Lt. Jonathan Baxter, a public information officer with the San Francisco Fire Department, said per CNN. The warehouse was consumed in the fire. The […]
A Long Island man was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly stabbed and killed his elderly father during a Zoom video chat, police told The New York Times. Prosecutors said 72-year-old Dwight Powers was on a Zoom call with more than 20 people at his home in Amityville, New York when he was attacked by his son, Thomas Scully-Powers. The 32-year-old […]
A Cameroonian pastor and politician who claimed to have cured COVID-19 through faith has died from complications with the virus. 39-year-old Frankline Ndifor died on Saturday, Voice of America reports. Dr. Gaelle Nnanga told Voice of America that one of Ndifor’s followers called him to the home on the day of his death. When he arrived, he found the […]
Two of the charges in R. Kelly‘s federal case—one of which being that he knowingly gave a woman herpes —will not be dropped, according to the judge’s decision. Kelly is currently being tried for several criminal accounts including sex-trafficking, racketeering, and coercion related to six women and girls amongst many others. The R&B singer’s defense tried to claim […]
Denzel Washington was spotted helping a homeless man in West Hollywood on Thursday. According to a report from TMZ on the inarguably kind move of compassion, Washington was driving in West Hollywood on Thursday afternoon when he passed the man in question in the street and “in some peril with oncoming traffic.” Per the report, […]
Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, mayor of Tantará, a small town in Peru, was hanging out with friends drinking on Monday night when police arrived to enforce a country-wide lockdown. To avoid being detained for curfew and social distancing violations due to COVID-19, an inebriated Torres pretended to be dead while his friends did the more logical thing of hiding in nearby drawers, the New […]
A new study shows that if the U.S. had enforced social distancing guidelines one week earlier in March, around 36,000 fewer people would have died from COVID-19. The research comes from Columbia University disease modelers who say if the country had started issuing lockdowns on March 1, two weeks before many stay-at-home orders had taken effect, […]
This month, Common Ace—a new online marketplace—launched with the aim of providing women a uniquely curated opportunity to “access and shop seamlessly” thanks to a more targeted approach to the usual model of online shopping. Common Ace was founded by leading streetwear community voice and global advisor Sophia Chang and Romy Samuel, an avid collector who currently […]
