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As the coronavirus sweeps through the nation’s correctional facilities, New York City has provided inmates at Rikers with a way to occupy their time. Officials told the New York Daily News on Friday that thousands of inmates were given off-brand handheld gaming devices similar to a Nintendo Game Boy. In March, the city used taxpayers’ dollars […]
An Alabama man was arrested Thursday after allegedly trespassing on Walt Disney World property. According to USA Today, Orange County officers found 43-year-old Richard McGuire camping on Discovery Island, which has remained abandoned for two decades. Authorities reportedly searched the theme park by foot, boat, and helicopter before they discovered McGuire sleeping in one of the island’s buildings. Though police […]
About a month before coronavirus was declared a pandemic, President Donald Trump publicly theorized the deadly disease would “miraculously” go away once the weather heats up. “And by the way, the virus, they’re working hard, looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away,” Trump said during New […]
An Illinois surgery technician died from coronavirus just days before he was scheduled to retire. According to the Chicago Tribune, Juan Martinez tested positive for this disease on April 17, after he and his son, Juan Martinez Jr., began exhibiting symptoms around his 60th birthday in mid-April. Martinez Sr., who had worked as a surgical tech for 34 […]
As we pointed out last month just as COVID-19 problems here in the States were starting to finally be taken with seriousness by a presumed majority, an under-discussed facet of the novel coronavirus‘ impact became strikingly clear, i.e. its very real effects on the sex work industry at large. Resourcefully, strip clubs in progressive-minded cities like Portland […]
The unemployment rate continues to hit stunning new heights. Another 3.8 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the week ending April 25, NPR reports. Though that’s a decline from the prior week’s 4.4 million, a total of 30.3 million people have now filed for unemployment in the six weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic began […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis has laid out a plan Wednesday to reopen Florida amid the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came just one day after the state tallied an additional 83 COVID-19 deaths, marking its biggest spike in daily fatalities since the crisis began. The governor told reporters Florida will enter “phase 1” of reopening its economy starting Monday, but […]
A couple who had been together for 73 years died this week due after both being diagnosed with COVID-19. “Our family lost the glue that holds us together,” Natalie Lameka, the granddaughter of the couple—Mary and Wilford Kepler—told WTMJ TV. She added that the deaths were “definitely hard” but “bittersweet.” Wilford died on Saturday, followed six […]
A pug named Winston has become the first known U.S. canine to test positive for the novel coronavirus. According to WRAL, the virus was detected this month during a study at Duke University. Winston’s owners, the McLean family, participated in the school’s coronavirus research study at the beginning of April, after the parents began exhibiting mild symptoms in mid-March. Researchers determined […]
Getro Gelin, 27, had an interesting answer when he was questioned by police about the Glock 21 pistol, semi-automatic rifle, and bulletproof kevlar vest they found after searching his Porsche SUV in Port St. Lucie, Florida. They apparently belonged to John Wick, the fictional and highly skilled assassin that Keanu Reeves plays in the popular film franchise that’s […]
