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Two people were fatally shot and a third was wounded in Atlanta on Monday afternoon. Police arrested a woman at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where they also recovered the firearm that was used. A 60-year-old man, Michael Shinners, was killed at a condo building in Midtown, where the non-fatally wounded, yet-to-be-identified victim was also found and […]
A 52-year-old taxi driver in New York City died this week after he was attacked by a group of people who didn’t pay their fare. News 12 reports the altercation happened just before 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13 in the Edgemere neighborhood of the Bronx, near Beach 54th Street and Arverne Boulevard. Police released footage of the […]
A Chicago officer faces felony charges after he was filmed pinning a 14-year-old boy to the ground with his knee. According to CNN, the incident occurred in Park Ridge, Illinois, last month, when Chicago police sergeant Michael Vitellaro wrongly accused the teen of stealing his son’s bike. Vitellaro reportedly learned that the bicycle had been stolen at a library and later spotted […]
Three people were killed when two small planes collided mid-air in California on Thursday. CBS News reports the accident took place before 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the Watsonville Municipal Airport in Watsonville, California–a city located about 50 miles south of San Jose. A twin-engine Cessna 340 crashed into a single-engine Cessna 152. One person […]
The world’s second-largest theater chain is apparently headed toward bankruptcy. According to the Wall Street Journal, Regal Cinemas owner Cineworld Group is preparing to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States and insolvency in the United Kingdom. “People familiar with the matter” say the London-based exhibitor has struggled to recover losses from the pandemic, […]
Planet earth is getting very close to reaching a population of 8 billion human beings. While eight billion people sounds like a lot of fucking people, and it undeniably is, there is quite clearly some division among population-focused researchers and related experts on whether or not the rate we’ve seen in recent decades will continue. […]
A Black couple is taking legal action after their home appraisal increased nearly $300,000 because of race. According to the New York Times, Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott filed the housing discrimination lawsuit in Maryland District Court on Monday—about a year after they applied to refinance their mortgage with loanDepot. Connolly, a professor at John Hopkins University, says he and his […]
A woman in India allegedly chopped off the penis of her boyfriend after he tried to rape her 14-year-old daughter. The unidentified mother recalled seeing a quarrel and confronting the man inside the home they shared together. “I was working in the farm when the incident took place,” she told the Times of India. “Fortunately, I returned home in […]
A Black mother filed a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter after she discovered her elementary school created a cotton field to get students to “identify with the real-life experience of African American slaves,” per the Los Angeles Times. In her suit, Rashunda Pitts alleges she dropped off her now-14-year-old daughter, referred to in court documents as […]
A Mississippi man was arrested on Monday for trying to pocket more than one of the 15 bricks of cocaine that washed ashore over the weekend. Biloxi police announced that Joey Lee Ware, 37, has been charged with aggravated trafficking of controlled substances after he was found with a brick and a half of coke plastered with a Dior label, drawing a connection between […]
