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Fortnite developer Epic Games and Microsoft’s Xbox raised $144 million over the course of two weeks for Ukrainian relief organizations, Deadline reports. The proceeds will be split between Direct Relief, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Refugee Agency, and the United Nations World Food Programme. Epic Games announced last month that all money made from March 20 through April 3 would […]
A man is facing federal charges after he allegedly masturbated multiple times during a recent flight on Southwest Airlines, The Daily Beast reports. Antonio Sherrodd McGarity is accused of pulling his pants down and masturbating in his seat while sitting next to a female passenger. The incident took place during an April 2 flight from Seattle to […]
A 60-year-old man in Germany allegedly received roughly 90 COVID-19 vaccines just to sell vaccination cards. The man, whose name has not been released, reportedly got his COVID-19 vaccination shots in the eastern state of Saxony, CBS News writes. This transpired “for months” until he was confronted by police over his ploy to sell the cards, which included authentic vaccine batch […]
The Ontario government is introducing legislation that will temporarily lower gas and fuel taxes. On Monday, Premier Doug Ford announced the proposed legislation. If passed, the gas tax will be cut by 5.7 cents a litre and fuel by 5.3 cents a litre for at least six months, starting July 1. The gas tax rate would […]
Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelensky, made a surprise appearance at this year’s Grammy Awards. The country’s leader shared a video message with the American people, before a performance by John Legend and talent from Ukraine like poet Lyuba Yakimchuk. During his speech, Zelensky asked “what’s more opposite to music,” as he compared “swooping rockets” and “shooting stars,” while sharing […]
A rowdy college party led to a number of medical emergencies in Santa Barbara County, California. The New York Post reports that the beach party in Isla Vista, called Deltopia, takes place every year during the first weekend when students come back from spring break. Thousands attend the illegal soirée, which first reportedly began in […]
Doug Kammerer isn’t just an award-winning reporter, he’s also a protective dad. While delivering a live weather report on NBC Washington, the network’s chief meteorologist received word that the National Weather Service had issued a tornado warning for the DC suburbs. Kammerer began to share details with the audience, before quickly realizing the tornado was on a […]
Authorities have arrested a third suspect in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Texas officer. According to KHOU11, 17-year-old Fredrick Tardy was taken into custody Friday on a capital murder charge. Police say the shooting took place Thursday night just outside of Houston, as Darren Almendarez—a deputy with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office—was shopping for groceries with his […]
Amazon workers on Staten Island have voted to unionize, thus making company history as the first such union in the U.S. Per a report from the Associated Press, more than 8,300 eligible Amazon workers in the borough cast ballots for the vote. By Friday afternoon, the report points out, “votes were still being tabulated” but supporters […]
The Metropolitan Police has announced that they will be issuing 20 fines for the people who attended parties held at No. 10 Downing Street and Whitehall during the COVID-19 restrictions. Confirming the fixed penalty notices in a statement today, the Met stated that “the investigations into allegations of breaches of COVID-19 regulations in Whitehall and Downing Street […]
