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Don’t confuse this with bragging, but Canada has been crushing it in the pandemic Olympics lately. Daily-infection case records are being broken in provinces from Ontario to Quebec to B.C., and the country just registered its highest new infections figure of 14,456 on Wednesday, Dec. 22, according to Global News’ tally. Today in Ontario, where […]
Travis Scott is bringing some holiday cheer to the city that raised him. According to the multiple outlets, the rapper’s Cactus Jack Foundation hosted its second annual toy drive on Thursday, providing more than 5,000 gifts to children across Houston. The non-profit shared photos from the event on social media, highlighting some of the toys—including bikes, dolls, golf sets, […]
Shortly after word was made public that an “outcome” had been reached by a Minneapolis jury in the trial of Kim Potter on Thursday, Hennepin County Judge Regina M. Chu announced that the white former police officer is guilty on both charges, first-degree manslaughter and second-degree manslaughter. Potter will now face up to 15 years in prison, […]
A California woman who punched a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face pleaded guilty this week to a felony charge. Vyvianna M. Quinonez, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to interfering with a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. Per plea agreement admissions cited in a DOJ-shared press release, Quinonez was a passenger on […]
Vinod Menon walked into his department’s office and was greeted by a pile of mail. Menon, a professor and chair of physics at the City College of New York, returned to the school on Sept. 1 following a lengthy period of at-home learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What stood out among the many letters was […]
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has been ordered by a court to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in a divorce settlement that’s among the largest in British history. Per an Associated Press report on the latest surrounding the divorce, a November ruling made public this week saw a High Court judge stating that […]
A family in Pennsylvania is speaking out after the death of their 10-year-old daughter, who is reported to have participated in the Blackout Challenge on TikTok. In short, the challenge—which has appeared in a number of headlines this year—is built around the idea of intentionally losing consciousness. 10-year-old Nyla, per a regional report from WPVI-TV, died earlier this month […]
A Muskogee, Oklahoma sixth-grader was on his Marvel superhero mode after he saved his fellow classmate from choking and helped a woman get out of a burning home on the same day. According to KTUL, Davyon Johnson had a very memorable day on Dec. 9 when he performed the Heimlich maneuver on one of his classmates who […]
Marking the implementation of something that should have been carried out much sooner, at least immediately upon the former VP taking office, the Biden administration said Tuesday that it would distribute half a billion at-home COVID-19 tests amid Omicron variant concerns. In a statement shared early Tuesday morning ahead of a planned address to the […]
TW: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault. A man who was previously reported to have been arrested in connection with the deaths of model Christy Giles and architect Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola has been charged with sexually assaulting four other women. Per a recent news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, David Brian […]
