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The first family kept things pretty traditional when it came to their Thanksgiving dinner. On Thursday night, the White House released President Joe Biden’s turkey day menu, which listed 10 staple food items, nearly half of which were desserts. The menu included thyme-roasted turkey, “Grandmom Jacobs’ savory stuffing,” classic turkey gravy, roasted vegetables, and cranberry relish, along with apple, […]
Jamal Hinton and “Grandma” Wanda Dench spent Thanksgiving together for the sixth time since their accidental encounter via text in 2016. “Thanksgiving 2021,” Hinton wrote on Instagram, accompanied by a photo taken on the holiday each of the last six years. “6 years strong.” In Nov. 2016, Dench sent a text message about coming over […]
Dollar Tree announced Tuesday that the company will increase the price of most of its products to $1.25 by the end of the first quarter of 2022, NBC News reports. Vince Staples weighed in Dollar Tree’s decision, and didn’t seem happy with how the company chose to go “against the grain.” According to CNN Business, […]
Global warming may be putting a serious strain on albatrosses’ relationships. According to a recent study published by New Zealand’s Royal Society, the famously monogamous birds are separating at higher rates as water temperatures rise. The study points out that 90 percent of bird species remain with the same partner throughout their lives, and only “divorce” […]
NASA, in the agency’s own words, is “crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid…on purpose.” On Wednesday at approximately 1:21 a.m. ET, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. But what, exactly, is DART? In short, it’s the first planetary defense test mission, the […]
The families of the victims of the 2018 Parkland shooting have just reached a settlement with the Justice Department after suing the FBI for negligence in not preventing the attack after they got an anonymous tip warning them of the shooter, Nikolas Cruz. According to NBC News, the families initially sued the FBI after they […]
Eddie Redmayne now says it was “a mistake” to take on the role of Lili Elbe in the 2015 drama The Danish Girl. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times, the actor—who was nominated for an Oscar for the performance—was asked about the role. Surrounding the initial 2015 release and ensuing awards-centered conversations, the film […]
Police last week seized roughly 500,000 pounds of marijuana during a single drug bust in southern Oregon’s Jackson County, CNN reports. The Oregon State Police Southwest Region (OSP) Drug Enforcement Section team announced in a news release Saturday that a search warrant at five industrial-sized warehouses in White City, OR turned up 250 tons of illegal marijuana with an estimated […]
Hundreds of Starbucks customers in New Jersey are being told to get vaccinated against Hepatitis A after an employee was found to have worked while infected. According to the Camden County Department of Health, officials were notified last Wednesday that a Starbucks employee in Clementon, NJ tested positive for hepatitis A earlier this month and may have […]
Dozens of looters descended onto a Nordstrom location in downtown Walnut Creek, California Saturday night, ransacking the store and terrorizing shoppers. As reported by KPIX 5, Walnut Creek Lt. Ryan Hibbs told the outlet that around 80 people swarmed the Nordstrom store starting at 9 p.m. One witness at a nearby P. F. Chang’s told the outlet that a massive […]
