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Andrew Yang is calling out the New York Daily News over cartoon that many have criticized as racist. The controversy stemmed from a recent episode of Ziwe’s Showtime series in which she asked Yang to name his favorite subway station in the Big Apple. “It’s my stop, so Time Square,” said the NYC’s mayoral candidate. “It’s big. […]
A man who was reported missing hours earlier was found dead Saturday inside the leg of a dinosaur statue in a town near Barcelona, Spain, The Guardian reports. A father and son alerted authorities when they noticed something inside the papier-mâché stegosaurus in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Officers called upon local firefighters to cut the dinosaur’s leg in an […]
A drug dealer’s “love of Stilton cheese” proved to be his undoing when police were able to identify him based on a photo he shared on what he believed to be an encrypted messaging service, CNN reports. Carl Stewart, 39, of Liverpool, was sentenced Friday to 13 years and six months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to […]
A startling new poll finds that over half of Republican voters incorrectly consider Donald Trump to be the “true President,” nearly five months after he half-heartedly conceded the 2020 election. In a Ipsos/Reuters poll released Friday, just over 2,000 U.S. adults from differing political parties were asked about their feelings towards the election results, the methods of voting, namely the absentee […]
The Texas Senate approved a measure Monday which would eliminate a previous requirement that residents needed to obtain a license in order to carry a handgun, Star Tribune reports. The bill, which passed 17-13 in the Senate, will now be sent to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has already stated that he intends on signing the proposal. “I support […]
President Biden’s latest budget will reportedly not include forgiveness for student loan debt. In previous news on the combination of Biden and student loans, the then-presidential-candidate had campaigned on his support of wiping out $10,000 of undergrad/grad student debt per year of national or community service, up to five years and $50K. After winning the election […]
A recent graduate, Blake Wolfe of Ohio’s Westlake high school, made it all the way from kindergarten through the day he donned a mortarboard without missing a single day of school. We tip our caps. Doing the math on what that entailed, WJW writes that Wolfe’s stretch covered about 2,184 school days, give or take […]
A Springfield, Massachusetts woman who accidentally threw away a $1 million lottery ticket was able to collect her winnings after the store owners were kind enough to track her down, People reports. Per the Massachusetts State Lottery, Lea Rose Fiega won $1 million in the state’s “Diamond Millions” instant game on March 30, a pre-tax cash prize she […]
It’s been almost a year since George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, and Floyd’s family made sure to honor George at a Sunday gathering in Minneapolis. Joined by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, family attorney Benjamin Crump and Rev. Al Sharpton, Floyd’s sister, Bridgett, spoke about the changes in her family’s […]
Nearly 50 percent of all adults in the U.S. are now fully vaccinated. This stat, among other notable milestones, is included in the latest update from the CDC regarding nationwide vaccination data. 49.6 percent of the U.S. population 18 years of age and older are now fully vaccinated, while 61.3 percent of all adults have […]
